The document outlines a meeting for the Oblates of Saint Scholastica Monastery, which included prayers, announcements, and discussions focused on saints, particularly Hildegard of Bingen. It details events scheduled for November, including lectures, ceremonies, and communal meals, and highlights the significance of the liturgical year and the communion of saints. Hildegard's life and contributions to mysticism, theology, and music are also summarized, alongside her eventual canonization.

1. Hildegard
of Bingen
and other
Holy Benedictines
http://forallsaints.wordpress.com/20
11/09/17/hildegard-abbess-of-bingen-
and-mystic-1179/
Saint Scholastica Monastery Oblate Meeting
Sister Edith Bogue & Sister Paule Pierre Barbeau
November 9, 2014

2. Horarium
• Midday Prayer
• Announcements
• Conference
– Saints in November, the Rule, and our tradition
– Hildegard of Bingen
– Communion of Saints
• Break for the needs of nature
• Coffee and Discussion: Your holy Benedictines

3. Announcements
• Sister Simone Campbell, Attorney, Poet, and Activist
– 2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10: Coffee, dessert,
and discussion with Sister Simone and the Sisters
– 5:15 p.m. - 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10: Vespers
– 12 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: Lecture: "Catholic
Intellectual Tradition in the Streets," Mitchell Auditorium
– 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: "Joy in the Gospel:
Acting for Justice in a Turbulent World" in Mitchell
• Christmas Sale – helpers & customers needed
• Oblation Ceremony – December 14 at 3pm
– Reception follows the ceremony.

4. November
• All Saints Day – celebrate the
saints, known and unknown.
• All Souls Day – commemorate
and pray for all who have died,
especially this year.
• Liturgical year – scriptures of
end times, judgment, eternity,
and hope of life with Christ.
The Communion of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Agnes, Bede, Alphonsus Ligouri, John Neumann Tapestry Nine, North
Wall The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. http://www.johnnava.com/JNS%20Archive/COS/nw09.htm

5. Saints in
Benedict’s Rule
• Ch 14: Liturgy on
feasts of saints.
• Ch 58: God and
the saints hear
the promises of the new member – and those
promises are made “in the name of the saints
whose relics are there…”
• Ch 73: “there are the teachings of the holy
Fathers… what else are these … than
instruments of virtue?”
http://blogs.nd.edu/oblation/2014/10/09
/say-what-you-really-mean-the-common-language-of-the-church/

6. Saints in the Monastic Tradition
• Elisha asking for a share of
the spirit of his teacher
Elijah, takes up his mantle
• Desert Abbas and Ammas
kept & treasured the words
of their teachers.
• Monasteries venerated
saints; many Benedictine
saints in the old calendar.

7. The Many Faces of the Saints
Tapestries of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, from Hartford Catholic Bible School
http://bjdhorehartford.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-bible-study-john-129-34.html

8. Hildegard
of Bingen
http://forallsaints.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/hildegard-abbess-of-bingen-and-mystic-1179/

9. Early Life
• b. 1098, Bermersheim
• Youngest of 10 children
• Family of free lower nobility
• In the service of the Count Meginhard of
Sponheim)
• Sickly from birth
• Experienced visions at a very young age
• 8 y old entrusted Jutta (anchoress)
• 14 y old entered Disibodenberg monastery
• Jutta & Volmar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermersheim

10. Disibodenberg Monastery
http://www.deutscheweine.de/icc/Internet-EN/nav/ac4/ac470693-6826-7e21-e66b-
48554c41ed8b&_ic_uCon=1ce6006c-3d07-0f21-c79b-27a504c41ed8

11. Disibodenberg Monastery
http://www.deutscheweine.de/icc/Internet-EN/nav/ac4/ac470693-6826-7e21-e66b-
48554c41ed8b&_ic_uCon=1ce6006c-3d07-0f21-c79b-27a504c41ed8

12. Visionary Theology
• 1136 Jutta died
– Hildegard - magistra (38 y)
• 1141 Vision “Speak and write”
– Resisted the call at first
– Scivias (Know the Ways)
– (describes 26 religious visions)
– 10 y (1142-1151)
– Includes artwork, songs, and an
opera (Ordo Virtutum)
Illumination from Scivias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Hildegard_of_Bingen
• 1147 Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Eugene III

