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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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep August 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.
MemorialMarian witness
Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
The Doctor of Marian confidence gathered the Church’s witness so that sinners would flee to the Mother of Mercy and return to Jesus without despair.
Read The Glories of MaryDevotional 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 Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The dedication of Saint Mary Major honors the ancient Roman basilica raised to the Mother of God and the Church’s enduring confession of her divine maternity.
Honor the Mother of GodMemorialMarian witness
Saint Dominic, Priest
Dominican tradition remembers the holy preacher wielding Mary’s Psalter against error and vice, joining contemplation of Christ to apostolic zeal.
Take up the RosaryMemorialMarian witness
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
Kolbe gave himself without limit to the Immaculata so that she might use him to bring every soul to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Give yourself to the ImmaculataSolemnityMarian
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary is taken body and soul into heavenly glory. Her Assumption is the victory of her Son already fulfilled in the Mother and the sure hope of His faithful people.
Pray the Glorious MysteriesOptional MemorialMarian witness
Saint John Eudes, Priest
The apostle of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary taught that Mary’s Heart lives entirely from Christ and draws souls into His love.
Enter the school of the two HeartsMemorialMarian witness
Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
Bernard taught Christians in danger and uncertainty to look to the Star, call upon Mary, and follow her example without losing the way to Christ.
Hear St. Bernard of ClairvauxMemorialMarian
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Mother of the King shares uniquely in His victory and intercedes as Queen. Entrust yourself to her rule so that every part of life may belong more perfectly to Jesus.
Renew your 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.
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.