Enclose us in your threefold wings

Daily Reading for October 24

Holy Wisdom in your power

Hold us fast in every hour.

Enclose us in your threefold wings

Spreading to embrace all things.

One pierces heaven’s heights above,

Another touches earth with love.

The other moves with tender care

In mystery through the cosmic air.

Holy Wisdom in your power

Enlighten us in every hour.

A prayer of Hildegard of Bingen, quoted in Invincible Spirits: A Thousand Years of Women’s Spiritual Writings, compiled by Felicity Leng (Eerdmans, 2006).

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