St. Hildegard of Bingen and the healing power of stones and crystals.

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  • @RoxanaKristina
    @RoxanaKristina 2 місяці тому +6

    amin, brother ! im tired of the narrowness of some "cristians" labeling wjhatever they don't understand as occult, c'mon people we're not in the middle ages anymore (although in some ways they were more open-minded, example Hildegard), these things are actually scientifically explained

  • @OUTBOUND184
    @OUTBOUND184 9 місяців тому +22

    Very happy to see you talking about her. So many trads have an extremely limited idea of the richness (and strangeness) of our beautiful faith. It's wonderful.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +15

      We need to recover what new agers have stolen from us. The Catholic Church is extremely rich.

    • @OUTBOUND184
      @OUTBOUND184 9 місяців тому +4

      @@thecatholicman Indeed. "Re-weird" the Church. Sebastian Morello talks a lot about this.

    • @OUTBOUND184
      @OUTBOUND184 9 місяців тому +5

      @user-tx3ht2te1t Oh bore off. SAINT Hildegard, doctor of the Church wrote these things down so that others could practice them. We'll take her word over yours 'user-tx3ht2te1t' from UA-cam.

    • @tomthx5804
      @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому

      Yes, you can be like God if you just eat that apple. Don't be "limited"

    • @tomthx5804
      @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому

      No, she did not write them down so that people would practice them. You are way way off base. @@OUTBOUND184

  • @LupinGaius-ls1or
    @LupinGaius-ls1or 13 днів тому +1

    St. Thomas also mentioned using using emerald the same way. What’s curios is that some stones, diamond for example, that do have physical properties that could be useful, like heat transfer or making hard to tap and therefore slander or lie. These were pretty common medical beliefs of the time, and HVB also listed common herb and medicinal practices. Not sure about gold, but silver and copper also have anti-microbial properties we take as of today.

  • @Nicole-uq2ul
    @Nicole-uq2ul 9 місяців тому +14

    Jewish priests wore 9 or 12 precious stone breastplates. Each apostle has a certain precious stone to represent them and the gate of heaven they stand in front of right? I think John is amethyst. Anyone know about this? I obviously don't remember details, I just remember thinking how amazing rocks are. I still enjoy hunting for agates. I decorate my home with beautiful sand and rocks I've found in my travels.

  • @wisewomanhealing
    @wisewomanhealing 9 місяців тому +19

    Thank you for talking about this. I am a Christian healer who does use stones in her practice. Three things helped me overcome incorrect indoctrination about crystals; 1. St. Hildegard, 2. A Coptic icon of Jesus standing in the midst of stones and the verse about the rocks crying out to praise Him if we do not, and finally 3. the IMB tests done by Marcel Vogel documenting the frequencies of crystals. They do heal, even from a distance. They are given to us by God because He is good and He loves us!

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +5

      I suppose there needs to be more study on this and how they were used in centuries past in the Church by Saints like St. Hildegard.

    • @spykezspykez7001
      @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому

      By all means, if you are harnessing belief and the placebo effect of crystals in a way that ... say Fr. Ripperger would not object too, maybe it’s ok.
      But far more healing, and relief of suffering has been achieved already by proper, methodical, non-superstitious use of crystals. In fact, I can cite you an example where countless millions have likely been saved if you wish.
      But you may not like my answe.

    • @KrystynaSvon
      @KrystynaSvon 9 місяців тому

      Hello, do any stones or crystals help with frequent urination please? Nothing to do with UTI, caused by pituitary gland tumor or heavy metals poisoning.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому

      @@KrystynaSvon speak to your doctor

  • @DelioJez
    @DelioJez 9 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for this video! I bought a device from a site called Dulwich Health which limits the effects of electromagnetic pollution- in other words, a "blocker" from electronic devices and wireless interferences that affect our nervous systems, causing stress. It is made of copper and brass and helps to limit "geopathic stress"; I know it sounds bonkers but I've found evidence of it working through buying a big one- the long stick version- for my grandparents' house without telling them, and my grandmother has calmed down since. I've also given many people the handheld one- the pocket device- without telling them what it does, and they have felt calm. I'm not trying to sell anything lol, I just know it's benefited everyone I've provided it to. This then led me into wrist bands with crystals on them, and I feel I have benefited from them (though I realise the science is more doubtful)- I have had them blessed by three priests so any nefarious origins of them have hopefully been removed. I'm just so happy I've come across this video to know there is some saintly justification for it! God bless you, Robert!

