The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Nm 6:22-27/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21 (18)
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
Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Saint Louis de Montfort contemplates the Son of God becoming man in Mary and through Mary.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
All our perfection consisting in being conformed, united, and consecrated to Jesus Christ, the most perfect of all devotions is without question the one which conforms, unites, and consecrates us most perfectly to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the most conformed to Jesus Christ of all creatures, it follows that, of all devotions, the one which most consecrates and conforms a soul to Our Lord is devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin, his holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it will be to Jesus Christ.
Saint Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, §120 (excerpt)
Make this prayer your own
Permit me, then, to say to you: my mother, my most amiable mother. So I call you, and so I will always call you. You, after God, are to be always my hope, my refuge, and my love in this valley of tears.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · Mary Our Mother, prayer (excerpt)One faithful act
Pray the act of consecration to Jesus Christ through Mary.
Renew your offering to Jesus through 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.