In her programme "There's more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye," Jill Bevilacqua
brings us readings and reflections to mark the 22nd Sunday of the Year in Ordinary
Time.
Listen:
Gospel Mt
16:21-27 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to
Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the
scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter
took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing
shall ever happen to you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get
behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God
does, but as human beings do.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever
wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow
me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for
one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can
one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his
angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay all according to his
conduct.”