First ReadingJeremiah 20:7-9

O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

℟My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

℟My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Because your merciful love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

℟My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips,

when I think of you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;

℟My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

℟My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Second ReadingRomans 12:1-2

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the

renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 

AlleluiaEphesians 1:17-18

℟Alleluia!

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.

℟Alleluia!

GospelMatthew 16:21-27

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hin­drance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.”

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.