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  • On This Easter Celebrating Wisdom New and Eternal

    On This Easter Celebrating Wisdom New and Eternal

    We have many modern-day Catholic leaders to learn from, such as Archbishop Cordileone here in San Francisco. We’re fortunate that the church is alive and the pews are full today.…

  • Mortifications and Lent: Hildegard’s Way and Now

    Mortifications and Lent: Hildegard’s Way and Now

    During this season of Lent, do we fast? Do we do specific mortifications? Do you know? Looking back, we can draw examples of mortification practices from Jutta and Hildegard; each…

  • Have a Fear of Writing? So Did Hildegard, At First

    Have a Fear of Writing? So Did Hildegard, At First

    “Write What You See And Hear” As gifted as Hildegard of Bingen was, it took great courage for her to share her visions. Even though Hildegard had visions from God,…

  • Hildegard of Bingen: Celebrity Saint

    Hildegard of Bingen: Celebrity Saint

    You know her. You love her. Saint Hildegard of Bingen! St. Hildegard of Bingen, born in 1098 and living to 1179, is still well-known and in people’s hearts today. Young…

  • All’s Well With Love and Marriage

    All’s Well With Love and Marriage

    Hildegard helped keep marriage for love. Taylor Swift, a tradwife? That’s what some are saying after the release of her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl”. In one of…