Chapter 35OrdV.1.35
Spes
The Undimmed Gaze of Hope
Hope declares itself as the soul's living, discerning eye that no darkness or deceit can blind.
I am the sweet beholder of the living eye, whom deceitful numbness cannot trick — so you, O darknesses, cannot cloud me over.
Read the original Latin
Ego sum dulcis conspectrix viventis oculi, quam fallax torpor non decipit – unde vos, o tenebre, non potestis me obnubilare.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
Chosen Portion walks you through the whole Ordo Virtutum — and Hildegard's Scivias — as free daily devotionals.
The Ordo was performed scene by scene by Hildegard's nuns, and Chosen Portion restores that rhythm — one scene of the Virtues' drama as each day's devotional.
- The complete 84-scene drama, one short scene per day, in modern readable English
- Each portion pairs the scene with its Scripture echoes — 26 references resolved across the play
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