Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/17:1 GN 17:1, 9-10, 15-22 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to himand saidand I am God the Almighty.Walk in my presence and be blameless.”God also said to Abrahamand On your part, you and your descendants after youmust keep my covenant throughout the ages.This is my covenant with you and your descendants after youthat you must keepandevery male among you shall be circumcised.”God further said to Abrahamand As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Saraiher name shall be Sarah.I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her.Him also will I bless he shall give rise to nations,and rulers of peoples shall issue from him.”Abraham prostrated himself and laughed as he said to himself, Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old?Or can Sarah give birth at ninety?”Then Abraham said to God, Let but Ishmael live on by your favor!”God repliedand Nevertheless, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son,and you shall call him Isaac.I will maintain my covenant with him as an everlasting pact,to be his God and the God of his descendants after him.As for Ishmael, I am heeding youand I hereby bless him.I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly.He shall become the father of twelve chieftains,and I will make of him a great nation.But my covenant I will maintain with Isaac,whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time next year.”When he had finished speaking with him, God departed from Abraham. Responsorial Psalm and//www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/128and1 PS 128and1-2, 3, 4-5 R. (4)See how the Lord blesses those who fear him.Blessed are you who fear the LORD,who walk in his ways!For you shall eat the fruit of your handiworkblessed shall you be, and favored.R.See how the Lord blesses those who fear him.Your wife shall be like a fruitful vinein the recesses of your homeYour children like olive plantsaround your table.R.See how the Lord blesses those who fear him.Behold, thus is the man blessedwho fears the LORD.The LORD bless you from Zionandmay you see the prosperity of Jerusalemall the days of your life.R.See how the Lord blesses those who fear him. Alleluia and//www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/8:17 MT 8:17 R.Alleluia, alleluia.Christ took away our infirmitiesand bore our diseases.R.Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel and//www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/8and1 MT 8and1-4 When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said, Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, I will do it. Be made clean.”His leprosy was cleansed immediately.Then Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one,but go show yourself to the priest,and offer the gift that Moses prescribedthat will be proof for them.”