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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

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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

September 2026

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

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  1. TuesdaySeptember 1Ordinary Time
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep September 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

    Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time

  2. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time

  3. Memorial

    Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

  4. Weekday

    Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time

  5. Weekday

    Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time

  6. Optional Memorial

    Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Virgin

  7. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  8. 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

  9. Sunday

    Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

  10. Weekday

    Monday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time

  11. FeastMarian

    The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The birth of Mary announces the near approach of salvation. God prepares the Immaculate Mother from whom the Sun of Justice will rise.

    Give thanks for Mary’s birth

  12. Memorial

    Saint Peter Claver, Priest

  13. Weekday

    Thursday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time

  14. Weekday

    Friday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time

  15. Weekday

    Saturday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time

  16. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Most Holy Name of Mary

    The Church honors the holy name of Mary, a name of maternal confidence and a refuge that turns the heart toward Jesus.

    Call upon Mary with confidence

  17. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  18. Sunday

    Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  19. Feast

    The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

  20. MemorialMarian

    Our Lady of Sorrows

    At Calvary Mary stands in perfect union with the sacrifice of her Son. Ask the Sorrowful Mother to teach fidelity, compassion, and the offering of suffering.

    Offer suffering with Mary

  21. Memorial

    Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

  22. Weekday

    Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

  23. Optional Memorial

    Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  24. Optional Memorial

    Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

  25. Weekday

    Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

  26. Weekday

    Saturday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time

  27. Optional Memorial

    Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr

  28. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  29. Sunday

    Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  30. Feast

    Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

  31. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

  32. Memorial

    Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest

  33. Weekday

    Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

  34. Weekday

    Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

  35. Weekday

    Saturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

  36. Optional Memorial

    Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

  37. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  38. Sunday

    Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  39. Weekday

    Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time

  40. Optional Memorial

    Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr

  41. Optional Memorial

    Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

  42. Feast

    Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels

  43. Memorial

    Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

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.

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    Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church

    The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.