  • @mary-ellenshanley4492
    @mary-ellenshanley4492 9 місяців тому +5

    Thank-you Robert, but I'll be just keeping praying the rosary 📿 and talking to Jesus and Mary, it works for me. ❤🙏😮

  • @ChristianSyncretist
    @ChristianSyncretist 9 місяців тому +4

    Thank you for sharing this. It is important Catholics to be educated about their own traditions, without superstition or fear. It important to realize the pre-modern worldview in the West was very different from ours. Many Catholics, including clergy, religious and others were comfortable in that space. Powers of gems, stones, the Four Elements, astrological correspondence, alchemy, and Kabbalah were familiar to many of these. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your view), most Christian Churches have a modern understanding of the Cosmos so these "sciences" became relegated to more marginal spiritual groups. Condemning them as "New Age" does a disservice to the history of these ideas. Through St. Hildegard it is possible to see it through a Catholic lens, and help recover them for Christianity.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +4

      It’s interesting how rationalistic Catholics became, completely reject how saints would have viewed the world 1000 years ago, they are more attached to the enlightenment than to Christendom. If I was to say today that Iron as a metal has healing powers, people would call me crazy, yet if a doctor said you need to take an iron supplement nobody questions that. If Iron has occult (hidden) properties and I use occult in its proper context not as it’s been appropriated today to mean something else, but 1000 years ago saints and churchmen would have spoken about hidden occult properties of things.

    • @ChristianSyncretist
      @ChristianSyncretist 9 місяців тому +3

      Absolutely. It is like we have left Nature to the scientists and all we have left is Salvation.
      @@thecatholicman

    • @76endurathon
      @76endurathon Місяць тому +1

      we can be too narrow minded about things we do not understand. often christians are so focused on the negative, they drive out any positive......we must not quench the holy spirit

  • @JackieKeilthy
    @JackieKeilthy 9 місяців тому +27

    Oh lads I really don’t advise going down this path… not in this day and age !! Take it as someone who came out of new age … and I thank God every day for rescuing me. Leave the crystals n stones where God left them. Pray to Jesus for healings … they just open the door to the occult eventually , They are infact , what loured me in. Praise Jesus and Easter 2017 for my return to Pure Catholic faith.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +20

      The new age has tortured and twisted what is good for wrong ends and purposes. Catholics need to recognise, study, understand what previous generations understood. But again with the proper end in mind.

    • @tomthx5804
      @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому +6

      No, that is nonsense. Now you are directly contradicting church teaching in favor of some new, perhaps gnostic knowledge that you think you have discovered. You are really messing up. @@thecatholicman

    • @spykezspykez7001
      @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому +2

      Gonna have to back Tom here, sorry,bro!

    • @danieldimond5734
      @danieldimond5734 9 місяців тому +1

      😇 'Lad' ? Sounds Irish ???
      😢

    • @OUTBOUND184
      @OUTBOUND184 9 місяців тому +2

      @@tomthx5804 Learn about our mystical tradition. You are clearly ignorant of it.

  • @thistledownz.2982
    @thistledownz.2982 2 місяці тому

    Thank you. We can make distinctions. I enjoy my salt lamp because it isn't too bright. I like the natural world!

  • @stellamaris44
    @stellamaris44 9 місяців тому +14

    Saint Hildegard uses the gemstones that are mentioned in the Bible, specifically the gemstones of the foundation of the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse and the gemstones on the Breastplate of the High Priest of Israel, Book of Exodus

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +7

      Indeed, But I think many catholics fail to make the connection.

    • @benjaminlquinlan8702
      @benjaminlquinlan8702 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@thecatholicman We Catholics don't know our bible. We don't know the lives and writings of the Saints, or Church Fathers and Doctors. We have a glancing understanding of our theology, generally speaking... so much of our modern Catholicism is cut off from its transcendental roots and is carried out and performed in absurd paradox. We need to reforge the ancient world view to see with the eye of the heart!

