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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.

Open the calendar

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

January 2026

Every day, with the Church’s celebrations and optional memorials

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  26. MondayJanuary 26
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  28. WednesdayJanuary 28
  29. ThursdayJanuary 29
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  31. SaturdayJanuary 31
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  1. ThursdayJanuary 1Christmas
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  3. SaturdayJanuary 3Christmas
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  5. MondayJanuary 5Christmas
  6. TuesdayJanuary 6Christmas
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  11. SundayJanuary 11Christmas
  12. MondayJanuary 12Ordinary Time
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  17. SaturdayJanuary 17Ordinary Time
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  27. TuesdayJanuary 27Ordinary Time
  28. WednesdayJanuary 28Ordinary Time
  29. ThursdayJanuary 29Ordinary Time
  30. FridayJanuary 30Ordinary Time
  31. SaturdayJanuary 31Ordinary Time
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep January 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. SolemnityMarian

    Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord

    The Church opens the civil year beneath Mary’s divine motherhood: Jesus is truly God and truly her Son, and she is truly Mother of God and Mother given to us in Him.

    Receive the Mother Jesus gives

  2. Memorial

    Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church

  3. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  4. Optional Memorial

    The Most Holy Name of Jesus

  5. Devotional observanceMarian

    First Saturday

    Our Lady asked at Fatima for Confession, Holy Communion, five decades of the Rosary, and fifteen minutes of meditation on its mysteries, all offered in reparation to her Immaculate Heart.

    Devotional observance, shown separately from liturgical rank.

    Keep the First Saturday

  6. Solemnity

    The Epiphany of the Lord

  7. Memorial

    Saint John Neumann, Bishop

  8. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  9. Optional Memorial

    Saint André Bessette, Religious

  10. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  11. Optional Memorial

    Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest

  12. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  13. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  14. Weekday

    Christmas Weekday

  15. Feast

    The Baptism of the Lord

  16. Weekday

    Monday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time

  17. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time

  18. Optional Memorial

    Saint Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  19. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time

  20. Weekday

    Thursday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time

  21. Weekday

    Friday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time

  22. Memorial

    Saint Anthony, Abbot

  23. Sunday

    Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

  24. Weekday

    Monday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time

  25. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time

  26. Optional Memorial

    Saint Fabian, Pope and Martyr

  27. Optional Memorial

    Saint Sebastian, Martyr

  28. Memorial

    Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr

  29. Liturgical observance

    Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

  30. Weekday

    Friday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time

  31. Optional Memorial

    Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr

  32. Optional Memorial

    Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin

  33. MemorialMarian witness

    Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

    Hear St. Francis de Sales

  34. Sunday

    Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

  35. Memorial

    Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops

  36. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time

  37. Optional Memorial

    Saint Angela Merici, Virgin

  38. MemorialMarian witness

    Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church

    Hear St. Thomas Aquinas

  39. Weekday

    Thursday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time

  40. Weekday

    Friday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time

  41. Memorial

    Saint John Bosco, Priest

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.