13. Scivias
1st Vision
of the
First Part
God; Illumination of the First Vision of the First Part of the Scivias
http://www.hildegardadebingen.com.ar/Scivias_1_1a.htm

14. Foundations
• 1148 Vision calling her to move her convent
1150 Founded monastery Rupertsberg
• 1165 Founded monastery Eibingen
• A Bermersheim
• B Disiboden
• C Rupertsberg
• D Eibingen

15. Rupertsberg
http://www.hildegard.org/wirk/erupert.html

16. Eibingen
http://jaxstumpes.blogspot.com/2014/05/rhine-getaway-cruising-rhine-4212014.html

17. Visionary Theology
• 1158-63 Liber Vitae Meritorum
(Book of the Rewards of Life)
• Dramatic confrontation
between virtues and vices
• One of the earliest depictions
of purgatory where soul works
off its debt in order to enter
heaven
• Practical guide to life of true
penance and proper virtue
• Moral and pastoral work http://www.abtei-st-hildegard.de/?page_id=153

18. Preaching Journeys
• 1158 Vision
– visit communities
• 1158-1171
– 4 journeys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

19. Visionary Theology
• 1163/4-1172/74
• Liber divinorum operum
(Book of Divine Works)
• 10 visions
• Creation, salvation, exegesis
of John 1, Revelation
http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/12_High-Medieval/Hildegard/Hildegard.htm

20. Other Writings
• Medicine (Causae et Curae, Physica)
• Lives of Saints Disibod and Rupert
• Commentaries on Rule of Benedict and
Athanasian Creed
• Expositiones Evangeliorum
• Litterae ignotae
• Poetry
• 300+ letters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Ignota

21. Music
• Symphonia harmonie
caelestium
revelationum
– 1140’s began composing
– ~ 1175 Symphonia
– liturgical cycle with
antiphons, responsories,
sequences, hymns, a
kyrie and an alleluia,
including references to
the appropriate feasts
‘O gloriosissimi’, antiphon from Hildegard of Bingen's
‘Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum’, c1163–1175
(Dendermonde Abbey, MS 9)
[Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and Paul]
http://www.mifami.org/eLibrary/Hildegard_of_Bingen-
Grove_Music-Article.htm

22. Later Life
• 1178 Interdict
– Lifted March 1179
• d. Sep. 17, 1179 (~90 y)
• 1233 Pope Gregory IX
– Proceedings for canonization
– Failed
• Canonized May 10, 2012
– Pope Benedict XVI
http://swissdefenceleague.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/hildegard-of-bingen-visionary/

23. http://symphonialisestanima.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/23/

24. St. Hildegard of Bingen, OSB
• Theologian
• Philosopher
• Poet
• Musician
• Writer
• Mystic
• Visionary
• Prophet
• Physician
• Abbess
• Polymath
Marcy Hall
http://rabbitroomarts.blogspot.com/

25. Ordo Virtutum
Ordo Virtutum Text

26. Other
Holy Benedictines

27. The Communion of Saints
Twelve untitled figures, including children of all ages,
represent the many anonymous holy people in our midst.
Tapestries of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, from Hartford Catholic Bible School
http://bjdhorehartford.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-bible-study-john-129-34.html

28. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - José Rafael Moneo
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/405605510164167205/
Living with Saints
 Liturgical calendar or
prayer books with
lives of saints
 Live & learn with one
for weeks or months
(James Martin, SJ: My
Life with the Saints)
 Traditional patrons for
work, family, need.
 Be alert to the saints
God sends your way.

29. Calendars of Saints & Seasons
• Catholic:
http://www.usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/
index.cfm
• Lutheran :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_Saints_(Lutheran)
• Episcopal:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/lectionary-calendar

30. "All the Saints are our older brothers in the one
House of the Heavenly Father. Having gone
from earth to heaven, they are always with us
in God....
They serve together with us, they sing, they
speak, they instruct, they help us in various
temptations
and sorrows.
Call upon them as living with you under a
single roof; glorify them, thank them, converse
with them
as with living people; and you will believe in

31. Hildegard
of Bingen
and other
Holy Benedictines
Saint Scholastica Monastery Oblate Meeting
Sister Edith Bogue & Sister Paule Pierre Barbeau
November 9, 2014