- “But you,” he said to them, “who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- And I say to you: You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against it.
- I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
- What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his very life? Or what can he give in exchange for his life?
May the Lord, our God, be with us, just as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us or abandon us.