The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year B → Year C at Advent · Cycle I. Liturgical color: violet.
Scripture for the liturgy
Is 48:17-19/Mt 11:16-19 (185)
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 LoretoOptional Memorial · white
Enter the Marian mystery
Our Lady of Loreto
At Loreto, contemplate the Incarnation and the hidden life of Jesus with Mary, as Saint Louis de Montfort teaches.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
It is, in four words, to do all one’s actions THROUGH MARY, WITH MARY, IN MARY, and FOR MARY, in order to do them more perfectly through Jesus Christ, with Jesus Christ, in Jesus, and for Jesus.
Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §257 (excerpt)
Make this prayer your own
Most holy Virgin, obtain for us the love of prayer and of solitude, so that, detaching ourselves from the love of creatures, we may aspire to God alone and to Paradise, where we hope one day to see you and for ever to praise and love together with you your Son Jesus, world without end. Amen.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · On the Prayer of MaryOne faithful act
Pray the Joyful Mysteries, contemplating the Incarnation and the life of Jesus with Mary and Joseph.
Pray the Joyful MysteriesCalendar 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.