The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year B → Year C at Advent · Cycle I. Liturgical color: green.
Scripture for the liturgy
Ex 11:10—12:14/Mt 12:1-8 (393)
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.
Permitted observances today
- Our Lady of Mount CarmelOptional Memorial · white
Enter the Marian mystery
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Saint Alphonsus explains the Scapular as a sign of dedication to the service of the Mother of God.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
Thirdly, true devotion to the Blessed Virgin is holy, that is to say, it leads a soul to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of the Most Blessed Virgin, particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience, her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelic sweetness, and her divine wisdom. These are the ten principal virtues of the Most Blessed Virgin
Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §108 (excerpt)
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
Read the Brown Scapular devotion and its instructions for blessing and enrollment.
Live the Scapular devotionCalendar 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.