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
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View every day in December
- WednesdayDecember 1Advent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayDecember 2Advent
No observance in this view.
- FridayDecember 3Advent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayDecember 4Advent
- SundayDecember 5Advent
No observance in this view.
- MondayDecember 6Advent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayDecember 7Advent
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayDecember 8Advent
- ThursdayDecember 9Advent
No observance in this view.
- FridayDecember 10Advent
- SaturdayDecember 11Advent
No observance in this view.
- SundayDecember 12Advent
No observance in this view.
- MondayDecember 13Advent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayDecember 14Advent
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayDecember 15Advent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayDecember 16Advent
No observance in this view.
- FridayDecember 17Advent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayDecember 18Advent
No observance in this view.
- SundayDecember 19Advent
No observance in this view.
- MondayDecember 20Advent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayDecember 21Advent
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayDecember 22Advent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayDecember 23Advent
No observance in this view.
- FridayDecember 24Advent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayDecember 25Christmas
No observance in this view.
- SundayDecember 26Christmas
- MondayDecember 27Christmas
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayDecember 28Christmas
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayDecember 29Christmas
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayDecember 30Christmas
No observance in this view.
- FridayDecember 31Christmas
No observance in this view.
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.
Optional MemorialMarian witness
Saint John Damascene, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Hear St. John DamasceneDevotional 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 SaturdaySolemnityMarian
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 MaryOptional MemorialMarian
Our Lady of Loreto
Our Lady of Loreto turns the heart toward the Holy House and the mystery of the Word made flesh in Mary’s home at Nazareth.
Contemplate the IncarnationFeastMarian
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.
- 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.