Hildegard of Bingen, often referred to as Saint Hildegard, was a renowned German Benedictine abbess, writer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
ANTIPHON FOR THE ANGELS
Hildegard of Bingen
Spirited light! on the edge
of the Presence your yearning
burns in the secret darkness,
O angels, insatiably
into God’s gaze.
Perversity
could not touch your beauty;
you are essential joy.
But your lost companion,
angel of the crooked
wings—he sought the summit,
shot down the depths of God
and plummeted to hell,
hissing counsels of ruin
in the ears of God’s new
creation.