Synopses & Reviews
Open your heart to the words of prayer of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, twelfthcentury mystic, healer and abbess, natural scientist, prophetess and spiritual guideone of the greatest female spiritual figures of the last millennium. From the saints great visionary works dealing with God, humans and the cosmos, one of her modern followers has compiled a simple, unpretentious, consoling book of prayer. The mystical writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the self-described trumpet of God” and zither of the Holy Spirit,” invite you to enter into prayer that is dialogue on all levels: a dialogue between the Creator and the created, one person and another, the individual and nature, the body and the soul, virtue and vice.
About the Author
WALBURGA STORCH, O.S.B., is a Benedictine Sister in Rüdesheim-Eibingen, Germany (St. Hildegards Abbey). She translated for the first time in German the Latin-critical edition of Scivias, and the entire letters of Hildegard of Bingen. CAECILIA BONN, O.S.B., is oblate director and former prioress for 23 years at St. Hildegards Abbey in Rüdesheim-Eibingen. SHARON THERESE NEMETH, a native Californian, holds an M.A. (Magister Artium) Anglistik and Germanistik [English and German] from the Universität Mannheim, Germany. She lives and teaches in Mannheim and is a translator specializing in spiritual writing.