Daily Reading for Sunday, February 7th, 2021

Daily Reading for Sunday February 7, 2021

Reading 1, Job 7:1-4, 6-7
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel, Mark 1:29-39
Reading 2, First Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23

Reading 1, 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.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

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.

Gospel, 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.

Reading 2, 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.

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