EasterWeekday

Easter Weekday

Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus and the new life He gives His Church. Rejoice with His Mother in the victory of her Son. Ask her to deepen your hope and help you live as one redeemed: faithful to prayer, quick to forgive, and ready to bear witness to Christ.

Keep this day with Mary

The Church’s prayer today

United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.

Scripture for the liturgy

Acts 15:7-21/Jn 15:9-11 (288)

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.

On the faith of Mary

Faith · Read with the saints

But how are we to imitate this Faith of Mary? Faith is at once a gift and a virtue. It is a gift of God, inasmuch as it is a light which God infuses into the soul; and then a virtue, as regards the exercise which the soul makes of it. Whence Faith has to serve us not only as a rule of believing, but also of acting.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · On the Faith of Mary · excerpt

Make this prayer your own

Grace of the Resurrection, descend into my soul and make it truly faithful.

St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary · First Method, eleventh decade

One faithful act

Let faith govern your actions as well as your beliefs.

Pray a decade with Mary
Calendar 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.

Sources for this teaching