St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church · Memorial
Mass Readings for Friday, September 3, 2027
On Friday, September 3, 2027, the Church in the United States celebrates the memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (Cycle I); the liturgical color is white. The Gospel is Luke 5:33-39.
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The liturgical day
Liturgical color
White
Celebration
St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Season
Ordinary Time · Week 22
Rank
Memorial
Sunday cycle
Year B
Weekday cycle
Cycle I
Mass readings US
First ReadingColossians 1:15-20
15He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.
16For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him.
17And he is before all, and in him all things continue.
18And he is the head of his body, the Church. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that in all things he may hold primacy.
19For the Father is well-pleased that all fullness reside in him,
20and that, through him, all things be reconciled to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, for the things that are on earth, as well as the things that are in heaven.
33But they said to him, “Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees act similarly, while yours eat and drink?”
34And he said to them: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them?
35But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.”
36Then he also made a comparison for them: “For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Otherwise, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one.
37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine ruptures the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be lost.
38Instead, the new wine is put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
39And no one who is drinking the old, soon wishes for the new. For he says, ‘The old is better.’”
Computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.
In US parishes the readings are proclaimed from the NABRE; the text shown here is the Catholic Public Domain Version.
Old Testament readings and the psalm are listed with a link to their chapter: the US Lectionary numbers some of their verses differently from the CPDV, so their text is not printed here. Psalm citations keep the Lectionary’s Hebrew numbering; the CPDV numbers the Psalms as the Vulgate does.
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