St. Hildegard's Community

03/08/2026

We invite you to join us online for worship Sundays at 4 pm, Central. We begin with 20 minutes of silence together, then begin the liturgy at 4:30. DM us for the liturgy zoom link.

From our Lenten liturgist:
In this year of our 30th anniversary, the readings for Lent will include passages from books which were written in the years leading up to our Blessing as St Hildegard’s Eucharistic Community at St George’s Episcopal Church in Austin in 1996. These passages are chosen for their descriptive relating of embodied experiences of the Feminine Divine. Readings will also come from the book Born From the Gaze of God the Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk (1993-1996).

This Lent you may be inspired to write your own Lenten journal. If so, the response time could also include the sharing of how the readings resonated with you in the week between Sundays. Love, Margo

02/01/2026

We give thanks that 5 year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody today, Sunday, February 1.

One of our members Janet Cook took part in the protest this past week at the Texas detention center where Liam and his father were held. Agents pepper sprayed the marchers as they approached the facility. Janet said the protest was peaceful and the attack was unwarranted.

01/29/2026

We're offering a timely study of power, domination, and creative non-violence through Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powers. These 10-week Servant Leadership School classes start Feb 5. On zoom.
Learn more and sign up here: https://forms.gle/M1m78hyfagJua6X77

01/25/2026

“This is God’s call to The Episcopal Church now, and it is not an easy one. In the United States, we no longer live in a time when we can expect to practice our faith without risk, and we are confronting what vulnerable communities of faith have experienced for generations.”
- Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, The Most Rev Sean Rowe

You can read his full statement below.

Dear people of God in The Episcopal Church: Like Jesus, we live in frightening times. His earthly ministry began, as we heard in today’s Gospel reading, when John the Baptist was imprisoned by authorities who wanted to silence his preaching and prophesying.

01/15/2026

At a recent vigil for Renee Good, Bishop Robert Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire invoked instances throughout history when clergy members put their lives at risk to protect the vulnerable.

One of the examples he cited was that of New Hampshire seminary student Jonathan Daniels, who was killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Alabama during the civil rights movement.

“I have told the clergy of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness,” Hirschfeld said. “And I’ve asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written, because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies, to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”

(📸: Photo by Elena Eberwein / NHPR)

01/13/2026

Join the Episcopal church to pray together and remember all who have been killed by ICE and died while in detention.

Join Episcopalians and faith partners in an online prayer vigil remembering those who have died due to immigration enforcement or while in detention. Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe and Minnesota Bishop Craig Loya will speak; and the Rev. Lester Mackenzie, the church's chief of mission program, and Rebecca Linder Blachly, chief of public policy and witness, will co-lead a short service of compline. Three members of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota will give readings, and Spanish interpretation will be available.

The service will offer space to mourn and lament, as well as to seek grounding in Christ as the church continues to witness to and work toward God's love and justice for the world.

Register here: https://iam.ec/4qj1q8G

09/28/2025

During September we are celebrating Hildegard Season and this is our final Sunday. DM us for zoom link. We start at 4 central with silence for 20 minutes then begin the eucharist at 4:30

This is a time we honor our patron saint by including elements that were important in her life. We meditate on one of her illuminations—paintings based on her visions. We include her own words as well as those written about her. We sing her songs. Our prayers are based on our three vows and include a blessing with herbs to remember her love of creation and the greening power of Spirit. She nurtures and guides us as we offer our attention through the rituals, songs and prayers.

09/22/2025

From the blessing of community and solemn profession of vows on our celebration of the Feast of St Hildegard’s today.

09/21/2025

Today seven novices will take vows as we celebrate the Feast of St Hildegard. It's been a multi-year process of preparation for them. Like to join us online at 4 for silence and 4:30 for the Eucharist and Vows? Send us a DM for the zoom link.

08/07/2025

Recently one of our Novices, Nancy read a blog post by a longtime member, Daphne. Nancy responded with art and her own reflections. Just another example of how community inspires and shapes us.
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"Daphne contributed an article on loving our watersheds as a way to really begin to be in relationship to the land and recognize that we are within it, not separate, not on top of or merely with.

I am attempting to honor this withinness by doing a series of paintings which I playfully call “Ditch Love”. Each painting is of a ditch—many of the ditch that drains the mountain along the side of the road I live on.

Some are of neighboring ditches. They are not always flowing with water but I like them best when they are. Eventually that ditch water feeds into others and joins the Ashokan Reservoir and the Esopus Creek which supplies NYC with much of its water.
Daily I walk my dog, Moe up and down the road and photograph the ditch when something attracts me. It’s amazing how much beauty is right there—within. It’s not the grand scenic view that I’m trying to “capture” as I am within not over.

Painting from memory and the photographs allows me an intimacy that I continue to nurture with walking, seeing and listening.

I hope that you will find ways to be intimate with your watershed and that love will help you to discern how to care for it—it’s like a marriage where two become one and the health/wholeness of each is dependent on the other. Reciprocal."

Nancy Mahoney