First reading
Job 7:1–4, 6–7
My life is but a breath.
Responsorial psalm
Psalm 146(147):1–6
R. Praise the Lord, who heals the broken-hearted.
Second reading
1 Corinthians 9:16–19, 22–23
I should be punished if I did not preach the Gospel.
Gospel acclamation
Matthew 8:17
He bore our sickness, and endured our suffering.
Gospel
Mark 1:29–39
He cast out devils and cured many who were suffering from disease.
Images from the Word
- Helped her up
- Cured many
- Why I came
- Nights of grief
- Slave of everyone
Liturgical notes
Even though the faithful no longer bring from their own possessions the bread and wine intended for the liturgy as was once the case, nevertheless the rite of carrying up the offerings still keeps its spiritual efficacy and significance. Even money or other gifts for the poor or for the Church, brought by the faithful or collected in the church, are acceptable.
—General Instruction of the Roman Missal, §73
Out of the practice of the faithful providing the bread and wine from the work of their own hands has developed our practice today of making a collection, usually by way of money, and then processing it to the altar along with the bread and wine needed for this celebration. It is important that these two processions are united so that the gifts of the community are linked with the actual altar of the celebration. By this unity the people recognise that they too are making sacrifice and are then caught up with the consecration of the bread and wine to be the Body of Christ.
‘O come, let us worship God and bow low before the God who made us, for he is the Lord our God’
—entrance antiphon