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 September
- WednesdaySeptember 1Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- ThursdaySeptember 2Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridaySeptember 3Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdaySeptember 4Ordinary Time
- SundaySeptember 5Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- MondaySeptember 6Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- TuesdaySeptember 7Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- WednesdaySeptember 8Ordinary Time
- ThursdaySeptember 9Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridaySeptember 10Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdaySeptember 11Ordinary Time
- SundaySeptember 12Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- MondaySeptember 13Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- TuesdaySeptember 14Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- WednesdaySeptember 15Ordinary Time
- ThursdaySeptember 16Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridaySeptember 17Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdaySeptember 18Ordinary Time
- SundaySeptember 19Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- MondaySeptember 20Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- TuesdaySeptember 21Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- WednesdaySeptember 22Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- ThursdaySeptember 23Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- FridaySeptember 24Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- SaturdaySeptember 25Ordinary Time
- SundaySeptember 26Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- MondaySeptember 27Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- TuesdaySeptember 28Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- WednesdaySeptember 29Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
- ThursdaySeptember 30Ordinary Time
No observance in this view.
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep September 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 SaturdayFeastMarian
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The birth of Mary announces the near approach of salvation. God prepares the Immaculate Mother from whom the Sun of Justice will rise.
Give thanks for Mary’s birthOptional MemorialMarian
The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
MemorialMarian
Our Lady of Sorrows
At Calvary Mary stands in perfect union with the sacrifice of her Son. Ask the Sorrowful Mother to teach fidelity, compassion, and the offering of suffering.
Offer suffering with MaryOptional 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.