Bagels & Bible Study - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

<p style="text-align:justify;">The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> Reading 1     JEREMIAH 20:7-9</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the book of Prophet Jeremiah</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the LORD has brought me derision and reproach all the day.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 2     Romans 12:1-2</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The word of the Lord.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Gospel     Matthew 16:21-27</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">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 P