The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year A → Year B at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: green.
Scripture for the liturgy
Rv 1:1-4; 2:1-5/Lk 18:35-43 (497)
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
- Saint Margaret of ScotlandOptional Memorial · white
- Saint Gertrude, VirginOptional Memorial · white
Constant devotion
Fourthly, true devotion to the Blessed Virgin is constant: it strengthens a soul in good, and it leads her not to abandon her practices of devotion easily; it makes her courageous in opposing the world in its fashions and maxims, the flesh in its weariness and its passions, and the devil in his temptations; so that a person truly devout to the Blessed Virgin is not at all changeable, fretful, scrupulous, or fearful. It is not that she does not fall, and does not sometimes change in the sensible feeling of her devotion; but if she falls, she rises again by stretching out her hand to her good Mother; if she finds herself without taste or sensible devotion, she does not trouble herself at all over it: for the just man and the faithful devotee of Mary lives by the faith of Jesus and of Mary, and not by the feelings of the body.
Make this prayer your own
Grace of the Crowning of Mary, descend into my soul and make it truly persevering until the end.
St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary · First Method, fifteenth decadeOne faithful act
Persevere in your practices of devotion; if you fall, turn to Mary and rise again.
Return to the RosaryCalendar 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.