The Marian WayPray now

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

October 2026

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

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  1. ThursdayOctober 1Ordinary Time
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep October 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. Memorial

    Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

  2. Memorial

    The Holy Guardian Angels

  3. Weekday

    Saturday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time

  4. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  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. Sunday

    Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

  7. Weekday

    Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

  8. Optional Memorial

    Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin

  9. Optional Memorial

    Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest

  10. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

  11. Optional Memorial

    Saint Bruno, Priest

  12. Optional Memorial

    Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin

  13. MemorialMarian

    Our Lady of the Rosary

    The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary summons the Church to contemplate Christ with Mary. Take up the beads and let the mysteries reform the mind and life.

    Pray the Rosary now

  14. Weekday

    Thursday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

  15. Weekday

    Friday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

  16. Optional Memorial

    Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs

  17. Optional Memorial

    Saint John Leonardi, Priest

  18. Optional Memorial

    Saint John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  19. Weekday

    Saturday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time

  20. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  21. Sunday

    Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  22. Weekday

    Monday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time

  23. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time

  24. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time

  25. Optional Memorial

    Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr

  26. Memorial

    Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

  27. Weekday

    Friday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time

  28. Optional Memorial

    Saint Hedwig, Religious

  29. Optional MemorialMarian

    Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

  30. Memorial

    Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

  31. Sunday

    Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  32. Memorial

    Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs

  33. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time

  34. Optional Memorial

    Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest

  35. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time

  36. Weekday

    Thursday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time

  37. Optional MemorialMarian witness

    Saint John Paul II, Pope

    His Totus Tuus entrusted his whole life to Mary so that she might lead him and the Church more deeply into the mystery of Christ.

    Learn the meaning of Totus Tuus

  38. Weekday

    Friday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time

  39. Optional Memorial

    Saint John of Capistrano, Priest

  40. Weekday

    Saturday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time

  41. Optional MemorialMarian

    Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop

  42. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  43. Sunday

    Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  44. Weekday

    Monday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

  45. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

  46. Feast

    Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

  47. Weekday

    Thursday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

  48. Weekday

    Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

  49. Weekday

    Saturday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

  50. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

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.

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    Decree · Mary, Mother of the Church

    The obligatory memorial established for the Monday after Pentecost.