The 3rd of September, 2021, Friday is the Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: COL 1:15-20
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Colossians.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him, and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 100:1-2, 3, 4, 5
Response: Come before his presence with singing.
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
R: Come before his presence with singing.
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
R: Come before his presence with singing.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
R: Come before his presence with singing.
For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
R: Come before his presence with singing.
Gospel of the Day: LK 5:33-39
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.
But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’_”
