The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Gn 3:9-15, 20 or Acts 1:12-14/Jn 19:25-34 (572A)
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.
Enter the Marian mystery
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Saint Alphonsus describes Mary’s motherhood of the Church at Calvary, where the Head and His members are joined.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
This devotion consists, then, in giving oneself entirely to the Most Blessed Virgin, in order to be entirely Jesus Christ’s through her.
Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §121 (excerpt)
Make this prayer your own
Permit me, then, to say to you: my mother, my most amiable mother. So I call you, and so I will always call you. You, after God, are to be always my hope, my refuge, and my love in this valley of tears.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · Mary Our Mother, prayer (excerpt)One faithful act
Pray the act of consecration to Jesus through Mary, remembering the needs of the Church.
Offer yourself for the ChurchCalendar 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.