The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: green.
Scripture for the liturgy
1 Cor 6:1-11/Lk 6:12-19 (438)
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
- The Most Holy Name of MaryOptional Memorial · white
Enter the Marian mystery
The Most Holy Name of Mary
Saint Alphonsus teaches confidence in the holy name of Mary, invoked with love in life and at death.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
If then, my Brothers, Thomas à Kempis concludes, you seek to be consoled in every trouble, have recourse to Mary, invoke Mary, honour Mary, commend yourselves to Mary. With Mary rejoice, with Mary weep, with Mary pray, with Mary walk, with Mary seek Jesus; with Jesus and Mary at last desire to live and to die.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary, Part I, Chapter X, quoting Thomas à Kempis (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 Hail Mary with attention and confidence in her intercession.
Invoke the holy name of 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.