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

<p style="text-align:justify;">The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time </p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Reading 1        ISAIAH 22:19-23</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the book of Prophet Isaiah</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Thus says the LORD to Shebna, master of the palace: “I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah; I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your authority. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. I will place the key of the House of David on Eliakim’s shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut, when he shuts, no one shall open. I will fix him like a peg in a sure spot, to be a place of honor for his family.”</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 11:33-36</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? Or who has given the Lord anything that he may be repaid? For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.</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 16:13-20</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said t