IF YOU ARE WILLING LORD
Prayer before Mass: Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of Your only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord, in Your great generosity, heal my sickness, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness. May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation. May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power.
Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members.
FIRST READING
Who can
overcome the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Now it happened that Jesus was in one of the towns
when suddenly a man appeared, covered with a skin-disease. Seeing Jesus he fell
on his face and implored him saying, ‘Sir, if you are willing you can cleanse
me.’ He stretched out his hand, and touched him saying, ‘I am willing. Be
cleansed.’ At once the skin-disease left him. He ordered him to tell no one,
‘But go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering for your
cleansing just as Moses prescribed, as evidence to them. But the news of
him kept spreading, and large crowds would gather to hear him and to have their
illnesses cured, but he would go off to some deserted place and pray.
If you are willing Lord Jesus Christ, you can cleanse me. Cleans and purify me Lord. Thank you my Lord and Master, for I know you will take pity upon me. Jesus I Trust in You.
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