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
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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- FridayOctober 1
- SaturdayOctober 2
- SundayOctober 3
- MondayOctober 4
- TuesdayOctober 5
- WednesdayOctober 6
- ThursdayOctober 7
- FridayOctober 8
- SaturdayOctober 9
- SundayOctober 10
- MondayOctober 11
- TuesdayOctober 12
- WednesdayOctober 13
- ThursdayOctober 14
- FridayOctober 15
- SaturdayOctober 16
- SundayOctober 17
- MondayOctober 18
- TuesdayOctober 19
- WednesdayOctober 20
- ThursdayOctober 21
- FridayOctober 22
- SaturdayOctober 23
- SundayOctober 24
- MondayOctober 25
- TuesdayOctober 26
- WednesdayOctober 27
- ThursdayOctober 28
- FridayOctober 29
- SaturdayOctober 30
- SundayOctober 31
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep October 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.
Memorial
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Memorial
The Holy Guardian Angels
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 SaturdaySunday
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Memorial
Saint Francis of Assisi
Weekday
Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin
Optional Memorial
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest
Weekday
Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Bruno, Priest
Optional Memorial
Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin
MemorialMarian
Our Lady of the Rosary
The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary summons the Church to contemplate Christ with Mary. Take up the beads and let the mysteries reform the mind and life.
Pray the Rosary nowWeekday
Friday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Saturday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs
Optional Memorial
Saint John Leonardi, Priest
Optional Memorial
Saint John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Monday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint John XXIII, Pope
Weekday
Tuesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Wednesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Thursday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr
Memorial
Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Weekday
Saturday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Hedwig, Religious
Optional MemorialMarian
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Feast
Saint Luke, Evangelist
Memorial
Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs
Weekday
Wednesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest
Weekday
Thursday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Friday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional MemorialMarian witness
Saint John Paul II, Pope
His Totus Tuus entrusted his whole life to Mary so that she might lead him and the Church more deeply into the mystery of Christ.
Learn the meaning of Totus TuusWeekday
Saturday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial
Saint John of Capistrano, Priest
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Monday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Wednesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Feast
Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
Weekday
Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Weekday
Saturday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Optional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
Sunday
Thirty-First 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.