The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Gal 2:1-2, 7-14/Lk 11:1-4 (463)
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
Our Lady of the Rosary
Saint Louis de Montfort teaches us to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus and Mary and to ask for their fruits.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
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.
Saint 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
Pray five decades with attention to the mysteries and the virtues Saint Louis de Montfort teaches us to seek.
Pray five decadesCalendar 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.