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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

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The Holy Guardian Angels

Marian days ahead

  1. First SaturdayDevotional observance
  2. Our Lady of the RosaryMemorial
  3. Saint John Paul II, PopeOptional Memorial
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The liturgical year under her mantle.

Year C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II · United States Roman Calendar

August 2028

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

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Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
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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.

  1. 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 Mary

  2. Optional 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 God

  3. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  4. 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

  5. MemorialMarian 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 Rosary

  6. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  7. MemorialMarian 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 Immaculata

  8. SolemnityMarian

    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 Mysteries

  9. Optional 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 Hearts

  10. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  11. MemorialMarian

    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

  12. 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.

  • Saint Joseph is transferred from the Third Sunday of Lent to Monday, March 20.
  • The Ascension is shown on Sunday, May 28, as observed in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, and Philadelphia observe it on Thursday, May 25.
  • The Immaculate Heart is not separately observed because June 24 is the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
Open the official 2028 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.

  1. Receive the mystery.Attend the Church’s liturgy and hear the Word with Mary’s faith.
  2. Contemplate with her.Pray the Rosary mystery or Marian prayer that opens the feast more deeply.
  3. 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.

  1. 01
    USCCB · Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States

    Official annual dates, ranks, colors, readings, and U.S. proper celebrations.

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    St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary, Part II

    Discourses on Mary’s feasts, her seven sorrows, and her virtues.

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    St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion §§243–248

    Honoring the Incarnation and the Blessed Virgin in a life of consecration.

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    Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church

    The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.