GOSPEL "You are Peter, and I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven" Alleluia. Alleluia.Your name is Peter; I will build my church on this rock. Do not let the gates of hell prevail over it.Alleluia. Matthew 16:18

GOSPEL 

"You are Peter, and I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven" 

Alleluia. Alleluia.

Your name is Peter; I will build my church on this rock. Do not let the gates of hell prevail over it.

Alleluia. Matthew 16:18 

Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 16, 13-23, 

At that time, Jesus, who arrived in the region of Caesarea-Philippi, asked his disciples: "According to the people, who is the Son of man? "They answered:" For some, John the Baptist; for others, Elijah; for still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. "Jesus asked them:" And you, what are you saying? Who am I for you? Then Simon Peter spoke up and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!" "Speaking in his turn, Jesus said to him:" Happy are you, Simon son of Yonas: it is not flesh and blood which have revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you: You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church; and the power of Death will not prevail over it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven: whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. So he ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

From that moment on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem, suffer much at the hands of the elders, high priests and scribes, be killed, and on the third day be resurrected. Peter, taking him aside, began to reproach him sharply: “God forbid, Lord! that won't happen to you. But he, turning around, said to Peter: "Go behind me, Satan!" You are an occasion for me to fall: your thoughts are not those of God, but those of men. " 

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