Contemplative Worship Team - September 6, 2026
Viriditas - The Greening Power of God: Week 2
Divine Love speaks: “I am the supreme and fiery force, who sets all living sparks alight and breathes forth no mortal things, but judges them as they are. Flying around the circling circlet with my upper wings — with Wisdom — I have ordered all things rightly. But I am also the fiery life of the essence of divinity; I flame above the beauty of the fields, and I shine in the waters, and I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. With the airy wind I quicken all things with some invisible life that sustains them all. For the air lives in viridity and in the flowers, the waters flow as if alive, and the sun lives within its own light. Therefore I, the fiery force, lie hidden in these things, and they burn because of me, just as breath continually moves a human being and a flickering flame exists within the fire. All of these things live in their essences and were not found in death, because I am Life. I am also Rationality, possessing the wind of the resounding Word, through which every created thing was made; and in all these things I blow, so that none of them might be mortal in its nature, because I am Life. For I am Life, pure and whole, which was not hewn from stones, neither blossomed from branches … but every living thing has taken root in me. For Reason is the root, and the resounding Word flourishes within it.” Hildegard of Bingen, Book of Divine Works
Scripture References: Psalms 148:1-14, John 1:1-5, Acts 17:24-28
From Series: "Contemplative Worship"
Contemplative Worship with The Center for Christian Spirituality in Houston, Texas. A ministry of Chapelwood United Methodist Church
