September 24, 2021

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Haggai 2:1-9

2:1	on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius.
2:2	And in the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
2:3	Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remainder of the people, saying:
2:4	Who is left among you, who saw this house in its first glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not, in comparison to that, as nothing in your eyes?
2:5	And now be strengthened, Zerubbabel, says the Lord. And be strengthened, Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strengthened, all people of the land, says the Lord of hosts. For I am with you, says the Lord of hosts.
2:6	And act according to the word that I planted with you when you departed from the land of Egypt. And my Spirit will be in your midst. Do not be afraid.
2:7	For thus says the Lord of hosts: There is yet one brief time, and I will move heaven and earth, and the sea and the dry land.
2:8	And I will move all nations. And the Desired of all nations will arrive. And I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.
2:9	Mine is the silver, and mine is the gold, says the Lord of hosts.

9:18	And it happened that, when he was praying alone, his disciples also were with him, and he questioned them, saying: “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”
9:19	But they answered by saying: “John the Baptist. But some say Elijah. Yet truly, others say that one of the prophets from before has risen again.”
9:20	Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” In response, Simon Peter said, “The Christ of God.”
9:21	But speaking sharply to them, he instructed them not to tell this to anyone,
9:22	saying, “For the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again.”