Earth Circle meets once a month on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm Central via Zoom. If you’d like to join us, please email us at sthildecommaustin@gmail.com to get the link. We’d love to have you join us as we lament the loss we feel as Earth is ravaged, and as we find joy in connections between humans and the natural world. When we gather, we recognize our interdependence with all life and the efforts of many to work in harmony with our great Mother Earth, for we are the Earth.
On June 25th of this year, The St. Hildegard Community of seven professed members celebrated their foundation day anniversary. St. Hildegard’s Community is devoted to the greening of the church in ways that flow from the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth century Benedictine abbess. We offer our local expression of community as a seed that will grow into a dispersed community of individuals and perhaps someday, sister communities. Click to see professed members photos
May 27th, we begin a new liturgical season, an expression of our community vow to Love the Earth. Our Eucharistic Prayer will be “We sing in deep joy!” click to see photo.
This past saturday, the St. Hildegard Community gathered to celebrate sister Mary Ermey and her dear friend, Gayle’s birthday. It was a beautiful day of gratitudes and blessings. Click to see photos.
St. Hildegard professed members’ Judith Liro, and Virginia Marie Rincon recently attended the CAROA-NAECC conference in Toronto Canada. We worshipped, experienced the profoundness of silence, gathered in fellowship and attended a lecture on the use of social media in our communities. Our community, St. Hildegard shared the Mass of Mary Magdala in song with the various religious communities in the beautiful chapel of St. John the Divine Convent. Sister Judith sung the mass and sister Virginia Marie offered the ceremony of the Four Directions as the opening prayer. Sister Greta Ronningen co-founder of The Community of Divine Love and co-director of Prism Restorative Justice in Los Angeles also joined us at the altar with her gifts. We are forever grateful for all the help from the sisters from St. John the Divine in preparing the chapel for the liturgy. It was a great gathering and we left inspired for our future and the future of other religious communities.
Hildegard’s WaySeptember 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.
