Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Robert Bellarmine
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center,
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Today is the feast of two Doctors of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine nun who was given tremendous insights into God's Creation, and St. Robert Bellarmine, a great Bishop and theologian. The hand of God can be clearly seen in the conjunction of these two feasts, as St. Hildegard and St. Robert Bellarmine both played a key role in defending God's revelation concerning the central place of mankind and of his earthly home in the divine plan of creation.
In honor of these two great saints and Doctors of the Church, the Kolbe Center has chosen their feast day to release in
e-book and in a
print form biophysicist Dean H. Kenyon's translation of a work by Helmut Posch on the teachings of St. Hildegard of Bingen on Creation entitled
The True Conception of the World. Dr. Kenyon explains that St. Hildegard was shown the workings of the solar system on the same pattern that Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe conceived several centuries after St. Hildegard. This Hildegardian vision of the cosmos actually explains the astronomical evidence better than the alternative models of the universe that have been in fashion for the last few hundred years while restoring mankind and the Earth to their rightful place in God's plan for Creation.
If anyone in the Boston area would like to attend an impromptu Kolbe seminar, I will be giving a talk on "Creation, Evolution and the Crisis of Faith" at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, September 18, at 3 p.m. Next week I will be in Ohio, to give a talk on "Evolution and the Culture of Death" at the Life Tech conference at the University of Dayton on Saturday, September 24.
Please keep the Kolbe Center in your prayers.
Yours in Christ through the Holy Theotokos,
Hugh Owen
