Saint Henry, Bishop and Martyr

1After these things, a man from the house of Levi went out, and he took a wife from his own stock. 2And she conceived and bore a son. And seeing him to be handsome, she hid him for three months. 3And when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a small basket woven of bulrushes, and she smeared it with pitch as well as tar. And she placed the little infant inside, and she laid him in the sedges by the bank of the river. 4His sister was standing at a distance and was wondering what would happen. 5Then, behold, the daughter of Pharaoh descended to wash in the river. And her maids walked along the edge of the cove. And when she had seen the small basket among the papyruses, she sent one of her servants for it. And when it was brought, 6she opened it; and realizing that within it was a little one crying, she took pity on him, and she said: “This is one of the infants of the Hebrews.” 7And the sister of the boy said to her: “If you wish, I will go and call to you a Hebrew woman, who will be able nurse the infant.” 8She responded, “Go.” The maid went directly and called her mother. 9And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her: “Take this boy and nurse him for me. I will give you your wages.” The woman took and nursed the boy. And when he was mature, she delivered him to the daughter of Pharaoh. 10And she adopted him in place of a son, and she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I took him from the water.” 11In those days, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers. And he saw their affliction and an Egyptian man striking a certain one of the Hebrews, his brothers. 12And when he had looked around this way and that, and had seen no one nearby, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13And going out the next day, he spotted two Hebrews quarrelling violently. And he said to him who was causing the injury, “Why do you strike your neighbor?” 14But he responded: “Who appointed you as leader and judge over us? Do you want to kill me, just as yesterday you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and he said, “How has this word become known?” 15And Pharaoh heard this talk, and he sought to kill Moses. But fleeing from his sight, he stayed in the land of Midian, and he sat down next to a well.

3I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

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14But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.

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30I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

31I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

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33Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

34For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

20Then he began to rebuke the cities in which many of his miracles were accomplished, for they still had not repented. 21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in haircloth and ashes. 22Yet truly, I say to you, Tyre and Sidon shall be forgiven more than you, on the day of judgment. 23And you, Capernaum, would you be exalted all the way to heaven? You shall descend all the way to Hell. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, perhaps it would have remained, even to this day. 24Yet truly, I say to you, that the land of Sodom shall be forgiven more than you, on the day of judgment.”