The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: green.
Scripture for the liturgy
1 Kgs 19:19-21/Mt 5:33-37 (364) or, for the Optional Memorial of the Immaculate Heart, 1 Kgs 19:19-21 (364)/Lk 2:41-51 (573)
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.
Permitted observances today
- The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional Memorial · white
- Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the ChurchOptional Memorial · white
- The Blessed Virgin Mary on SaturdayOptional Memorial · white
Enter the Marian mystery
The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint Alphonsus teaches the love of Mary’s heart; Saint Louis de Montfort asks her to lend us that heart to receive Jesus.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
You will beseech this good Mother to lend you her heart, in order to receive her Son there in her own dispositions.
Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §266 (excerpt)
Make this prayer your own
I take you for my all. Give me your heart, O Mary!
St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion to Mary §266One faithful act
Read the established First Saturdays devotion and prepare to fulfill its acts of reparation.
Prepare for the First SaturdaysCalendar 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.