Frases de Hildegarda de Bingen
Hildegarda de Bingen
Fecha de nacimiento: 1098
Fecha de muerte: 17. Septiembre 1179
Santa Hildegarda de Bingen O.S.B. fue abadesa, líder monacal, mística, profetisa, médica, compositora y escritora alemana. Es conocida como la sibila del Rin y como la profetisa teutónica. El 7 de octubre de 2012 el papa Benedicto XVI le otorgó el título de doctora de la Iglesia junto a San Juan de Ávila durante la misa de apertura de la XIII Asamblea general ordinaria del sínodo de los obispos.
Considerada por los especialistas actuales como una de las personalidades más fascinantes y polifacéticas del Occidente europeo, se la definió entre las mujeres más influyentes de la Baja Edad Media, entre las figuras más ilustres del monacato femenino y quizá la que mejor ejemplificó el ideal benedictino, dotada de una cultura fuera de lo común, comprometida también en la reforma de la Iglesia, y una de las escritoras de mayor producción de su tiempo. En expresión de Victoria Cirlot:
«[...] atravesando el muro de los tiempos han quedado sus palabras, incluso su sonido, y las imágenes de sus visiones».
Frases Hildegarda de Bingen
„O venerable father Bernard, I lay my claim before you, for, highly honored by God, you bring fear to the immoral foolishness of this world and, in your intense zeal and burning love for the Son of God, gather men [cf. Luke 5.10] into Christ's army to fight under the banner of the cross against pagan savagery. I beseech you in the name of the Living God to give heed to my queries.“
— Hildegard of Bingen
Letter to Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1146-47
„O dawn, you washed them away
in a woman who was clean.
O form of woman, sister of Wisdom,
how great is your glory!
For in you there rose a life unquenchable
that death shall never stifle.
Wisdom exalted you to make
all creatures fairer in your beauty
than they were when the world was born.“
— Hildegard of Bingen
Ad Vitam S. Ruperti Epilogus 6, Pitra 364.
„Now, O son of God, set in the valley of true humility, walk in peace without pride of spirit, which, like a precipitous mountain, offers a difficult, or near-impossible, ascent or descent to those who attempt to scale it, and on its summit no building can be built. For a person who tries to climb higher than he can achieve possesses the name of sanctity without substance, because, in name alone without a structure of good works, he glories in a kind of vain joy of the mind.“
— Hildegard of Bingen
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176
„O Eternal God, now may it please you
to burn in love
so that we become the limbs
fashioned in the love you felt
when you begot your Son
at the first dawn
before all creation.
And consider this need which falls upon us,
take it from us for the sake of your Son,
and lead us to the joy of your salvation.“
— Hildegard of Bingen
"O eterne deus"
„Father, I am greatly disturbed by a vision which has appeared to me through divine revelation, a vision seen not with my fleshly eyes but only in my spirit. Wretched, and indeed more than wretched in my womanly condition, I have from earliest childhood seen great marvels which my tongue has no power to express but which the Spirit of God has taught me that I may believe." Steadfast and gentle father, in your kindness respond to me, your unworthy servant, who has never, from her earliest childhood, lived one hour free from anxiety. In your piety and wisdom look in your spirit, as you have been taught by the Holy Spirit, and from your heart bring comfort to your handmaiden.“
— Hildegard of Bingen
Letter to Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1146-47
