XXIV. O vos felices radices (De patriarchis et prophetis)
Rejoice in Your Head
Hildegard calls the happy roots and the fiery voice to rejoice in Christ, the unseen Head whom the patriarchs and prophets loved with burning hearts.
Response: O you happy roots, with whom is the work of miracles and not the work of crimes, planted clearly through the torrent-way in the shadow, and O you fiery voice, running ahead, sharpening the stone, overturning the abyss: Rejoice in your Head. Verse: Rejoice in him whom many did not see in the lands, who called upon him with burning hearts: Rejoice in your Head.✦
Read the original Latin
Responsum: O vos felices radices, cum quibus opus miraculorum, et non opus criminum, per torrens iter perspicue umbre plantatum est, et o tu ruminams ignea vox precurrens limantem lapidem, subvertentem abyssum: Gaudete in capite vestro. Versus: Gaudete in illo, quem non viderunt in terris multi, qui ipsum ardenter vocaverunt: Gaudete in capite vestro.
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Pet.1.8 — Though you have not seen him, you love him; and though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy.
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