Castitas
Chastity's Defiant Purity
Chastity rejects the defilement of incestuous suggestion and proclaims the redemptive birth of Christ who gathers humanity against corruption.
How could this touch me — what your suggestion pollutes through the filth of incest? I brought forth one man, who gathers the human race to himself against you — through his birth.
Read the original Latin
Quomodo posset me hoc tangere quod tua suggestio polluit per immundiciam incestus? Unum virum protuli, qui genus humanum ad se congregat contra te; per nativitatem suam.
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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