The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
Mal 3:1-4/Heb 2:14-18/Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22-32 (524)
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 Presentation of the Lord
Saint Alphonsus contemplates the offering Mary made in the Temple and its fulfillment at the Cross.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
Let us go then to this divine Mother, if we would find Jesus; and let us go with great confidence.
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
Use the prayer of offering to entrust yourself to Jesus through Mary.
Pray an offering 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.