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

October 2, 2026 · Ordinary Time · calendar reference date

The Holy Guardian Angels

Marian days ahead

October 3, 2026First SaturdayDevotional observance
October 7, 2026Our Lady of the RosaryMemorial
October 22, 2026Saint 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

Celebrations of Our Lady, First Saturdays, and the Marian saints featured here

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1Lent	2Sacred Triduum	3Sacred Triduum	4Sacred Triduum First SaturdayDevotional observance
5Easter	6Easter	7Easter	8Easter	9Easter	10Easter	11Easter
12Easter	13Easter	14Easter	15Easter	16Easter	17Easter	18Easter
19Easter	20Easter	21Easter	22Easter	23Easter	24Easter	25Easter
26Easter	27Easter	28Easter Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest	29Easter	30Easter

View every day in April

WednesdayApril 1Lent
No observance in this view.
ThursdayApril 2Sacred Triduum
No observance in this view.
FridayApril 3Sacred Triduum
No observance in this view.
SaturdayApril 4Sacred Triduum
First SaturdayDevotional observance
SundayApril 5Easter
No observance in this view.
MondayApril 6Easter
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TuesdayApril 7Easter
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WednesdayApril 8Easter
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ThursdayApril 9Easter
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FridayApril 10Easter
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SaturdayApril 11Easter
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SundayApril 12Easter
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MondayApril 13Easter
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TuesdayApril 14Easter
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WednesdayApril 15Easter
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ThursdayApril 16Easter
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FridayApril 17Easter
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SaturdayApril 18Easter
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SundayApril 19Easter
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MondayApril 20Easter
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TuesdayApril 21Easter
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WednesdayApril 22Easter
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ThursdayApril 23Easter
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FridayApril 24Easter
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SaturdayApril 25Easter
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SundayApril 26Easter
No observance in this view.
MondayApril 27Easter
No observance in this view.
TuesdayApril 28Easter
Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, PriestOptional Memorial
WednesdayApril 29Easter
No observance in this view.
ThursdayApril 30Easter
No observance in this view.

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.

April 4, 2026
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
April 28, 2026
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

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.

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.

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.

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USCCB · Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States
Official annual dates, ranks, colors, readings, and U.S. proper celebrations.
02
St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary, Part II
Discourses on Mary’s feasts, her seven sorrows, and her virtues.
03
St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion §§243–248
Honoring the Incarnation and the Blessed Virgin in a life of consecration.
04
Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church
The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.