I AM EL SHADDAI

FRIDAY WEEK 12 IN ORDINARY TIME Universalis
‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’

Reading Genesis 17:1,9-10,15-22
The Lord make a covenant and gives Abram and Sarai new names

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai. Bear yourself blameless in my presence, and I will make a Covenant between myself and you. You on your part shall maintain my Covenant, yourself and your descendants after you, generation after generation. Now this is my Covenant which you are to maintain between myself and you, and your descendants after you: all your males must be circumcised.’ 

God said to Abraham, ‘As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah. I will bless her and moreover give you a son by her. I will bless her and nations shall come out of her; kings of peoples shall descend from her.’ Abraham bowed to the ground, and he laughed, thinking to himself, ‘Is a child to be born to a man one hundred years old, and will Sarah have a child at the age of ninety?’ Abraham said to God, ‘Oh, let Ishmael live in your presence!’ But God replied, ‘No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son whom you are to name Isaac. With him I will establish my Covenant, a Covenant in perpetuity, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him. For Ishmael too I grant you your request: I bless him and I will make him fruitful and greatly increased in numbers. He shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. But my Covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear you at this time next year.’ When he had finished speaking to Abraham God went up from him.

Responsorial Psalm: Indeed the man shall be blessed, the man who fears the Lord

Gospel Matthew 8:1-4 'If you want to, you can cure me'

After Jesus had come down from the mountain large crowds followed him. A leper now came up and bowed low in front of him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!’ And his leprosy was cured at once. Then Jesus said to him, ‘Mind you do not tell anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering prescribed by Moses, as evidence for them.’ CDR

Jehovah El Shaddai, my Father, I thank you for your faithfulness and love. Father I adore you. Make me experience your presence, and to know the power of your work in my life. Give me your Holy Spirit, increase my faith. Father I place my trust in you. Help me obey your Son Jesus Christ. 

Lord Jesus I bow before you. Jesus if you want you can cure me. I often doubt your healing power. Yet you love me, you are patient with me. Lord I believe in you, help my unbelief. I commit my life to you. 

Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God’s Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me. Guide me. Protect me.

Pray the Holy Rosary: hail Mary full of grace. Ave Maria.

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