Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
04th February 2024 (Sunday)
Psalter: Week 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Job 7:1-4, 6-7 |
| Response | Praise the Lord who heals the brokenhearted. |
| Second Reading | 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 |
| Gospel | Mark 1:29-39 |
First Reading
Job 7:1-4, 6-7
Job spoke, saying: “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope. Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R. see 3a)
R/. Praise the Lord who heals the brokenhearted.
How good to sing psalms to our God;
How pleasant to chant fitting praise!
The Lord builds up Jerusalem
and brings back Israel’s exiles. R/.
He heals the brokenhearted;
he binds up all their wounds.
He counts out the number of the stars;
he calls each one by its name. R/.
Our Lord is great and almighty;
his wisdom can never be measured.
The Lord lifts up the lowly;
he casts down the wicked to the ground. R/.
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23
Brethren: If I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
Alleluia
Matthew 8:17
V/. Alleluia R/. Alleluia
V/. Christ took our illnesses and bore our diseases.
R/. Alleluia
Gospel
Mark 1:29-39
At that time: Jesus left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. That evening at sunset they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. And the whole city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is what I came for.” And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
