The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year B → Year C at Advent · Cycle I. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Ex 3:13-20/Mt 11:28-30 (392)
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.
On the faith of Mary
But how are we to imitate this Faith of Mary? Faith is at once a gift and a virtue. It is a gift of God, inasmuch as it is a light which God infuses into the soul; and then a virtue, as regards the exercise which the soul makes of it. Whence Faith has to serve us not only as a rule of believing, but also of acting.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · On the Faith of Mary · excerpt
Hear a saint remembered today
If you could hear the Virgin singing for joy, climb the hills with your Lady, and behold the tender embrace and greeting of the barren woman and the Virgin, where the little servant recognized the Lord, the herald the Judge, the voice the Word: I think you would then sweetly sing with the most blessed Virgin that sacred canticle, “My soul magnifies the Lord,” and, rejoicing with the little Prophet, adore the wondrous Child conceived in the Virgin.
Make this prayer your own
Grace of the Resurrection, descend into my soul and make it truly faithful.
St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary · First Method, eleventh decadeOne faithful act
Let faith govern your actions as well as your beliefs.
Pray a decade with MaryCalendar 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.