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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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep August 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
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary is taken body and soul into heavenly glory. Her Assumption is the victory of her Son already fulfilled in the Mother and the sure hope of His faithful people.
Pray the Glorious Mysteries
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.