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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

· Ordinary Time · calendar reference date

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

April 2026

The highest-ranking celebrations and the days of the Sacred Triduum

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1Lent
2Sacred Triduum
3Sacred Triduum
4Sacred Triduum
5Easter
6Easter
7Easter
8Easter
9Easter
10Easter
11Easter
12Easter
13Easter
14Easter
15Easter
16Easter
17Easter
18Easter
19Easter
20Easter
21Easter
22Easter
23Easter
24Easter
25Easter
26Easter
27Easter
28Easter
29Easter
30Easter
  1. ThursdayApril 2
  2. FridayApril 3
  3. SaturdayApril 4
  4. SundayApril 5
View every day in April
  1. WednesdayApril 1Lent

    No observance in this view.

  2. ThursdayApril 2Sacred Triduum
  3. FridayApril 3Sacred Triduum
  4. SaturdayApril 4Sacred Triduum
  5. SundayApril 5Easter
  6. MondayApril 6Easter

    No observance in this view.

  7. TuesdayApril 7Easter

    No observance in this view.

  8. WednesdayApril 8Easter

    No observance in this view.

  9. ThursdayApril 9Easter

    No observance in this view.

  10. FridayApril 10Easter

    No observance in this view.

  11. SaturdayApril 11Easter

    No observance in this view.

  12. SundayApril 12Easter

    No observance in this view.

  13. MondayApril 13Easter

    No observance in this view.

  14. TuesdayApril 14Easter

    No observance in this view.

  15. WednesdayApril 15Easter

    No observance in this view.

  16. ThursdayApril 16Easter

    No observance in this view.

  17. FridayApril 17Easter

    No observance in this view.

  18. SaturdayApril 18Easter

    No observance in this view.

  19. SundayApril 19Easter

    No observance in this view.

  20. MondayApril 20Easter

    No observance in this view.

  21. TuesdayApril 21Easter

    No observance in this view.

  22. WednesdayApril 22Easter

    No observance in this view.

  23. ThursdayApril 23Easter

    No observance in this view.

  24. FridayApril 24Easter

    No observance in this view.

  25. SaturdayApril 25Easter

    No observance in this view.

  26. SundayApril 26Easter

    No observance in this view.

  27. MondayApril 27Easter

    No observance in this view.

  28. TuesdayApril 28Easter

    No observance in this view.

  29. WednesdayApril 29Easter

    No observance in this view.

  30. ThursdayApril 30Easter

    No observance in this view.

Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep April 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. Principal liturgical day

    Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday)

  2. Principal liturgical day

    Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

  3. Principal liturgical day

    Holy Saturday

  4. 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 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.
Open the official 2026 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.

  2. 02
    St. Alphonsus de Liguori · The Glories of Mary, Part II

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

  3. 03
    St. Louis de Montfort · True Devotion §§243–248

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

  4. 04
    Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church

    The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.