  • @Fatima_Garabandal2251
    @Fatima_Garabandal2251 9 місяців тому +7

    The Kinga Salt Mines ❤- Legend has it that a Hungarian Princess who married the king of Poland (her name was Kinga I think) pointed to the ground and said if you dig there, Poland will be made secure with wealth (salt was a very valuable commodity). But getting back to this post, crystals like all earthly things emit a frequency and ions - this has been well established by physicists and geologists. Himalayan salt lamps when heated emit more negative ions (supposedly) - I bought one for my parents to have on in their hallway so there is a low soothing light to provide enough visibility at night when they need to visit the loo. Crystals are beautiful wonders of the earth. Enjoy them... my only caution is to NOT buy them from a "metaphysical"/"new age"/"occult" shop. You have no idea who has "handled" them. There are all kinds of rock and crystal shops and shows instead.

  • @jjcm3135
    @jjcm3135 9 місяців тому +1

    truly interesting info.

  • @ViktorasPalys-t3j
    @ViktorasPalys-t3j 9 місяців тому +2

    I love her music, and have several of her chant cd's. The music I find to be very healing. I didn't know she had left writings on physical healing as well. I would be very interested in learning. Is there one book or edition you someone could recommend ? I believe plants would be more practical for me as I will never be able to buy any gemstones. Even the rosaries I make are made of plastic beads. Not the best healing material. I may look into more natural beads for my rosary making after hearing this. I would like to learn more.

  • @unalikerose
    @unalikerose 2 місяці тому

    What the Church drops the world picks up, decrement is always necessary.

  • @danieldimond5734
    @danieldimond5734 9 місяців тому +2

    🤔 St. Hildegard, wrote a great deal of beautiful, Chant music !
    💖

  • @homerwiggins3965
    @homerwiggins3965 9 місяців тому +3

    Going down a slippery slope my friend. The new agers and evil doers have totally co opted what Hildegard did. This is different from medicinal plant healing.
    I knew a lady who was a self professed witch and she adored St. Hildegard. What a shame.

  • @MarjorieBurns-gu9tf
    @MarjorieBurns-gu9tf 9 місяців тому +6

    It sounds new age.

  • @meme-vn4fl
    @meme-vn4fl 8 місяців тому

    Thank you So much for Clarifying. Some Priest just say, Crystal's for energy... are Not considered Christianty. I had made & wear several Chalcedony bracelets based on her beliefs. I was Amazed on her A & P knowledge of the human body.

  • @spykezspykez7001
    @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому +1

    Your thoughts on St. Hildegard and the Voynich manuscript.
    Some say it was herself or a contemporary of hers did it.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому

      I’ve no idea to be honest. The voynich manuscript is an odd book

    • @spykezspykez7001
      @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому +1

      But it’s effectively the same genre. It was likely a book on herbal medicine and women’s health.
      Possibly the text was gibberish written in a manner that only the original authors could use.
      One theory was it was written this way to obscure its origin and to protect the authors from being burnt as heretics.
      And consider whom at that time might have been educated enough to create such a tome.
      The parallels are striking.
      I guess I suggest caution, St. Hildegard lived in a time long way before we had any inkling of chemistry. One can only recall the errors of people who thought they could transmute matter.
      And the effects of chemicals on the body..look up matchsticks, phosphorus and phosphorus jaw.
      When we discovered chemistry and even radioactivity, people were drinking radium...
      We still do stupid things, drug companies constantly push BS based on rubbish trials... .. not to diminish medicine but there is still a lot of BS
      I guess I’m trying to say it’s not got to do with religion here.
      Those saints lived in the era and did the best advising those on health etc the best they knew.
      Some of what they knew still stands. They knew salted meat lasts longer. That’s still true today.
      But some of what they knew about health and science was just plain wrong.

  • @brightrose9405
    @brightrose9405 9 місяців тому +4

    Is the earth bad?i Who created rocks?. Are crystals mentioned in the Book of Revelation.?

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +2

      Exactly! We can admire the objective beauty of what we see, and some created things can have good effects on us. Millions of people admire Crown Jewels for example

  • @CL-un9gg
    @CL-un9gg 9 місяців тому +1

    If someone tell me crystals will heal my back, I’ll be buying crystal chairs 😂

  • @tinakathleen8571
    @tinakathleen8571 9 місяців тому +4

    Actually when our lady of the Immaculate conception appeared to st.Catherine Laboure in 1830 and showed her how she would like her medal to look like our lady was seen with gems/precious stones on her fingers and rays of grace coming out and down. But not all fingers had rays coming down, and St Catherine Laboure asked Mary why this was so, and our blessed mother Mary said these are the graces negeletced to be prayed for and so don't give out. Think about this for a while. We are neglecting to pray for spiritual graces Mary can grace us with, and she was wearing all different coloured gems on her fingers. So there must have something to it?? So take a second look at your mieracupous medal becausse Mary was seen with an aray of gemstones on her fingers when she appeared in Paris 1830. This medal as we well know, is very popular and so maybe we ought to think about how heaven would like us to use crystals, gems??

