First ReadingEcclesiastes 3:1-11

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;  a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. What gain has the worker from his toil?

I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 144:1-2, 3-4

℟Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

my mercy and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

℟Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!

O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

℟Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!

AlleluiaMark 10:45

℟Alleluia!

For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

℟Alleluia!

GospelLuke 9:18-22

Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him; and he asked them, “Who do the people say that I am?” And they answered, “John the Baptist; but others say, Eli′jah; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen.” And he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.” But he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”