The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year B → Year C at Advent · Cycle I. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Is 7:10-14; 8:10/Heb 10:4-10/Lk 1:26-38 (545)
These references follow the annual calendar, including permitted reading choices. Optional memorials ordinarily retain the weekday readings. Daily reading pages for this future year may not yet be published. Use these references with the USCCB Bible, or open the annual calendar.
Enter the Marian mystery
The Annunciation of the Lord
Saint Alphonsus lingers over Mary’s humble answer and the Incarnation of the eternal Word.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
And if we desire to please the Divine Mother, let us salute her often with the Ave Maria.
Make this prayer your own
Behold, O Mary, today I present myself to You, and offer myself wholly to your service, and for the little or much that remains to me to live on this earth; and together with You I renounce all Creatures, and dedicate myself entirely to the Love of my Creator. I consecrate to you then, O Queen, my mind, that it may think always of the Love which You deserve; my tongue, to praise you; my heart, to love you.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · Presentation of Mary, prayer (excerpt)One faithful act
Pray the first Joyful Mystery, asking for profound humility through Mary’s intercession.
Pray the AnnunciationCalendar 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.