  • @tomthx5804
    @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому +1

    “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."

    • @CL-un9gg
      @CL-un9gg 9 місяців тому +2

      I don’t see a mention of precious stones.

  • @kathysmith3834
    @kathysmith3834 9 місяців тому +1

    Robert I wonder if the crystal/stones she speaks of are the stones that were on the Jewish high priest’s breast plate. Did not God dictate which stones were to be on it? Interesting consideration.

  • @volusian95
    @volusian95 9 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for this. I really like crystals, even if by mere token of them being beautiful. But there are some people who knee-jerk and act like they're inherently evil or something.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +2

      Catholics need to start thinking again. Reading Catholic history and lives of the Saints, Like St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Hildegard and others.

  • @lydiaspencer3192
    @lydiaspencer3192 2 місяці тому

    Must be uncut diamonds or emeralds. I would think only the rich would have jewels that were cut and put in crowns. Aspirin originally came from the bark of a tree. Now aspirin can really alleviate pain.

  • @CuriousCattery
    @CuriousCattery 6 місяців тому +1

    This is very funny to me, when I was a little secular kid going to a Catholic school I would often put an onyx in my mouth. 😂 Granted I did go down a rabbit hole of occult practices later in life but its good to know at the age of 7 I wasn't already disobeying our Father.

  • @denise1855
    @denise1855 9 місяців тому +2

    I never heard about stones that heal but in the bible it mentions plant for healing

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +3

      St Hildergard in her book discusses many plants.

    • @denise1855
      @denise1855 9 місяців тому

      Thanks

  • @wishIwuzskiing
    @wishIwuzskiing 2 місяці тому

    It sounds like it would be far too easy to slip into believing the "power" is in the physical items and not God. And that leads to the temptation to believe I control them and can get what i want instead of accepting and trusting Gods plan "...thy will be done .." . Blessed sacramentals and Holy Water along with the sacraments seems a much more direct and simpler path with no danger of confusion.

  • @challengable
    @challengable 9 місяців тому +1

    The supernatural aspects of your argument are not to be espoused. In the magisterium I seriously doubt crystals are promoted. Exorcists warn against crystals. I agree. Christ is the healer. Simple and straightforward

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +1

      The magisterium has nothing to say because we used these things for centuries. For example st hildergard talks about using iron to heal, how many times today do doctors give iron to people as medication

    • @challengable
      @challengable 9 місяців тому

      @@thecatholicman I’m sorry, new age is most contrary and antagonistic towards Traditional true Catholicism

  • @jamessmith3635
    @jamessmith3635 9 місяців тому +2

    Never heard of this Saint. Strange I was told that crystal healing was demonic and to dump them

    • @benjaminlquinlan8702
      @benjaminlquinlan8702 9 місяців тому

      Search her music on youtube then consider St Hildagard

    • @tomthx5804
      @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому

      Whoever told you that was right. Do NOT listen to Robert on this one. He is going badly wrong.

    • @CJJPstepintotheblue
      @CJJPstepintotheblue 9 місяців тому

      So was I... I had shungite in our home it's off the property now I pray I found them all

  • @spykezspykez7001
    @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому

    I think I’ve finally gotten what I wanted to say straight in my mind.
    The Saints of old were holy, yes.
    But arguably they lived in the era they did.
    They had the knowledge of their times.
    And perhaps premature for the church to lay claims to practices of the times exclusively.
    It’s not specifically Catholic to say there’s something special about salt.
    We’ve known about it since prehistory. Salting food makes food last longer for one.
    But some, many things the ancients knew about medicine and science, be it alchemy or whatever are just plain wrong.
    They did what they could with the knowledge of their era.
    It’s not got to do with religion or holiness.
    New angers stole nothing from us.

    • @spykezspykez7001
      @spykezspykez7001 9 місяців тому

      Except hearts and minds and souls looking for hope and relief of suffering into their practices....

