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Friday, September 3, 2027

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

The liturgical day

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

Memorial
Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: White

The Mass readings

First reading: Colossians 1:15-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5
Gospel: Luke 5:33-39

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

First reading: Colossians 1:15-20

Douay-Rheims: Colossians 1:15-20

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: ¹⁶For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him. ¹⁷And he is before all, and by him all things consist. ¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy: ¹⁹Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell: ²⁰And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 99:2-5 (Psalm 100 at Mass)

²Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. ³Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: ⁵For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Gospel: Luke 5:33-39

Douay-Rheims: Luke 5:33-39

³³And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink? ³⁴To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast, whilst the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then shall they fast in those days. ³⁶And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old. ³⁷And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost. ³⁸But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. ³⁹And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

September 2027

September 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1, Wednesday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	2, Thursday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	3, Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white, this page	4, Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
5, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	6, Monday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	7, Tuesday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	8, The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white	9, Saint Peter Claver, Priest, liturgical color white	10, Friday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	11, Saturday of the twenty-third week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
12, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	13, Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white	14, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, liturgical color red	15, Our Lady of Sorrows, liturgical color white	16, Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, liturgical color red	17, Friday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	18, Saturday of the twenty-fourth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
19, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang and Companions, Martyrs, liturgical color red	21, Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, liturgical color red	22, Wednesday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	23, Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest, liturgical color white	24, Friday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	25, Saturday of the twenty-fifth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
26, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	27, Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest, liturgical color white	28, Tuesday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	29, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels, liturgical color white	30, Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church, liturgical color white

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Saint of the day

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the ChurchMemorial. Died in 604.

A word for the day

Leave vain things to vain men, and mind thou the things which God hath commanded thee.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, chapter 20. Translated by William Benham. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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