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Encountering the Diving Companion
Jesus House
May 20-22, 2016
ST. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
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St. Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179) a German Benedictine abbess & foundress of monasteries
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She was also a musician and
composer, poet and prophet, pharmacist and doctor
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From childhood she experienced
visions in which the word of God — both in Scripture and nature — were revealed
to her
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Hildegard declared a Dr. of
the Church in 2012
CHARACTERISTICS OF A FLAME +++++++++++++++++
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On this feast of the Holy
Trinity and this retreat weekend, she gives us an image of how a triune God is
experienced, here in our hearts
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It is more than coincidence
for us
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(Invite all to take a candle and hold it carefully)
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As the flame of a fire has
three qualities, so there is one God in three persons. How so?
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A flame is made up of (1)
brilliant light and (2) red power and (3) fiery heat
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It has a brilliant light that
it may shine
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It has red power that it may
endure
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And it has fiery heat that it
may burn
THE FATHER +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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So, by brilliant light we
experience the F…
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Who with the love of a parent
opens his brightness within each of us
THE SON
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And by the red power we experience
the Son
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The red power is in flame that
it may be strong
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The Son, born of Mary took on
a body,
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A body thru which divine
wonders were shown
THE SPIRIT
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And in fiery heat we
understand the Holy Spirit
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The Spirit who burns ardently
in the hearts of those who come to him in prayer
CONCLUSION
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As we hold this symbol of
divinity, we remember that there’s no flame seen where there is neither
brilliant light nor red power nor fiery heat
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And thus also where neither
the F nor the S nor the HS is known, God is not fully encountered
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Therefore, as these 3 qualities
R found in 1 flame, so 3 persons must B understood in the unity of divinity &
the totality of R experience of divinity
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