Tuesday, November 11 : St Hildegard of Bingen

It would be better for you that you feel useless and a sinner than being lukewarm … If you understood that you are a sinner, you would tear yourself away from the bad actions … But you are like a lukewarm breeze that does not bring humidity to the fruit and do not give them warmth. You are the one who begins and not the one who completes, you touch the good at the beginning, May you do not feed on him in his completion, similar to a wind which caresses the face, but which does not nourish the belly. What is better, a vain noise or a work brought to term? … Consequently, act in the silence of humility and do not rise with pride, because it will be counted for nothing that which strives to obtain with a pride of fire what it disdains to accomplish in the abandonment of love. Vain and fools, those who place their confidence in themselves … Those who, in their pride, put their confidence in themselves, wish to appear more wise than their fathers and do not want to walk according to their pact, but, in their great instability, give themselves laws according to their whims … because what sometimes seems good to men by an error of their mind, when they are not intensely warmed by the breath of the Holy Spirit will go to death, because it came from a vain glory. (…) Happy who, having confidence in me, places his hope, and the beginning and the end of his works, not in him, but in me. This one will not fall. But who will want to hold without me will go to ruin.

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