The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Ez 43:1-7ab/Mt 23:1-12 (424)
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 Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
With Saint Alphonsus, honor Mary as the Mother of the King and the Queen of Mercy.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
Mary, then, is Queen; but let everyone know, for our common consolation, that she is a Queen all sweetness, clemency, and inclined to the good of us wretched ones. Therefore Holy Church wills that in this prayer we salute her and call her the Queen of Mercy.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary, Part I, Chapter I, Hail, Holy Queen (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.
Renew your consecrationCalendar 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.