    • @CL-un9gg
      @CL-un9gg 9 місяців тому +1

      Salt is used to make holy water. Water, salt & consecration by order of the priest. That’s an ancient tradition still used today.

  • @Miss_Elaine_
    @Miss_Elaine_ 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for pointing out that babies are being thrown out with bathwater here.

  • @hannahdavia8791
    @hannahdavia8791 9 місяців тому

    The rappers must be reading St Hildegard 😊

  • @irishgirlintexas
    @irishgirlintexas 9 місяців тому +3

    I guess putting a stone as hard and potentially sharp as a diamond in your mouth could inspire someone to mind their tongue.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +1

      It does seem like an interesting conclusion.

  • @jmorgan5984
    @jmorgan5984 8 місяців тому

    🤔She is very inspirational and he gives it a humerus twist.😂

  • @CrummyX1000
    @CrummyX1000 9 місяців тому +1

    I read somewhere once that crystals are natural things but the devil will use them.Hence new age.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому

      Since they are usually sold in new age shops or witchcraft shops, then you don't know who has used them or what spell was put on them. So not a good thing to go buying them because those are the locations selling them, but if you have a sapphire ring or necklace etc.. that is something different,

  • @janicewilliams2922
    @janicewilliams2922 9 місяців тому +2

    Stay away from the stones and crystals !!!!!!!!!

  • @mariebrett2179
    @mariebrett2179 9 місяців тому +2

    I would stay away from these things because people will get into the new age .... i would leave well alone

  • @mariamoments478
    @mariamoments478 9 місяців тому +4

    Whoops.....looks like someone is slipping into the new age😅😅😅

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +1

      The new age has nothing at all of offer me. It’s a liar and begger from the truth

  • @tomthx5804
    @tomthx5804 9 місяців тому +1

    St Hildegard NEVER talked about salt lamps.

    • @thecatholicman
      @thecatholicman  9 місяців тому +2

      No. But there are many modern studies on the benefits of salt. And it’s the ONE cystal that Our Lord actually did talk about

  • @briangalligan7860
    @briangalligan7860 9 місяців тому +2

    Robert listen to ex new Agers you are Way Way Way Way WAY WAY WAY OFF!!!!! The cross and blood 🩸 of Jesus is sufficient I don’t think you understand the cross fully and what was won on it!!!

    • @briangalligan7860
      @briangalligan7860 9 місяців тому

      @user-tx3ht2te1t The superstitious use of crystals is yet another example of fallen mankind taking what God has created and twisting it for an ungodly purpose. Crystals are striking examples of God’s handiwork. There is nothing wrong with using crystals for home décor or wearing them as jewelry, but there is nothing magical about them. Using crystals for protection or healing is, at its root, an idolatrous practice. It is idolatry because it depends on spiritual forces other than God for healing and protection; in other words, it is the worship of something other than God. Idolatry is repeatedly and strongly forbidden in the Bible (Deuteronomy 4:15-20; Jeremiah 44:1-4; 1 Corinthians 10:14-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16-17).

    • @briangalligan7860
      @briangalligan7860 9 місяців тому

      @user-tx3ht2te1t you don’t have to be a catholic to know this tbh there are thousands of testimonies online of people delivered from this, also if a saints word dosent line up with scripture it means that saint was decieved yes correctly!!! Before they were a saint they were a sinner and when saved they are a liar if no sin is found in them even tho they go from glory to glory! Let’s not put man on a pedestal but God’s word which he puts above his name and honours it and we use it for correction and edification Yes we the church ⛪️ ❤️

    • @briangalligan7860
      @briangalligan7860 9 місяців тому

      The superstitious use of crystals is yet another example of fallen mankind taking what God has created and twisting it for an ungodly purpose. Crystals are striking examples of God’s handiwork. There is nothing wrong with using crystals for home décor or wearing them as jewelry, but there is nothing magical about them. Using crystals for protection or healing is, at its root, an idolatrous practice. It is idolatry because it depends on spiritual forces other than God for healing and protection; in other words, it is the worship of something other than God. Idolatry is repeatedly and strongly forbidden in the Bible (Deuteronomy 4:15-20; Jeremiah 44:1-4; 1 Corinthians 10:14-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16-17).

  • @fatblokeonabicyle9569
    @fatblokeonabicyle9569 9 місяців тому +2

    You’ve left the path Robert! Stop this nonsense and get back to biblical Christianity pal 👍