Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.5-9a
The Lord God has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious, nor have I turned back.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
He is near who justifies me;
who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God will help me.
Who shall condemn me?
Responsorial – Psalm 116.1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Resp. 9
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
I love the Lord, because he listens
to my voice and my cries for mercy.
Because he has turned his ear to me,
when I call on him.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The cords of death surrounded me,
the pains of Sheol got hold of me.
I found trouble and sorrow.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
The Lord is gracious and righteous.
Yes, our God is merciful.
The Lord preserves the simple.
I was brought low, and he saved me.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
R. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. or R. Alleluia!
Reading 2 – James 2.14-18
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says they have faith but not works?
Faith cannot save them, can it?
And if a brother or sister is naked and lacks basic food,
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well-fed”,
but you do not give them the things the body needs,
what good is that?
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead according to its own nature.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.”
Show me your faith separate from works,
and I will show you, by my works, my faith.
Gospel – Mark 8.27-35
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do humans say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He spoke to them openly.
Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him.
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan!
For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of humans.”
Jesus called the crowd to himself with his disciples, and said to them:
“Whoever wants to come after me,
let them deny themself, and take up their cross, and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it;
and whoever will lose their life
for my sake and the sake of the Gospel
will save it.”
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