Charity Abounds: Beauty & Christian Love in the Music of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Join us for a concert in the St. Mechtilde Sacred Music Series. Rosemary Heredos and our very own Sister Jeana Visel will be singing the music of of St. Hildegard of Bingen.

Experience the theology and cosmos of St. Hildegard of Bingen, doctor of the Church, through the sounds of her music. This musical journey will explore music of her Symphonia (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations), and her liturgical drama Ordo Virtutem (Order of the Virtues). St. Hildegard was abbess of a German Benedictine women’s monastery. While the sisters of her community were the original singers of this repertoire, her legacy has inspired generations and continues to offer timely perspectives for the twenty-first century Church.

Saturday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m. EST
in the Monastery Church
The concert will be open to the public, and there will be a free will offering available for those who want to give their support.  

Dr. Rosemary Heredos is a soprano and scholar specializing in Early Music, with a focus on Gregorian chant. She serves as Lecturer in Sacred Music and Voice at the Saint Meinrad Institute for Sacred Music, where she teaches chant and voice. She holds a doctorate in Historical Performance Practice from Case Western Reserve University and an MA in Ritual Chant and Song from the University of Limerick. An active performer, she sings with Cantoral in Limerick and the Trobár medieval ensemble in Cleveland. A lifelong church musician, she is Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Anselm Church in Ohio, and also teaches at Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Hiram College. Her research centers on medieval chant, notation, and liturgical history.

From Winnebago, IL, Sister Jeana Visel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and a Master’s degree in Theology/Monastic Studies. She’s also a Doctor of Ministry in Spirituality at Catholic University, and has completed icon studies through Hexaemeron Six Days of Creation workshops. Sister Jeana taught high school theology for 5 years, and served as Director of Assessment and Orders Documentarian and Director of Graduate Theology Program at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. She’s still at Saint Meinrad as Dean of School of Theology Programs and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spirituality. She enjoys painting, teaching about icons and other religious art, singing, writing and hiking.