Penitens Animo ad Virtutes
Penitent's Plea for Mercy
A wounded sinner begs the heavenly host for the grace to rise again through the blood of Christ.
I am a sinner who fled from life: full of wounds I come to you, so that you might offer me the shield of redemption. O you, the whole army of the Queen, and O you, her white lilies with crimson hue, bend down to me, because as a stranger I have been an exile from you, and help me, so that in the blood of the Son of God I may rise again.
Read the original Latin
Ego peccator qui fugi vitam: plenus ulceribus veniam ad vos, ut prebeatis michi scutum redemptionis. O tu omnis milicia regine, et o vos, candida lilia ipsius, cum rosea purpura, inclinate vos ad me, quia peregrina a vobis exulavi, et adiuvate me, ut in sanguine filii dei possim surgere.
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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