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
- ThursdayJuly 1Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridayJuly 2Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJuly 3Ordinary Time
- SundayJuly 4Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 5Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 6Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 7Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 8Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 9Ordinary Time
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- SundayJuly 11Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 12Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 13Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 14Ordinary Time
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- SundayJuly 18Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 19Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 20Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 21Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 22Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 23Ordinary Time
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- SundayJuly 25Ordinary Time
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- MondayJuly 26Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJuly 27Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJuly 28Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJuly 29Ordinary Time
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- FridayJuly 30Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJuly 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.
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
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
MemorialMarian 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
Optional 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 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.