Querela Animarum in came positarum
The Lament of Pilgrim Souls
Souls confess their pilgrim state, mourn their straying into sin, and lament the loss of their royal dignity.
Look at us — we are pilgrims. What have we done, straying into sin? We should have been daughters of the King, but we fell into the shadow of sins.
Cry for the Living Sun
The souls plead to be carried back to their lost inheritance and to share in the King's battle.
O living Sun, carry us on your shoulders into the most righteous inheritance that we lost in Adam! O King of kings, in your battle we fight.
Read the original Latin
O nos peregrine sumus. Quid fecimus, ad peccata deviantes? Filie Regis esse debuimus, sed in umbram peccatorum cecidimus. O vivens sol, porta nos in humeris tuis in iustissimam hereditatem quam in Adam perdidimus! O rex regum, in tuo prelio pugnamus.
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.
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