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First
reading |
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Job 7:1-4,6-7 · |
My
life is but a breath
Job began to speak:
Is not man’s life on earth
nothing more than pressed service,
his time no
better than hired drudgery?
Like the slave, sighing for
the shade,
or the workman
with no thought but his wages,
months of delusion I have
assigned to me,
nothing for my
own but nights of grief.
Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When
will it be day?’
Risen I think,
‘How slowly evening comes!’
Restlessly I fret
till twilight falls.
Swifter than a weaver’s
shuttle my days have passed,
and vanished,
leaving no hope behind.
Remember that my life is but
a breath,
and that my eyes
will never again see joy.
The word of the Lord.
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Responsorial Psalm |
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Psalm
146(147):1-6 |
Praise the Lord who heals
the broken-hearted.
sing to our God for he is loving:
to him our praise is due.
Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted.
and brings back Israel’s exiles,
he heals the broken-hearted,
he binds up all their wounds.
He fixes the number of the stars;
he calls each one by its name.
Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted.
his wisdom can never be measured.
The Lord raises the lowly;
he humbles the wicked to the dust.
Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted.
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Second reading |
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1
Corinthians 9:16-19,22-23 |
I should be punished if I did not
preach the Gospel
I do not boast of preaching
the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished
if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been
paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into
my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching, to be
able to offer the Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the gospel
gives me.
So
though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as
to win as many as I could. For the weak I made myself weak: I made myself all
things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and I still do this, for
the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.
The word of the Lord.
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Gospel Acclamation |
Jn8:12 |
I am the light of the world, says the Lord;
anyone who follows me will have the light of life.
Alleluia!
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Or: |
Mt8:17 |
He took our sicknesses away,
and carried our diseases for us.
Alleluia!
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Gospel |
Mark
1:29-39 |
He cast out devils and cured many
who were suffering from disease
On leaving the synagogue,
Jesus went with James and John straight to the house of Simon and Andrew. Now
Simon’s mother-in-law had gone to bed with fever, and they told him about her
straightaway. He went to her, took her by the hand and helped her up. And the
fever left her and she began to wait on them.
That
evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were
possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured
many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out
many devils, but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he
was.
In
the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a
lonely place and prayed there. Simon and his companions set out in search of
him, and when they found him they said, ‘Everybody is looking for you.’ He
answered, ‘Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I
can preach there too, because that is why I came.’ And he went all through
Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out devils.
The Gospel of the Lord.
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