Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Sibyl of the Rhine

 Today is the feast of St. Hildegard von Bingen, Virgin and Doctor of the Church. From The Book of Divine Works:

God's power is joined to the supreme strength that consists in the perfection of shining justice, for God's power and strength cleave to one another. God's power indeed is rounded by balanced equality, because it lacks beginning and end.... For no mutability, no vicissitude touches God with increase or loss, nor does any unit of time ever divide him; rather, he remains ever without beginning, inviolate and immutable, granting life to all that is and gathering to supreme blessedness those who purely worship him.

[St. Hildegard von Bingen, The Book of the Divine Works, Campbell, tr., The Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC: 2018), p. 420.]