Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Hildegard of Bingen Novena
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Hildegard of Bingen for musicians, writers, and ecology. Traditionally prayed September 8 through September 16, or any time.
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About This Novena
This novena turns to St. Hildegard as a mystic, composer, and teacher whose life still inspires Christians seeking beauty, insight, and holy endurance in their work.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for musicians, writers, ecology, artists, and those seeking spiritual clarity.
Usual timing
September 8 through September 16, or any time
Day 1 of 9
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer, and mark the day complete when you finish.
Day checklist
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Day 1
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Pray the principal prayer for this day of the novena.
Principal Prayer for Each Day
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Prayer of St Hildegard von Bingen (O Eterne Deus):
O Eternal God, now may it please Thee to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love Thou felt when Thou begot Thy Son at the first dawn before all creation.
And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of Thy Son, and lead us to the joy of Thy salvation. Amen.
Pause here for the grace you are asking.
St Hildegard, pray for us that the words you wrote to your monastic friend may also apply to us, May the Holy Spirit enkindle you with the fire of His love so that you may persevere, unfailingly, in the love of His service. Thus you may merit to become, at last, a living stone in the celestial Jerusalem.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
St Hildegard of Bingen, pray for us!
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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About this novena
Description
This novena turns to St. Hildegard as a mystic, composer, and teacher whose life still inspires Christians seeking beauty, insight, and holy endurance in their work.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
musicians, writers, ecology, artists, those seeking spiritual clarity
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for musicians, writers, ecology, artists, and those seeking spiritual clarity.
Usual timing
September 8 through September 16, or any time
Hildegard von Bingen, Liber Divinorum Operum manuscript