3 September 2025 (Wednesday) / Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor on Wednesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time / Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

3 September 2025 (Wednesday)

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor on Wednesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time.

Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church.

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: Colossians 1: 1-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 52: 10, 11
Alleluia: Luke 4: 18
Gospel: Luke 4: 38-44

First Reading : Colossians 1:1‐8

From Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy to the saints in Colossae, our faithful brothers in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. We have never failed to remember you in our prayers and to give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ever since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you show towards all the saints because of the hope which is stored up for you in heaven. It is only recently that you heard of this, when it was announced in the message of the truth. The Good News which has reached you is spreading all over the world and producing the same results as it has among you ever since the day when you heard about God’s grace and understood what this really is. Epaphras, who taught you, is one of our closest fellow workers and a faithful deputy for us as Christ’s servant, and it was he who told us all about your love in the Spirit.

Responsive Psalm : Psalm 51(52):10‐11

I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.

I am like a growing olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.

I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.

I will thank you for evermore; for this is your doing. I will proclaim that your name is good, in the presence of your friends.

I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.

Alleluia: Luke 4: 18
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
18 The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives.
(14. Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside.
15. He taught in their synagogues and everyone glorified him.
16. He came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read,
17. and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:
18. The spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,
19. to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord)
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel : Luke 4:38‐44

Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother‐in‐law was suffering from a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Leaning over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and began to wait on them. At sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them. Devils too came out of many people, howling, ‘You are the Son of God.’ But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ. When daylight came he left the house and made his way to a lonely place. The crowds went to look for him, and when they had caught up with him they wanted to prevent him leaving them, but he answered, ‘I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do.’ And he continued his preaching in the synagogues of Judaea.

For our reflection today:

The Gospel today (cf. Mk 1: 29-39) in close continuity with last Sunday's presents to us Jesus who, after preaching on the Sabbath in the synagogue of Capernaum, heals many sick people, beginning with Simon's mother-in-law. Upon entering Simon's house, he finds her lying in bed with a fever and, by taking her hand, immediately heals her and has her get up. After sunset, he heals a multitude of people afflicted with ailments of every kind. Jesus leaves no room for doubt: God whose Face he himself revealed is the God of life, who frees us from every evil. The signs of his power of love are the healings he performed. He thus shows that the Kingdom of God is close at hand by restoring men and women to their full spiritual and physical integrity. I maintain that these cures are signs: they are not complete in themselves but guide us towards Christ's message, they guide us towards God and make us understand that man's truest and deepest illness is the absence of God, who is the source of truth and love. Only reconciliation with God can give us true healing, true life, because a life without love and without truth would not be life. (Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, 8 February 2009)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed  and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)