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

April 2026

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

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1Lent
2Sacred Triduum
3Sacred Triduum
4Sacred Triduum
5Easter
6Easter
7Easter
8Easter
9Easter
10Easter
11Easter
12Easter
13Easter
14Easter
15Easter
16Easter
17Easter
18Easter
19Easter
20Easter
21Easter
22Easter
23Easter
24Easter
25Easter
26Easter
27Easter
28Easter
29Easter
30Easter
  1. WednesdayApril 1
  2. ThursdayApril 2
  3. FridayApril 3
  4. SaturdayApril 4
  5. SundayApril 5
  6. MondayApril 6
  7. TuesdayApril 7
  8. WednesdayApril 8
  9. ThursdayApril 9
  10. FridayApril 10
  11. SaturdayApril 11
  12. SundayApril 12
  13. MondayApril 13
  14. TuesdayApril 14
  15. WednesdayApril 15
  16. ThursdayApril 16
  17. FridayApril 17
  18. SaturdayApril 18
  19. SundayApril 19
  20. MondayApril 20
  21. TuesdayApril 21
  22. WednesdayApril 22
  23. ThursdayApril 23
  24. FridayApril 24
  25. SaturdayApril 25
  26. SundayApril 26
  27. MondayApril 27
  28. TuesdayApril 28
  29. WednesdayApril 29
  30. ThursdayApril 30
View every day in April
  1. WednesdayApril 1Lent
  2. ThursdayApril 2Sacred Triduum
  3. FridayApril 3Sacred Triduum
  4. SaturdayApril 4Sacred Triduum
  5. SundayApril 5Easter
  6. MondayApril 6Easter
  7. TuesdayApril 7Easter
  8. WednesdayApril 8Easter
  9. ThursdayApril 9Easter
  10. FridayApril 10Easter
  11. SaturdayApril 11Easter
  12. SundayApril 12Easter
  13. MondayApril 13Easter
  14. TuesdayApril 14Easter
  15. WednesdayApril 15Easter
  16. ThursdayApril 16Easter
  17. FridayApril 17Easter
  18. SaturdayApril 18Easter
  19. SundayApril 19Easter
  20. MondayApril 20Easter
  21. TuesdayApril 21Easter
  22. WednesdayApril 22Easter
  23. ThursdayApril 23Easter
  24. FridayApril 24Easter
  25. SaturdayApril 25Easter
  26. SundayApril 26Easter
  27. MondayApril 27Easter
  28. TuesdayApril 28Easter
  29. WednesdayApril 29Easter
  30. ThursdayApril 30Easter
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep April 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

    Wednesday of Holy Week

  2. Principal liturgical day

    Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday)

  3. Principal liturgical day

    Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

  4. Principal liturgical day

    Holy Saturday

  5. 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

  6. Solemnity

    Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

  7. Day within the Easter Octave

    Monday within the Octave of Easter

  8. Day within the Easter Octave

    Tuesday within the Octave of Easter

  9. Day within the Easter Octave

    Wednesday within the Octave of Easter

  10. Day within the Easter Octave

    Thursday within the Octave of Easter

  11. Day within the Easter Octave

    Friday within the Octave of Easter

  12. Day within the Easter Octave

    Saturday within the Octave of Easter

  13. Sunday

    Second Sunday of Easter (Or Sunday of Divine Mercy)

  14. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  15. Optional Memorial

    Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr

  16. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  17. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  18. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  19. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  20. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  21. Sunday

    Third Sunday of Easter

  22. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  23. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  24. Optional Memorial

    Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  25. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  26. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  27. Optional Memorial

    Saint George, Martyr

  28. Optional Memorial

    Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr

  29. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  30. Optional Memorial

    Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

  31. Feast

    Saint Mark, Evangelist

  32. Sunday

    Fourth Sunday of Easter

  33. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  34. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  35. Optional Memorial

    Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr

  36. Optional MemorialMarian witness

    Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest

    The apostle of total consecration taught souls to belong entirely to Jesus through Mary and to let her form them in the likeness of her Son.

    Learn from the apostle of consecration

  37. Memorial

    Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

  38. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  39. Optional Memorial

    Saint Pius V, Pope

This year’s observance notes

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

  • The Ascension is shown on Sunday, May 17, as observed in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, and Philadelphia observe it on Thursday, May 14.
  • The Visitation yields to the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity on May 31.
  • The Immaculate Heart is an Optional Memorial on June 13 because it coincides with Saint Anthony of Padua.
Open the official 2026 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.