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Summary
- Short prayers cover the first day of September, the family, returning to work, the new school year, the change of season, new plans, illness and grief, and peace at home.
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer gives a thanksgiving for the harvest, “for the return of seed-time and harvest,” and Psalm 65:11 says, “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.”
- The Orthodox Church begins its year on 1 September (14 September on the old calendar) and prays that God will “bless thou the crown of the year with thy goodness.”
- Since 2015 the Catholic Church has kept 1 September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
- September feasts include the Nativity of Mary (8th), the Exaltation of the Cross (14th), Saint Matthew (21st), Michaelmas (29th) and Saint Jerome (30th), whose feast is why many Spanish-speaking Catholics call September the month of the Bible.
- September is not in the Bible; the Hebrew seventh month, Ethanim or Tishri, usually falls in September or October.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 8:22; Exodus 13:21; Leviticus 23:24; 1 Kings 8:2; Psalm 65:11; 90:12; 121:8; Proverbs 16:3; Lamentations 3:22–23; Matthew 9:9; Luke 4:16–22). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. “A Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Fruits of the Earth,” p. 50; collects for Saint Matthew, p. 250, and Saint Michael and all Angels, p. 251. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. “The Feasts and Fasts of the Church,” pp. xiii–xiv; “The Elevation of the Precious Cross,” p. 167; “The Office of Thanksgiving at the New Year,” pp. 535–538. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Orthodox Church in America. “Church New Year.” https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/01/501-church-new-year ; “Church New Year: Troparion and Kontakion.” https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2026/09/01/501-church-new-year
- Francis. Letter for the Institution of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 6 August 2015. https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20150806_lettera-giornata-cura-creato.html
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Proper of feasts, Nativity of the B. V. M. (September 8) and St. Michael, Archangel (September 29). https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Catholic Culture. “Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14.” https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2025-09-14
- Saltet, Louis. “St. Jerome.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm
- Librería Paulinas. “Mes de septiembre, mes de la Biblia.” https://librerias.paulinas.es/pastoral/mes-de-septiembre-mes-de-la-biblia/
- Second Vatican Council. Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, 18 November 1965, paragraph 25. https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html
- Hebcal. “Hebrew month of Tishrei.” https://www.hebcal.com/home/4625/hebrew-month-of-tishrei
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