SAINT HENRY DE OSSÓ
"LIVE JESUS. ALL FOR JESUS!"
"The Lord granted me a good soul"
Henry De Ossó said so about himself in some brief autobiographical annotations, written rapidly and by obedience, when he still was very young. And he was right upon telling it. God gave him a good soul, a good heart, good parents… and Henry knew how to invest the gifts he received. He did not have an easy life, but he knew how to surpass the adversities in his adolescence; Once a priest, he carried ahead his apostolic works despite all obstacles, all the envies, slanders and injustices on the part of the representatives of the Church, even through his maturity and his death. Hence he became fortified in his faith. He put hope only in God and started to offer love to everyone, even to his own critics. That is how saints are forged.
During the 55 years of his life, he was a teacher and catechist and, above all, a priest. A diocesan priest compromised with his time and with his nearby environment, but projected always toward the entire world, that almost remained small compared to his passion to extend the knowledge and love of Jesus. He had a teacher of apostolic and spiritual life: Teresa of Jesus. We would almost be able to say that a part of the great Saint of Ávila was embodied in Henry De Ossó and instilled his spirit of prayer, his love for Jesus and, as a consequence of both, the multitude of apostolic works that he carried out during his life.
