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 May
- FridayMay 1Easter
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMay 2Easter
- SundayMay 3Easter
No observance in this view.
- MondayMay 4Easter
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMay 5Easter
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayMay 6Easter
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayMay 7Easter
No observance in this view.
- FridayMay 8Easter
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMay 9Easter
No observance in this view.
- SundayMay 10Easter
No observance in this view.
- MondayMay 11Easter
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMay 12Easter
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayMay 13Easter
- ThursdayMay 14Easter
No observance in this view.
- FridayMay 15Easter
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMay 16Easter
No observance in this view.
- SundayMay 17Easter
No observance in this view.
- MondayMay 18Easter
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMay 19Easter
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayMay 20Easter
- ThursdayMay 21Easter
No observance in this view.
- FridayMay 22Easter
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMay 23Easter
No observance in this view.
- SundayMay 24Easter
No observance in this view.
- MondayMay 25Ordinary Time
- TuesdayMay 26Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayMay 27Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayMay 28Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridayMay 29Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayMay 30Ordinary Time
- SundayMay 31Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
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.
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 SaturdayOptional 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 FatimaMemorialMarian
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 motherOptional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
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.