From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   March 2nd - Blessed Henry Suzo, Confessor   
      
   (1300-1366)   
      
   Blessed Henry Suzo was born in 1300 at Constance in Germany. There he   
   entered   
   the Dominican convent at the age of thirteen, and made his preparatory   
   studies   
   in the sacred disciplines. In 1327 he became a teacher of theology, and in   
   1334   
   began preaching. In 1343 he was elected prior of a convent at Diessenhofen.   
   Blessed Henry is known especially as a mystic who regarded himself as the   
   servant of Eternal Wisdom become Man. He practiced severe austerities and   
   experienced, along with his visions and ecstasies, bitter persecutions and   
   grievous calumnies.   
      
   He assisted in the restoration of strict religious observance in the   
   cloisters,   
   especially in the Dominican convents for women at Katherinentahl and Töss.   
   One   
   of the Superiors in these convents preserved most of his letters and   
   obtained   
   the history of his life, which he himself later edited and published. As a   
   preacher he was highly esteemed in many Swiss and Dutch cities. It is said   
   that   
   for 150 years there was no book of meditation more widely read in the German   
   language than his "Little Book of Eternal Wisdom". Blessed Henry translated   
   this work into Latin as well, and added at that time to its contents.   
      
   He died in 1366; 250 years later, in 1613, workers in the old convent at Ulm   
   found his body perfectly conserved and emitting a pleasant fragrance.   
   Unfortunately the non-Catholic authorities of the city had the tomb closed;   
   and   
   the Bollandists, famous hagiographists of 19th century France, wrote in 1882   
   that no trace was any longer known of it. He was declared Blessed in 1831 by   
   Pope Gregory XVI.   
      
   Sources: The Catholic Encyclopedia, edited by C. G. Herbermann with numerous   
   collaborators (Appleton Company: New York, 1908); Les Petits Bollandistes:   
   Vies   
   des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 3.   
      
      
   Saint Quote "All those who have truly wished to arrive at the possession of   
   humility  have applied themselves with all their power to the practice of   
   humiliation,  because they know that this is the quickest and shortest road   
   thereto"  -St. Bernard   
      
   The blessed Alessandro Sauli, Bishop of Aleria, a man of learning and   
   esteemed   
   in his Order, willingly occupied himself, even when he was Superior, in   
   humble   
   employments such as sweeping the house, washing the dishes, drawing water,   
   bringing wood to the kitchen, working in the garden, serving the old and the   
   sick, carrying heavy burdens on his back, taking charge of the door, ringing   
   the bells, or helping the sacristan. When, on account of preaching or other   
   spiritual works, he was at any time prevented from performing these daily   
   exercises, he was accustomed to supply the omission by doing double work on   
   the   
   next day.   
      
   (Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". February - Humility)   
      
   Bible Quote: 13. And they brought to him young children, that he might touch   
   them. And  the disciples rebuked them that brought them. 14. Whom when Jesus   
   saw, he was  much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children   
   to   
   come unto me,  and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. 15.   
   Amen   
   I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little   
   child,   
   shall not enter into it. (Mark 10:13-15)   
      
      
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   Daily Thoughts and Prayers for Our Beloved Dead   
      
   "Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand   
   of   
   the Lord hath touched me" Job. 19-21.   
      
      
   SIXTEENTH DAY   
      
   SL Paul, in his Epistle to the Corinthians (I Cor. 111:13-15), tells us,   
   "Every   
   man's work shall be manifest, for the day of the Lord shall declare it,   
   because   
   it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall try every man's work of   
   what   
   sort it is. If a man's work bum, he shall suffer loss; but he shall be   
   saved,   
   yet so as to fire."   
      
   Prayers:  Our Father, Three Hail Marys, Gloria, De Profundis.   
      
   De Profundis   
      
      Out of the depths, I have cried to Thee, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice.   
   Let   
   Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.    If Thou, O Lord,   
   shalt mark my iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand it?    For with Thee there   
   is   
   merciful forgiveness: and by reason of Thy law I have waited for Thee, O   
   Lord.   
   My soul hath relied on His word;  my soul hath hoped in the Lord.    From   
   the   
   morning watch even until night; let Israel hope in the Lord. Because with   
   the   
   Lord there is mercy; And with Him plenteous redemption.    And He shall   
   redeem   
   Israel from all its iniquities.    Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, And   
   let   
   perpetual light shine upon them:    May they rest in peace. Amen.   
      
   O Lord Jesus, have mercy on the Souls in Purgatory who suffer because of   
   some   
   slight human frailty. Deliver them from their agonies, that they may   
   forevermore praise and glorify Thee in Heaven. Amen.   
      
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