Nameeta Renu is a member of the Order of Consecrated Virgins in Bombay. She has studied the pastoral care of liminal migrants and refugees, and has a doctorate in theology on spiritual guidance and integral formation based on viriditas (greenness) in the spirituality of St. Hildegard of Bingen. She has published articles on consecrated life in various newsletters and theological journals.
"Herstory" is mostly unwritten, distorted or erased by men from Scripture as well as tradition. But I firmly believe that the early church was a feminist movement, although its mission was not limited to feminism.
In the third millennium, St. Hildegard's concept of viriditas can illumine our hearts and minds to penetrate the depths of the mystery, as greenness of God's finger creates and re-creates consecrated life.
St. Hildegard of Bingen saw God's living power of light in creation and named it viriditas. What was extraordinary about her theological compositions and spirituality of viriditas, to make them relevant for all times?
