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 July
- WednesdayJuly 1Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayJuly 2Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridayJuly 3Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayJuly 4Ordinary Time
- SundayJuly 5Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 6Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 7Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 8Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 9Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 10Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJuly 11Ordinary Time
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- SundayJuly 12Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 13Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 14Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 15Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 17Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJuly 18Ordinary Time
- SundayJuly 19Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 20Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 21Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 22Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 23Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 24Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJuly 25Ordinary Time
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- SundayJuly 26Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 27Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayJuly 28Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 29Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 30Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 31Ordinary Time
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep July 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
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
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 SaturdayMemorialMarian witness
Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
The Seraphic Doctor contemplated Mary within the mystery of Christ and praised the humble Virgin through whom the Savior came to us.
Hear St. BonaventureOptional MemorialMarian
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Church honors Mary’s maternal protection and the Carmelite school of prayer. Wear her Scapular as a sign of belonging and live what it signifies.
Live beneath her mantleOptional 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.