Saturday, 03th February,
2018
5th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
JOB 7:1-4, 6-7
1 Is not human life on
earth just conscript service? Do we not live a hireling's life?
2 Like a slave, sighing
for the shade, or a hireling with no thought but for his wages,
3 I have months of
futility assigned to me, nights of suffering to be my lot.
4 Lying in bed I
wonder, 'When will it be day?' No sooner up than, 'When will evening come?' And
crazy thoughts obsess me till twilight falls.
6 Swifter than a
weaver's shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving no hope behind.
7 Remember that my life
is but a breath, and that my eyes will never again see joy.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 147:1-6
1 Alleluia! Praise
Yahweh -- it is good to sing psalms to our God -- how pleasant to praise him.
2 Yahweh, Builder of
Jerusalem! He gathers together the exiles of Israel,
3 healing the
broken-hearted and binding up their wounds;
4 he counts out the
number of the stars, and gives each one of them a name.
5 Our Lord is great,
all-powerful, his wisdom beyond all telling.
6 Yahweh sustains the
poor, and humbles the wicked to the ground.
Second Reading
First Corinthians
9:16-19, 22-23
16 In fact, preaching
the gospel gives me nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion and I should
be in trouble if I failed to do it.
17 If I did it on my own
initiative I would deserve a reward; but if I do it under compulsion I am
simply accepting a task entrusted to me.
18 What reward do I
have, then? That in my preaching I offer the gospel free of charge to avoid
using the rights which the gospel allows me.
19 So though I was not a
slave to any human being, I put myself in slavery to all people, to win as many
as I could.
22 To the weak, I made
myself weak, to win the weak. I accommodated myself to people in all kinds of
different situations, so that by all possible means I might bring some to
salvation.
23 All this I do for the
sake of the gospel, that I may share its benefits with others.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 1:29-39
29 And at once on
leaving the synagogue, he went with James and John straight to the house of
Simon and Andrew.
30 Now Simon's
mother-in-law was in bed and feverish, and at once they told him about her.
31 He went in to her,
took her by the hand and helped her up. And the fever left her and she began to
serve them.
32 That evening, after
sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by
devils.
33 The whole town came
crowding round the door,
34 and he cured many who
were sick with diseases of one kind or another; he also drove out many devils,
but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was.
35 In the morning, long
before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place and
prayed there.
36 Simon and his
companions set out in search of him,
37 and when they found
him they said, 'Everybody is looking for you.'
38 He answered, 'Let us
go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I can proclaim the
message there too, because that is why I came.'
39 And he went all
through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out devils.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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