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| "The Primacy of Saint Peter" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Isaiah
50: 5 - 9
5
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone
back.
6
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that
plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked
me, and spit upon me.
7
The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore
have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not
be confounded.
8
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand
together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
9
Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me?
Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them
up.
PSALM:
Psalms 116:
1 - 6, 8 - 9
1
I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
2
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call
upon him.
3
The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have
found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
4
And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
5
The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
6
The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered
me.
8
For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet
from falling.
9
I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
SECOND
READING: James 2:
14 - 18
14
What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but
hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?
15
And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:
16
And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet
give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what
shall it profit?
17
So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
18
But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy
faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.
GOSPEL:
Mark 8:
27 - 35
27
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea
Philippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them:
Whom do men say that I am?
28
Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and
others as one of the prophets.
29
Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter answering
said to him: Thou art the Christ.
30
And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of
him.
31
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many
things, and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests, and
the scribes, and be killed: and after three days rise again.
32
And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke
him.
33
Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying:
Go behind me, Satan, because thou savorest not the things that are of
God, but that are of men.
34
And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to
them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross, and follow me.
35
For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall
lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.
