Thursday, September 3, 2020
O God, who care for your people with gentleness
and rule them in love,
through the intercession of Pope Saint Gregory,
endow, we pray, with a spirit of wisdom
those to whom you have given authority to govern,
that the flourishing of a holy flock
may become the eternal joy of the shepherds.
-- collect on the Obligatory Memorial
of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
celebrated on September 3