*Sacred Scripture* Jacob Wrestling With An Angel – Rembrandt
April 3
Jacob wrestles with an angel, after which the angel says, “Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men” (Genesis, 32:28). This depiction of Jacob struggling with the angel is by Rembrandt.
Gn 32:23-33
Jacob’s New Name.*
23That night, however, Jacob arose, took his two wives, with the two maidservants and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
24After he got them and brought them across the wadi and brought over what belonged to him,
25Jacob was left there alone. Then a man* wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
26When the man saw that he could not prevail over him, he struck Jacob’s hip at its socket, so that Jacob’s socket was dislocated as he wrestled with him.d
27The man then said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.”
28“What is your name?” the man asked. He answered, “Jacob.”e
29Then the man said, “You shall no longer be named Jacob, but Israel,* because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed.”
30Jacob then asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He answered, “Why do you ask for my name?” With that, he blessed him.
31Jacob named the place Peniel,* “because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”f
32At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.
33That is why, to this day, the Israelites do not eat the sciatic muscle that is on the hip socket, because he had struck Jacob’s hip socket at the sciatic muscle.
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/32
Saying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always.
1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel:
*While you are on this earth, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks.
2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias:
*They began to sing hymns of praise, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them.
3-A simple Jesus prayer:
*Lord, Lord, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful.
4-Another prayer:
*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God.
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.”
Is 2:2–3A