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 May
- MondayMay 1Easter
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- TuesdayMay 2Easter
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- WednesdayMay 3Easter
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- ThursdayMay 4Easter
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- FridayMay 5Easter
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- SaturdayMay 6Easter
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- SundayMay 7Easter
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- MondayMay 8Easter
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- TuesdayMay 9Easter
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- WednesdayMay 10Easter
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- ThursdayMay 11Easter
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- FridayMay 12Easter
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- SaturdayMay 13Easter
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- SundayMay 14Easter
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- MondayMay 15Easter
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- TuesdayMay 16Easter
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- WednesdayMay 17Easter
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- ThursdayMay 18Easter
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- FridayMay 19Easter
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- SaturdayMay 20Easter
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- SundayMay 21Easter
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- MondayMay 22Easter
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- TuesdayMay 23Easter
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- WednesdayMay 24Easter
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- ThursdayMay 25Easter
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- FridayMay 26Easter
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- SaturdayMay 27Easter
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- SundayMay 28Easter
- MondayMay 29Easter
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- TuesdayMay 30Easter
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- WednesdayMay 31Easter
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep May 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.
Solemnity
The Ascension of the Lord
Shown on the Sunday observed in most U.S. dioceses.
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.
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.