Fiery Spirit,
fount of courage, life within life of all that has being!
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O sacred breath O blazing love O savor in the breast and balm flooding the heart with the fragrance of good, O limpid mirror of God who leads wanderers home and hunts out the lost,
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O current of power permeating all in the heights upon the earth and in all deeps: you bind and gather all people together.
A Prayer from Hildegard of Bingen, trans. by Barbara Newman, “Sequence for the Holy Spirit,” in Saint Hildegard of Bingen, “Symphonia”