Chapter 62OrdV.1.62
Virtutes
The Good Shepherd Seeks the Lost
The Virtues comfort the soul with the image of the good shepherd who actively searches for his lost sheep.
Don't be afraid, and don't run away, because the good shepherd is searching for you, the lost sheep that belongs to him.✦
Read the original Latin
Noli timere nec fugere, quia pastor bonus querit in te perditam ovem suam.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Luke.15.4-Luke.15.6;John.10.11-John.10.14 — Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it? Luke.15.5 — And when he finds it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. Luke.15.6 — And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' John.10.11 — I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John.10.12 — The hired hand, who is not the shepherd—the sheep are not his own—sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches them and scatters them. John.10.13 — The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep. John.10.14 — I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me.
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
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