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

December 2026

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

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20Advent
21Advent
22Advent
23Advent
24Advent
25Christmas
26Christmas
27Christmas
28Christmas
29Christmas
30Christmas
31Christmas
  1. TuesdayDecember 1
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  3. ThursdayDecember 3
  4. FridayDecember 4
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  11. FridayDecember 11
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  14. MondayDecember 14
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  25. FridayDecember 25
  26. SaturdayDecember 26
  27. SundayDecember 27
  28. MondayDecember 28
  29. TuesdayDecember 29
  30. WednesdayDecember 30
  31. ThursdayDecember 31
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  1. TuesdayDecember 1Advent
  2. WednesdayDecember 2Advent
  3. ThursdayDecember 3Advent
  4. FridayDecember 4Advent
  5. SaturdayDecember 5Advent
  6. SundayDecember 6Advent
  7. MondayDecember 7Advent
  8. TuesdayDecember 8Advent
  9. WednesdayDecember 9Advent
  10. ThursdayDecember 10Advent
  11. FridayDecember 11Advent
  12. SaturdayDecember 12Advent
  13. SundayDecember 13Advent
  14. MondayDecember 14Advent
  15. TuesdayDecember 15Advent
  16. WednesdayDecember 16Advent
  17. ThursdayDecember 17Advent
  18. FridayDecember 18Advent
  19. SaturdayDecember 19Advent
  20. SundayDecember 20Advent
  21. MondayDecember 21Advent
  22. TuesdayDecember 22Advent
  23. WednesdayDecember 23Advent
  24. ThursdayDecember 24Advent
  25. FridayDecember 25Christmas
  26. SaturdayDecember 26Christmas
  27. SundayDecember 27Christmas
  28. MondayDecember 28Christmas
  29. TuesdayDecember 29Christmas
  30. WednesdayDecember 30Christmas
  31. ThursdayDecember 31Christmas
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep December 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. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  2. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  3. Memorial

    Saint Francis Xavier, Priest

  4. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  5. Optional MemorialMarian witness

    Saint John Damascene, Priest and Doctor of the Church

    Hear St. John Damascene

  6. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  7. 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

  8. Sunday

    Second Sunday of Advent

  9. Memorial

    Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  10. SolemnityMarian

    The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Patronal Feastday of the United States of America)

    From the first instant of her conception, Mary was preserved from original sin by the grace of Christ. In the Immaculate one, God prepares a Mother entirely His own.

    Consecrate yourself through Mary

  11. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  12. Optional Memorial

    Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

  13. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  14. Optional MemorialMarian

    Our Lady of Loreto

    Our Lady of Loreto turns the heart toward the Holy House and the mystery of the Word made flesh in Mary’s home at Nazareth.

    Contemplate the Incarnation

  15. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  16. Optional Memorial

    Saint Damasus I, Pope

  17. FeastMarian

    Our Lady of Guadalupe

    The Mother of the true God came to Tepeyac with maternal tenderness, gathered a people to Christ, and left her image as a sign of her enduring presence and care.

    Entrust the Americas to Mary

  18. Sunday

    Third Sunday of Advent

  19. Memorial

    Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  20. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  21. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  22. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  23. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  24. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  25. Sunday

    Fourth Sunday of Advent

  26. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  27. Commemoration

    Saint Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  28. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  29. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  30. Commemoration

    Saint John of Kanty, Priest

  31. Weekday

    Advent Weekday

  32. Solemnity

    The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)

  33. Feast

    Saint Stephen, the First Martyr

  34. FeastMarian

    The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

    Jesus, Mary, and Joseph reveal the home ordered wholly to God. Place every family beneath their protection and learn the hidden obedience of Nazareth.

    Place your home beneath their care

  35. Feast

    The Holy Innocents, Martyrs

  36. Weekday

    Fifth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord

  37. Commemoration

    Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr

  38. Weekday

    Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord

  39. Weekday

    Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord

  40. Commemoration

    Saint Sylvester I, Pope

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.