SEPTEMBER 2  Mon Weekday

1 Thes 4:13-18/Lk 4:16-30 

3 Tue Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

Memorial 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11/Lk 4:31-37 

4 Wed Weekday

Col 1:1-8/Lk 4:38-44 

5 Thu Weekday

Col 1:9-14/Lk 5:1-11 

6 Fri Weekday

Col 1:15-20/Lk 5:33-39 

7 Sat Weekday[BVM]

Col 1:21-23/Lk 6:1-5 

8 SUN TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Wis 9:13-18b/ Phlm 9-10, 12-17/Lk 14:25-33 

We begin reading from the Letter to the Colossians this week, a letter Paul wrote from prison to a community he never visited. “Christ is the image of the invisible God,” that beautiful hymn begins the letter. 

We also begin to read from Luke’s gospel. Jesus goes first to Nazareth, then to Capernaum. He was not successful in his own hometown.

Gregory the Great, the greatest of the popes to me, is celebrated on Tuesday.