The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: white.
Scripture for the liturgy
1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27 (441)/Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 (639)
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
Our Lady of Sorrows
Saint Alphonsus invites us to remember and compassionate the sorrows of the Mother who stood beside the Cross.
Read the teaching, meditation, and prayer →Contemplate with Mary
So great a love of Mary deserves gratitude from us, and let our gratitude at least be to meditate on and compassionate her Sorrows.
Make this prayer your own
AH my blessed Mother, not one sword only then, but as many swords as have been my sins have I added to your Heart. Ah Lady, no — not to you, who are innocent, but to me, guilty of so many crimes, are the punishments due. But since you have willed to suffer so much for me, ah, by your merits obtain for me a great sorrow for my sins, and patience in bearing the troubles of this life, which will always be light compared with what I deserve, since so many times I have deserved Hell. Amen.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary · The First Sorrow, prayerOne faithful act
Pray the traditional Seven Sorrows devotion, meditating on Mary’s sorrows and the Passion of Jesus.
Pray the Seven SorrowsCalendar 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.