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 March
- SundayMarch 1Lent
No observance in this view.
- MondayMarch 2Lent
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- TuesdayMarch 3Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 4Lent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayMarch 5Lent
No observance in this view.
- FridayMarch 6Lent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMarch 7Lent
- SundayMarch 8Lent
No observance in this view.
- MondayMarch 9Lent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMarch 10Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 11Lent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayMarch 12Lent
No observance in this view.
- FridayMarch 13Lent
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- SaturdayMarch 14Lent
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- SundayMarch 15Lent
No observance in this view.
- MondayMarch 16Lent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMarch 17Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 18Lent
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayMarch 19Lent
- FridayMarch 20Lent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMarch 21Lent
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- SundayMarch 22Lent
No observance in this view.
- MondayMarch 23Lent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMarch 24Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 25Lent
- ThursdayMarch 26Lent
No observance in this view.
- FridayMarch 27Lent
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMarch 28Lent
No observance in this view.
- SundayMarch 29Lent
No observance in this view.
- MondayMarch 30Lent
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMarch 31Lent
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep March 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.
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 SaturdaySolemnityMarian
The Annunciation of the Lord
At Mary’s fiat the eternal Word takes flesh. The whole Christian life learns its answer here: receive God’s will with her, so that Jesus may live and reign in you.
Contemplate Mary’s fiat
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.
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.