--- title: Daily Readings Reflection 2/08/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection 2/08/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/02/08/daily-readings-reflection-20809#) # Daily Readings Reflection 2/08/09 Feb 8, 2009 4:47:21 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Daily Readings Reflection by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/readings/020809.shtml) Scripture: 4th Sunday, Ord. B.  Job 7:1-4,6-7.  Psalm 147:1-2.3-4.5-6. I Cor.9:16-19,22-23. Mark 1:29-39. Lectionary # 75: Job is suffering and is very depressed. His three friends are no help as they try to offer him traditional wisdom from their heritage about suffering and why he is now afflicted. They only add to his misery for they are all judgmental and narrow-minded.  He has no hope.  His situation resembles that of many today who suffer financial losses, are jobless, or are without any personal support from friends.  It is interesting that we relate psychological depression to persons and great financial crises are also called a depression.  All this offers many no hope, no solution.  Does our faith offer us a solution or hope?  Or are we in the same situation as Job is? God's revealing word is found in every page of the Bible, so we must not stop at Job.  The liturgy offers us the Psalm, a reading from Paul, and then the upstart Gospel of Mark.  We do have hope when we read these readings after having read the sorrowful plight of Job.  In our selection from Mark, Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law and she gets up and "ministers" to them.  This may also be a reference for the community of Mark to think of their own baptism and their diakonia or sevice to the house church to which they belong. Peter's mother-in-law is a model for such a response to the healing touch of Jesus which enables her to minister to Jesus and his disciples.  Then as nightfall approaches we hear Jesus continues to heal those who come for help. He turns no one away, but then slips out into the night to find a place where he can have some rest,some solitude from the crowd and a time for prayer to God, his Father. Strengthened by this prayer, he sets out anew on his mission of healing and saving people.  He gives them hope as they see themselves healed and as they see the demons departing from others.  Like the people who search for Jesus, we too are called to fix our eyes on Jesus and to have great trust in his healing powers.  We do have hope. Paul shows himself to be an imitator of Jesus. He becomes all things to all peoples for the sake of the Gospel.  He is compelled to preach it to Jews, Gentiles, to the rich, the poor, to Greeks, to the marginal.  He becomes a friend to each person he meets.  Paul gets his strength from the Gospel that he preaches and from his great commitment through faith to the person of Jesus. He brings hope to all whom he meets. Again, the chosen Psalm offers us a way of praying these Scriptures. "Praise the Lord who heals the brokenhearted!"  For it is good to sing praise to our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.  The Lord doth build up Jerusalem, he gathereth together the dispersed of Israel; Who healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth them all their names. 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