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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.

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The Church’s year

· Ordinary Time · calendar reference date

The Holy Guardian Angels

Marian days ahead

  1. First SaturdayDevotional observance
  2. Our Lady of the RosaryMemorial
  3. Saint John Paul II, PopeOptional Memorial
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The liturgical year under her mantle.

Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II · United States Roman Calendar

December 2028

Every day, with the Church’s celebrations and optional memorials

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1Ordinary Time
2Ordinary Time
3Advent
4Advent
5Advent
6Advent
7Advent
8Advent
9Advent
10Advent
11Advent
12Advent
13Advent
14Advent
15Advent
16Advent
17Advent
18Advent
19Advent
20Advent
21Advent
22Advent
23Advent
24Advent
25Christmas
26Christmas
27Christmas
28Christmas
29Christmas
30Christmas
31Christmas
  1. FridayDecember 1
  2. SaturdayDecember 2
  3. SundayDecember 3
  4. MondayDecember 4
  5. TuesdayDecember 5
  6. WednesdayDecember 6
  7. ThursdayDecember 7
  8. FridayDecember 8
  9. SaturdayDecember 9
  10. SundayDecember 10
  11. MondayDecember 11
  12. TuesdayDecember 12
  13. WednesdayDecember 13
  14. ThursdayDecember 14
  15. FridayDecember 15
  16. SaturdayDecember 16
  17. SundayDecember 17
  18. MondayDecember 18
  19. TuesdayDecember 19
  20. WednesdayDecember 20
  21. ThursdayDecember 21
  22. FridayDecember 22
  23. SaturdayDecember 23
  24. SundayDecember 24
  25. MondayDecember 25
  26. TuesdayDecember 26
  27. WednesdayDecember 27
  28. ThursdayDecember 28
  29. FridayDecember 29
  30. SaturdayDecember 30
  31. SundayDecember 31
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  1. FridayDecember 1Ordinary Time
  2. SaturdayDecember 2Ordinary Time
  3. SundayDecember 3Advent
  4. MondayDecember 4Advent
  5. TuesdayDecember 5Advent
  6. WednesdayDecember 6Advent
  7. ThursdayDecember 7Advent
  8. FridayDecember 8Advent
  9. SaturdayDecember 9Advent
  10. SundayDecember 10Advent
  11. MondayDecember 11Advent
  12. TuesdayDecember 12Advent
  13. WednesdayDecember 13Advent
  14. ThursdayDecember 14Advent
  15. FridayDecember 15Advent
  16. SaturdayDecember 16Advent
  17. SundayDecember 17Advent
  18. MondayDecember 18Advent
  19. TuesdayDecember 19Advent
  20. WednesdayDecember 20Advent
  21. ThursdayDecember 21Advent
  22. FridayDecember 22Advent
  23. SaturdayDecember 23Advent
  24. SundayDecember 24Advent
  25. MondayDecember 25Christmas
  26. TuesdayDecember 26Christmas
  27. WednesdayDecember 27Christmas
  28. ThursdayDecember 28Christmas
  29. FridayDecember 29Christmas
  30. SaturdayDecember 30Christmas
  31. SundayDecember 31Christmas
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep December 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.

  1. Weekday

    Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time

  2. Weekday

    Saturday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time

  3. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  4. 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 Saturday

  5. Sunday

    First Sunday of Advent

  6. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  7. Optional MemorialMarian witness

    Saint John Damascene, Priest and Doctor of the Church

    Hear St. John Damascene

  8. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  9. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  10. Optional Memorial

    Saint Nicholas, Bishop

  11. Memorial

    Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  12. SolemnityMarian

    The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Patronal Feastday of the United States of America)

    From the first instant of her conception, Mary was preserved from original sin by the grace of Christ. In the Immaculate one, God prepares a Mother entirely His own.

    Consecrate yourself through Mary

  13. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  14. Optional Memorial

    Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

  15. Sunday

    Second Sunday of Advent

  16. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  17. Optional Memorial

    Saint Damasus I, Pope

  18. FeastMarian

    Our Lady of Guadalupe

    The Mother of the true God came to Tepeyac with maternal tenderness, gathered a people to Christ, and left her image as a sign of her enduring presence and care.

    Entrust the Americas to Mary

  19. Memorial

    Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr

  20. Memorial

    Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  21. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  22. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  23. Sunday

    Third Sunday of Advent

  24. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  25. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  26. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  27. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  28. Commemoration

    Saint Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  29. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  30. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  31. Commemoration

    Saint John of Kanty, Priest

  32. Sunday

    Fourth Sunday of Advent

  33. Solemnity

    The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)

  34. Feast

    Saint Stephen, the First Martyr

  35. Feast

    Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist

  36. Feast

    The Holy Innocents, Martyrs

  37. Weekday

    Fifth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord

  38. Commemoration

    Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr

  39. Weekday

    Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord

  40. FeastMarian

    The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

    Jesus, Mary, and Joseph reveal the home ordered wholly to God. Place every family beneath their protection and learn the hidden obedience of Nazareth.

    Place your home beneath their care

This year’s observance notes

The civil year crosses two liturgical years. Transfers and precedence below follow the official annual U.S. calendar.

  • Saint Joseph is transferred from the Third Sunday of Lent to Monday, March 20.
  • The Ascension is shown on Sunday, May 28, as observed in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, and Philadelphia observe it on Thursday, May 25.
  • The Immaculate Heart is not separately observed because June 24 is the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
Open the official 2028 USCCB calendar

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.

  1. Receive the mystery.Attend the Church’s liturgy and hear the Word with Mary’s faith.
  2. Contemplate with her.Pray the Rosary mystery or Marian prayer that opens the feast more deeply.
  3. Become what you celebrate.Imitate her fiat, purity, charity, sorrow, confidence, and total belonging to Jesus.
Pray with Mary now

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.

  1. 01
    USCCB · Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States

    Official annual dates, ranks, colors, readings, and U.S. proper celebrations.

  2. 02
    St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary, Part II

    Discourses on Mary’s feasts, her seven sorrows, and her virtues.

  3. 03
    St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion §§243–248

    Honoring the Incarnation and the Blessed Virgin in a life of consecration.

  4. 04
    Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church

    The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.