Fall 2013 - Episode 7: Year of Faith

Highlighted Saint

St. Hildegard, new doctor of the Church

Feast Day Sept 17th

Abbess: Hildegard was born at Bermersheim, Germany, in 1098. She was a Benedictine nun and mystic. Abbess from 1136, she founded several monasteries, including that of Rupersberg, near Bingen, where she lived a long time and died, in 1179. She left an enormous library production related to her visions, as well as commentaries on the Gospels, the rule of Saint Benedict, and the lives of various saints. Her treatise Liber Scivias (sci vias Domini: “know the ways of the Lord”) a collection of revelations, was approved by the pope with the support of Saint Bernard.

In traditional iconography, she is depicted as a Benedictine nun writing.

Protector: Esperantists and philologists.

Name: Hildegard is from the German and means “fearless in battle”.

Janet's Homework Assignment

1) Read Benedict’s letter on the Door of Faith “Porte Fide”
2) Review how you have “learned, lived, and shared the faith.”
3) Visit FOCUS web site www.focusonline.org
4) The Faith by Pope Benedict

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