Keep the year with the Church. Find Mary within it.
Follow the Church’s year, pray the established Marian devotions, and read St. Louis de Montfort and St. Alphonsus on the mysteries of Jesus and His Mother.
Open the calendarMarian days ahead
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- FridayJanuary 1
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep January with the Church.
Begin with the sacred liturgy. On Mary’s days, let the feast continue in the Rosary, consecration, reparation, and imitation of her virtues.
SolemnityMarian
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
The Church opens the civil year beneath Mary’s divine motherhood: Jesus is truly God and truly her Son, and she is truly Mother of God and Mother given to us in Him.
Receive the Mother Jesus givesMemorial
Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church
Devotional observanceMarian
First Saturday
Our Lady asked at Fatima for Confession, Holy Communion, five decades of the Rosary, and fifteen minutes of meditation on its mysteries, all offered in reparation to her Immaculate Heart.
Devotional observance, shown separately from liturgical rank.
Keep the First SaturdaySolemnity
The Epiphany of the Lord
Memorial
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious
Memorial
Saint John Neumann, Bishop
Weekday
Christmas Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint André Bessette, Religious
Weekday
Christmas Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest
Weekday
Christmas Weekday
Weekday
Christmas Weekday
Feast
The Baptism of the Lord
Weekday
Monday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Tuesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Wednesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Weekday
Thursday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Friday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Saturday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Monday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Tuesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Wednesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Fabian, Pope and Martyr
Optional Memorial
Saint Sebastian, Martyr
Memorial
Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
Liturgical observance
Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Weekday
Saturday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr
Optional Memorial
Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Feast
The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
Memorial
Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops
Weekday
Wednesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Angela Merici, Virgin
Weekday
Friday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This year’s observance notes
The civil year crosses two liturgical years. Transfers and precedence below follow the official annual U.S. calendar.
- The Annunciation is transferred from Holy Week to Monday, April 5.
- The Ascension is shown on Sunday, May 9, as observed in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, and Philadelphia observe it on Thursday, May 6.
- Our Lady of Guadalupe is omitted because December 12 is the Third Sunday of Advent; the USCCB permits suitable Marian honor within the Sunday celebration.
Keep the Church’s calendar. Open a date for the principal observance, reading references, and permitted choices in the United States Roman Calendar.
Read with the saints. The daily readings draw from Montfort’s True Devotion and The Secret of the Rosary, and St. Alphonsus’s The Glories of Mary. Each passage links to its place in the complete book.
Honor Mary in the mysteries her saints contemplate.
St. Alphonsus gives discourses for Mary’s feasts, meditations on her sorrows, and prayers that lead the reader to her. Montfort directs those consecrated to Jesus through Mary to honor the Incarnation especially on March 25. Read their words, make their prayers your own, and keep the feasts with the Church.
- Receive the mystery.Attend the Church’s liturgy and hear the Word with Mary’s faith.
- Contemplate with her.Pray the Rosary mystery or Marian prayer that opens the feast more deeply.
- Become what you celebrate.Imitate her fiat, purity, charity, sorrow, confidence, and total belonging to Jesus.
The calendar follows the Church’s own order.
Dates and ranks follow the annual calendar for the Dioceses of the United States. The interactive view includes every day of 2026–2028: its principal observance, optional memorials, and a page with reading references, Marian prayer, and a faithful response. Local proper calendars may differ; the annual USCCB editions remain linked for verification.
- 01USCCB · Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States
Official annual dates, ranks, colors, readings, and U.S. proper celebrations.
- 02St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary, Part II
Discourses on Mary’s feasts, her seven sorrows, and her virtues.
- 03St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion §§243–248
Honoring the Incarnation and the Blessed Virgin in a life of consecration.
- 04Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church
The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.