The Church’s prayer today
United States Roman Calendar · Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II. Liturgical color: green.
Scripture for the liturgy
2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14/2 Thes 2:16—3:5/Lk 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38 (156)
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.
Do all your actions for Mary
Finally, one must do all one’s actions for Mary. For, since we have given ourselves wholly to her service, it is just that we do everything for her, as a valet, a servant, and a slave; not that we take her for the last end of our services, which is Jesus Christ alone, but for their proximate end, their mysterious medium, and their easy means of going to him. Like a good servant and slave, we must not remain idle; but, supported by her protection, we must undertake and do great things for this august Sovereign.
Make this prayer your own
We pray to You, Lord Jesus, by the fifteen mysteries of Your life, death, Passion, and glory, and the merits of Your holy Mother, to convert sinners, to aid the dying, to deliver the souls in purgatory, and to give us all Your grace to live well and die well, and Your glory to see You face to face and to love You throughout eternity. Amen.
St. Louis de Montfort · The Secret of the Rosary · First Method, final prayerOne faithful act
Serve Mary for the love of Jesus Christ, whom Montfort names as the final end of these actions.
Offer for the salvation of soulsCalendar 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.