Author: jcaracciolo

Hildegard’s Way

September 14-October 12, 2017

Thursdays/afternoon and evening classes
Afternoon 4:00 pm -7:15 p.m.
Evening 6:15-9:00 pm We nurture community when both classes share dinner and worship from 6:15-7:15 p.m.

Hildegard’s Way is an invitation to discover and embody viriditas—the greening power of love capable of transforming our own lives, the church and the world. How will we wake up and do what makes us come alive?

St. Hildegard’s Rule of Life names ten themes that point the way to a Hildegardian spiritual path:
Honor the Holy Healing Earth
Make Peace with Nonviolence
Create from your Heart
Engage Intellectual Liveliness Open to the Wisdom of our Bodies
Sing! Dance!
Live into Belovedness
Open to Sophia
Pray and Meditate
Live Life out of Call

We will explore how Hildegard calls each of us to engage life to the fullest.These themes are healing and energizing personally and communally. Let’s listen to our deepest longings! Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God!

To register contact Judith Liro at jliro(at)swbell.net or call/text 512-925-9156
Contact Judith about possibilities to participate on-line.
Cost is based on a sliding scale of $40 – $100
St. Hildegard’s Community Rule of Life is available from Amazon

By Jann Aldredge Clanton.
The Sunday following the Women’s March in Austin, Texas, I had the joy of worshiping with St. Hildegard’s Community. It was just what I needed to strengthen my resolve to work for justice and to give me the spiritual power so necessary to this work. See full reflection here.

Please save the date. Bishop Marc Andrus and his wife, Sheila, will be with us on Sunday afternoon, June 25th when seven of us will take vows.

The liturgy will be at our usual time 4:00 Silence, 4:30 Eucharist. It’s an important day as we launch St. Hildegard’s Community in its new form. We hope that our friends and families will join us for this significant step in our ongoing life.

St. Hildegard’s is a transformative community, a place to live into our baptism with accountability and encouragement.

St. Hildegard’s is an alternative way of being church, intentionally small so that gifts can be called forth and a vision embodied.

St. Hildegard’s is a community where we practice the disciplines
that nourish the radical freedom of the Gospel. All disciplines shall be freely chosen when there is a readiness and yearning within for the gift that is offered.