Contemplation of Creation

Viriditas — The Greening

Hildegard of Bingen · 1098–1179

Hildegard heard God in the 'greenness' of living things — viriditas, the moist, growing life-force surging through creation, and through you. Contemplate that greening, offer your dryness, and be renewed.

How long?

Sound

Screen-off mode — let the screen rest. The sound keeps playing and a soft tone calls you back at the end.

St Hildegard of Bingen — Liber Divinorum Operum I.1; antiphon “O nobilissima viriditas” (Symphonia 56).