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

April 2028

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

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

    No observance in this view.

  2. SundayApril 2Lent

    No observance in this view.

  3. MondayApril 3Lent

    No observance in this view.

  4. TuesdayApril 4Lent

    No observance in this view.

  5. WednesdayApril 5Lent

    No observance in this view.

  6. ThursdayApril 6Lent

    No observance in this view.

  7. FridayApril 7Lent

    No observance in this view.

  8. SaturdayApril 8Lent

    No observance in this view.

  9. SundayApril 9Lent

    No observance in this view.

  10. MondayApril 10Lent

    No observance in this view.

  11. TuesdayApril 11Lent

    No observance in this view.

  12. WednesdayApril 12Lent

    No observance in this view.

  13. ThursdayApril 13Sacred Triduum
  14. FridayApril 14Sacred Triduum
  15. SaturdayApril 15Sacred Triduum
  16. SundayApril 16Easter

    No observance in this view.

  17. MondayApril 17Easter

    No observance in this view.

  18. TuesdayApril 18Easter

    No observance in this view.

  19. WednesdayApril 19Easter

    No observance in this view.

  20. ThursdayApril 20Easter

    No observance in this view.

  21. FridayApril 21Easter

    No observance in this view.

  22. SaturdayApril 22Easter

    No observance in this view.

  23. SundayApril 23Easter

    No observance in this view.

  24. MondayApril 24Easter

    No observance in this view.

  25. TuesdayApril 25Easter

    No observance in this view.

  26. WednesdayApril 26Easter

    No observance in this view.

  27. ThursdayApril 27Easter

    No observance in this view.

  28. FridayApril 28Easter

    No observance in this view.

  29. SaturdayApril 29Easter

    No observance in this view.

  30. SundayApril 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

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.

  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.