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5 TH . Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Gospel! Gives meaning to life. February 9, 2003. First Reading. "Vita brevis" Life is short. Job 7:1-7. JOB began to speak:. Humans are on earth The days pass swiftly Like a laborer…with no thoughts but his wages
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5TH. Sunday in Ordinary Time The Gospel! Gives meaning to life February 9, 2003
First Reading "Vita brevis" Life is short Job 7:1-7
JOB began to speak: • Humans are on earth • The days pass swiftly • Like a laborer…with no thoughts but his wages • Like a slave…longing for the shade of evening
Months of delusionI have assigned to me • Lying in bed I wonder • When shall the day brake? • Restlessly I fret till twilight falls • My days have passed • Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle • And vanished leaving no hope behind
Remember that my life is but a breath and that my eyes will never again see joy
Second Reading 1 Cor 9:16-23 Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!
I am bound to do it! • I have been trusted this office • I will do it freely • I do not boast of preaching the Gospel
What is my reward? make the GOSPEL known announcing it FREELY
I am free, but I have made myself SLAVE I made myself WEAK "all things to all peaople" to save "SOME" of them
this I do for the GOSPEL! to have a share of it
Gospel Mission in "one day" Mc 1:29-39
From the synagogue to home Simon's mother-in-low was sick with fever. Jesus took her by the hand. The fever left her. She began to wait on them.
That evening, after sunset They brought to him all who were sick - possessed The whole town was pressing around He healed many cast out many devils
He got up before daylight went off to a lonely place and prayed
Let us go elsewhere to the nearby villages to preach there too that is why I CAME!