We got to sleep late! Then we went to church with Sabine. She is Catholic but does not attend the local church. She drives quite a ways to a liberal Catholic church which indeed is very popular. We got there early and it was nearly full. Because it was in German I had difficulty forming much of an opinion of what was liberal. (I also forgot to take my camera.) I did catch that the sermon seemed to express a liberation Theology with references to Africa, justice, police, diminishing ego.
Apparently the Dio police are not so active here. Sabine teaches in a Catholic school but has no fear for her job over her beliefs. There was a gay union ceremony in their church with the priest officiating. They have a sister church in Uganda. Good feeling but can't say much more. Music was lively but nothing I was familiar with. African drums were used at times.
We returned home for lunch. We had seen German white asparagus and strawberries for sale in stands and in stores and Sabine told us they are in season. The season for the asparagus is short. She prepared some for lunch.
Lunch was soup of white asparagus, and a kind of polenta dumpling. With it we had boiled potatoes with holandase sauce, followed by fresh strawberries.
Yummy!! This is an amazing family. We were made to feel completely at home.
The Hildegarde museum was 30 minutes away and closed at 5. We left for Bingen around 2:30. Our GPS had been wonderful up to now. It did not recognize the street in Bingen and then recognized Bingen and yes it was the right Bingen but told us it was over 4 hours away. It was routing us all over Germany. We ignored it and followed the Rhine and eventually arrived. Even when we were in Bingen and the GPS said we were in Bingen, it STILL said we had 200 miles to Bingen.
It is a much larger town than we thought and by now it was close to 4. Nothing was open on this Sunday afternoon. Eventually we found a wonderful woman who told us to follow her car and she twisted and turned through the narrow streets and eventually stopped in front of the Museum - still giving us most of an hour there.
It is not a very impressive place. The Hildegarde exhibit shares the building with a history of the town , and a display of surgical instruments found in an excavated grave from the middle ages of a doctor from that period.
Hildegarde 's music was playing in her space and that alone would have been enough
there were many reproductions of her work but the light made pictures difficult without flash.
I did take a number of the explanatory frames which you can try to read if you are a Hildegarde fan or skip.
For those who may not know of her many talents she was a composer, herbalist and healer, visionary, prophet. She wrote major works in theology. When few women were respected she was consulted by Bishops, Popes, Kings. She has now been canonized by the Roman Church and declared a Doctor of the Church.
We drove back along the Rhine through small towns.
More Hildegarde tomorrow...
Apparently the Dio police are not so active here. Sabine teaches in a Catholic school but has no fear for her job over her beliefs. There was a gay union ceremony in their church with the priest officiating. They have a sister church in Uganda. Good feeling but can't say much more. Music was lively but nothing I was familiar with. African drums were used at times.
We returned home for lunch. We had seen German white asparagus and strawberries for sale in stands and in stores and Sabine told us they are in season. The season for the asparagus is short. She prepared some for lunch.
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| Preparing the white asparagus |
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| Sabine, Paul, and younger daughter Joanna |
Lunch was soup of white asparagus, and a kind of polenta dumpling. With it we had boiled potatoes with holandase sauce, followed by fresh strawberries.
Yummy!! This is an amazing family. We were made to feel completely at home.
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| Our home in Koblenz |
The Hildegarde museum was 30 minutes away and closed at 5. We left for Bingen around 2:30. Our GPS had been wonderful up to now. It did not recognize the street in Bingen and then recognized Bingen and yes it was the right Bingen but told us it was over 4 hours away. It was routing us all over Germany. We ignored it and followed the Rhine and eventually arrived. Even when we were in Bingen and the GPS said we were in Bingen, it STILL said we had 200 miles to Bingen.
It is a much larger town than we thought and by now it was close to 4. Nothing was open on this Sunday afternoon. Eventually we found a wonderful woman who told us to follow her car and she twisted and turned through the narrow streets and eventually stopped in front of the Museum - still giving us most of an hour there.
It is not a very impressive place. The Hildegarde exhibit shares the building with a history of the town , and a display of surgical instruments found in an excavated grave from the middle ages of a doctor from that period.
Hildegarde 's music was playing in her space and that alone would have been enough
there were many reproductions of her work but the light made pictures difficult without flash.
I did take a number of the explanatory frames which you can try to read if you are a Hildegarde fan or skip.
For those who may not know of her many talents she was a composer, herbalist and healer, visionary, prophet. She wrote major works in theology. When few women were respected she was consulted by Bishops, Popes, Kings. She has now been canonized by the Roman Church and declared a Doctor of the Church.
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| Statue of Hildegarde at the Museum |
We drove back along the Rhine through small towns.
More Hildegarde tomorrow...
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