I had enormous frustration playing The Wisdom Clock of the Hours by Henry Suso. The cause of this difficulty is somewhat puzzling. Suso does not write in a particularly difficult style, nor is the subject matter too abstract to understand. Instead, my difficulties arise from two separate, but related, issues. The first is the lack of a definitive conclusion to the discussions of the first book. After approximately one hundred and sixty pages of dialogue between Wisdom and the Disciple, Suso fails to provide an answer to the question of what exactly the reader is expected to do regarding the meditations that precede the rather abrupt end of the book. The text seems maddeningly incomplete. This isn't helped by the second problem, the disjunction between the tone and apparent purpose of books one and two. Where the first book was a mystical examination of the Passion of Christ, the relationship of Christ as Wisdom to the soul, and some other topics it touches upon briefly, such as the nature of heaven and hell, the second book deals with very more practical. , to the point of establishing specific prayers to be said at certain times of the day. Furthermore, the second book barely touches on the Passion, which was the core of the first two-thirds of Wisdom's Watch. Despite these differences, Suso obviously intended the two books to complement each other. Therefore, I suggest reading the first book through the second, in order to gain in-depth insight into the overall purpose and meaning behind Suso's text. The subject matter of the first Wisdom's Watch book is quite easy to discern. In fact, Suso himself tells us: “The subject of this first book is the most precious Passion of Christ, which itself moves... in the center of the paper... The whole purpose of the Clock of Wisdom, therefore, is preparatory. The exercises, the contemplation of the Passion, the imitation of Christ internally commanded can only serve to better prepare you for the visit of God, which Suso imagines most likely to happen during the Eucharist. However, only God can determine if and when the union of soul and Wisdom can occur. As Wisdom says to the disciple: Because more often, when the spirit becomes anxious in seeking me, in seeking it does not find; but when he least expects it, he will have his beloved as a gift."9 The Guard of Wisdom concluded with the disciple's plea to have mercy on him and to grant him the union for which he has so ardently worked and so fervently desires, and ultimately the message of the text is that this is the best we can do. Works Cited Suso, Henry Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours