Virtutes

The Heavenly City in Bloom

The soul is invited to see itself as a living part of the heavenly Jerusalem, blossoming among the lilies of purity.

You're part of the building of the heavenly Jerusalem, blooming among white lilies.^✦^✦

Read the original Latin

Tu es in edificatione celestis Ierusalem, florens in candidis liliis.

Scripture echoes

↩Song.2.1-Song.2.2 — I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys. Song.2.2 — As a lily among thorns, so is my beloved among the daughters.
↩Rev.21.2 — And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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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