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 March
- MondayMarch 1Lent
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- TuesdayMarch 2Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 3Lent
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- ThursdayMarch 4Lent
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- FridayMarch 5Lent
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- SaturdayMarch 6Lent
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- SundayMarch 7Lent
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- MondayMarch 8Lent
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- TuesdayMarch 9Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 10Lent
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- ThursdayMarch 11Lent
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- FridayMarch 12Lent
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- SaturdayMarch 13Lent
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- SundayMarch 14Lent
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- MondayMarch 15Lent
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- TuesdayMarch 16Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 17Lent
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- ThursdayMarch 18Lent
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- FridayMarch 19Lent
- SaturdayMarch 20Lent
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- SundayMarch 21Lent
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- MondayMarch 22Lent
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- TuesdayMarch 23Lent
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- WednesdayMarch 24Lent
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- ThursdayMarch 25Sacred Triduum
- FridayMarch 26Sacred Triduum
- SaturdayMarch 27Sacred Triduum
- SundayMarch 28Easter
- MondayMarch 29Easter
No observance in this view.
- TuesdayMarch 30Easter
No observance in this view.
- WednesdayMarch 31Easter
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep March 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.
Principal liturgical day
Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday)
Principal liturgical day
Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)
Principal liturgical day
Holy Saturday
Solemnity
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection 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.