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 January
- FridayJanuary 1Christmas
- SaturdayJanuary 2Christmas
No observance in this view.
- SundayJanuary 3Christmas
- MondayJanuary 4Christmas
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayJanuary 5Christmas
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayJanuary 6Christmas
No observance in this view.
- ThursdayJanuary 7Christmas
No observance in this view.
- FridayJanuary 8Christmas
No observance in this view.
- SaturdayJanuary 9Christmas
No observance in this view.
- SundayJanuary 10Christmas
No observance in this view.
- MondayJanuary 11Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJanuary 12Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJanuary 13Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJanuary 14Ordinary Time
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- FridayJanuary 15Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJanuary 16Ordinary Time
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- SundayJanuary 17Ordinary Time
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- MondayJanuary 18Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJanuary 19Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJanuary 20Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJanuary 21Ordinary Time
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- FridayJanuary 22Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJanuary 23Ordinary Time
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- SundayJanuary 24Ordinary Time
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- MondayJanuary 25Ordinary Time
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- TuesdayJanuary 26Ordinary Time
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- WednesdayJanuary 27Ordinary Time
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- ThursdayJanuary 28Ordinary Time
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- FridayJanuary 29Ordinary Time
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- SaturdayJanuary 30Ordinary Time
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- SundayJanuary 31Ordinary Time
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep January 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.
SolemnityMarian
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
The Church opens the civil year beneath Mary’s divine motherhood: Jesus is truly God and truly her Son, and she is truly Mother of God and Mother given to us in Him.
Receive the Mother Jesus givesSolemnity
The Epiphany of the Lord
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.