Chapter 70OrdV.1.70
Humilitas
The Physician's Bitter Love
Humility tenderly embraces the wretched daughter, pointing to the great physician who suffered harsh and bitter things for her sake.
O wretched daughter, I want to embrace you, because a great physician has suffered harsh and bitter things for your sake.
Read the original Latin
O misera filia, volo te amplecti, quia magnus medicus dura et amara propter te passus est.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
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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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