The twenty-second Sunday in ordinary time

First Reading: Jeremiah 20. 7-9: The word of the Lord has become for me reproach and derision

Responsorial Psalm: 63.1, 2-3,4-5, 7-8 (R. 1a) 

Response: 

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Second Reading: Romans 12.1-2: Present your bodies as a living sacrifice

 Gospel Acclamation:

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Gospel: Matthew 16.21-27: If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves

 Hymn: New every morning is the love

 [Choir of Sheffield Cathedral]

Words: John Keble (1792-1866)
Tune: MELCOMBE     Samuel Webbe the elder (1740-1816)

 1.       New every morning is the love
            our wakening and uprising prove;
            through sleep and darkness safely brought,
            restored to life and power and thought.

2.       New mercies, each returning day,
            hover around us while we pray;
            new perils past, new sins forgiven,
            new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

 3.       If on our daily course our mind
            be set to hallow all we find,
            new treasures still, of countless price,
            God will provide for sacrifice.

4.       The trivial round, the common task,
            would furnish all we ought to ask,
            room to deny ourselves, a road
            to bring us daily nearer God. 

5.       Only, O Lord, in thy dear love
            fit us for perfect rest above;
            and help us, this and every day,
            to live more nearly as we pray.

Angus Gordon