--- title: "Mass Readings for September 3, 2027: St. Gregory the Great" url: https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/03/ description: "September 3, 2027: St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church, Year B, Cycle I, white. Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 5:33-39. Gospel in the CPDV." updated: 2026-10-20 --- 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. Updated October 20, 2026 ## 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 Reading: Colossians 1:15-20 - 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. - 16 For 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. - 17 And he is before all, and in him all things continue. - 18 And 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. - 19 For the Father is well-pleased that all fullness reside in him, - 20 and 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. Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Colossians 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/colossians/1/) ### Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5 Read in the CPDV: [Psalm 100 (99 in the Vulgate)](https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/99/) ### Alleluia: John 8:12 Read in the CPDV: [John 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/john/8/) ### Gospel: Luke 5:33-39 - 33 But 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?” - 34 And he said to them: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them? - 35 But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.” - 36 Then 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. - 37 And 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. - 38 Instead, the new wine is put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. - 39 And no one who is drinking the old, soon wishes for the new. For he says, ‘The old is better.’” Catholic Public Domain Version Read in the CPDV: [The whole of Luke 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/luke/5/) 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. Spotted a wrong date, color or citation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here. ## Saint of the day [St. Gregory the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) Pope and Doctor of the Church · Feast day September 3 [Read about St. Gregory the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) [September 2027, day by day](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/) [Liturgical calendar 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/) [Today in the Church](https://blessbible.app/today/) [Previous day Thu, Sep 2](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/02/) [Next day Sat, Sep 4](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/04/)