The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white or violet.
Scripture for the liturgy
1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7/Mk 3:7-12 (314) Day of Prayer options: Lectionary 947A-947E or 887-891.
These references follow the annual calendar, including permitted reading choices. Optional memorials ordinarily retain the weekday readings. The linked daily readings also include the responsorial psalm.
The United States observes a Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children; this observance is not a saint’s memorial. White or violet vestments may be used.
A mystery, a grace, and a virtue
After having invoked the Holy Spirit, in order to properly recite your Rosary, place yourself for a moment in the presence of God and make the offerings of the decades, as you will see hereafter. Before beginning the decade, pause for a moment, more or less, according to your leisure, to consider the mystery that you are celebrating by the decade, and always ask, through this mystery and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, one of the virtues that shine most brightly in this mystery or of which you will have the greatest need.
St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary, Forty-fourth Rose · excerpt
Make this prayer your own
We pray to You, Lord Jesus, by the fifteen mysteries of Your life, death, Passion, and glory, and the merits of Your holy Mother, to convert sinners, to aid the dying, to deliver the souls in purgatory, and to give us all Your grace to live well and die well, and Your glory to see You face to face and to love You throughout eternity. Amen.
St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary · First Method, final prayerOne faithful act
Before each decade, consider its mystery and ask for the virtue you most need.
Pray the RosaryCalendar scope and local observance
Dates, ranks, and reading references follow the official calendar for the dioceses of the United States, with Ascension on Sunday. Diocesan, parish, patronal, and religious-family calendars may differ. Consult your parish for Mass schedules and obligations. The Marian meditation is a devotional aid accompanying the day.