September Week II - Apud Deum

SEPTEMBER WEEK III - ART HIGHLIGHTS

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On Tuesday, September 14th, 2021, we celebrate:
THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS

On Wednesday, September 15th, 2021, we celebrate:
THE SEVEN SORROWS OF MARY
[Mater Dolorosa]

Art Appreciation and History of Mater Dolorosa

On Friday, September 17th, 2021, we celebrate the feast day of:
ST. HILDEGARDE VON BINGEN, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH

St. Hildegarde was a 12th Century German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany, and is often referred to as, “Europe’s first homeopath.” She founded monasteries, wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, hymns and antiphons for the liturgy and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. There are more surviving chants by Hildegard than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words. One of her works, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church, in recognition of "her holiness of life and the originality of her teaching."

St. Hildegarde wrote treatises on the gemstones of from Sacred Scripture and how they can be used as prayer accessories. To learn more about this facet of Church writings, the art club will start a weekly after school jewelry designing workshop.
The drama club will begin rehearsing st. Hildegarde's play, Ordo Virtutem.