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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

May 2026

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

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
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3Easter
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5Easter
6Easter
7Easter
8Easter
9Easter
10Easter
11Easter
12Easter
13Easter
14Easter
15Easter
16Easter
17Easter
18Easter
19Easter
20Easter
21Easter
22Easter
23Easter
24Easter
25Ordinary Time
26Ordinary Time
27Ordinary Time
28Ordinary Time
29Ordinary Time
30Ordinary Time
31Ordinary Time
  1. FridayMay 1
  2. SaturdayMay 2
  3. SundayMay 3
  4. MondayMay 4
  5. TuesdayMay 5
  6. WednesdayMay 6
  7. ThursdayMay 7
  8. FridayMay 8
  9. SaturdayMay 9
  10. SundayMay 10
  11. MondayMay 11
  12. TuesdayMay 12
  13. WednesdayMay 13
  14. ThursdayMay 14
  15. FridayMay 15
  16. SaturdayMay 16
  17. SundayMay 17
  18. MondayMay 18
  19. TuesdayMay 19
  20. WednesdayMay 20
  21. ThursdayMay 21
  22. FridayMay 22
  23. SaturdayMay 23
  24. SundayMay 24
  25. MondayMay 25
  26. TuesdayMay 26
  27. WednesdayMay 27
  28. ThursdayMay 28
  29. FridayMay 29
  30. SaturdayMay 30
  31. SundayMay 31
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  1. FridayMay 1Easter
  2. SaturdayMay 2Easter
  3. SundayMay 3Easter
  4. MondayMay 4Easter
  5. TuesdayMay 5Easter
  6. WednesdayMay 6Easter
  7. ThursdayMay 7Easter
  8. FridayMay 8Easter
  9. SaturdayMay 9Easter
  10. SundayMay 10Easter
  11. MondayMay 11Easter
  12. TuesdayMay 12Easter
  13. WednesdayMay 13Easter
  14. ThursdayMay 14Easter
  15. FridayMay 15Easter
  16. SaturdayMay 16Easter
  17. SundayMay 17Easter
  18. MondayMay 18Easter
  19. TuesdayMay 19Easter
  20. WednesdayMay 20Easter
  21. ThursdayMay 21Easter
  22. FridayMay 22Easter
  23. SaturdayMay 23Easter
  24. SundayMay 24Easter
  25. MondayMay 25Ordinary Time
  26. TuesdayMay 26Ordinary Time
  27. WednesdayMay 27Ordinary Time
  28. ThursdayMay 28Ordinary Time
  29. FridayMay 29Ordinary Time
  30. SaturdayMay 30Ordinary Time
  31. SundayMay 31Ordinary Time
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep May 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

    Easter Weekday

  2. Optional Memorial

    Saint Joseph the Worker

  3. Memorial

    Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  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

    Fifth Sunday of Easter

  6. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  7. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  8. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  9. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  10. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  11. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  12. Sunday

    Sixth Sunday of Easter

  13. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  14. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  15. Optional Memorial

    Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs

  16. Optional Memorial

    Saint Pancras, Martyr

  17. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  18. Optional MemorialMarian

    Our Lady of Fatima

    At Fatima, Our Lady called the world to the Rosary, conversion, sacrifice, consecration, and reparation. Her summons is an answer to the danger of souls being lost.

    Answer the call of Fatima

  19. Feast

    Saint Matthias, Apostle

  20. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  21. Optional Memorial

    Saint Isidore

  22. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  23. Solemnity

    The Ascension of the Lord

    Shown on the Sunday observed in most U.S. dioceses.

  24. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  25. Optional Memorial

    Saint John I, Pope and Martyr

  26. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  27. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  28. Optional MemorialMarian witness

    Saint Bernardine of Siena, Priest

    Hear St. Bernardine of Siena

  29. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  30. Optional Memorial

    Saint Christopher Magallanes, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

  31. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  32. Optional Memorial

    Saint Rita of Cascia, Religious

  33. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  34. Solemnity

    Pentecost Sunday

  35. MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church (Eighth Week in Ordinary Time)

    Mary stood beside the Cross and prayed with the newborn Church at Pentecost. Christ’s Mother is mother of His members and forms them in the life of her Son.

    Take Mary as your mother

  36. Memorial

    Saint Philip Neri, Priest

  37. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time

  38. Optional Memorial

    Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop

  39. Weekday

    Thursday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time

  40. Weekday

    Friday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time

  41. Optional Memorial

    Saint Paul VI, Pope

  42. Weekday

    Saturday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time

  43. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  44. Solemnity

    The Most Holy Trinity

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.