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
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- ThursdayApril 1
- FridayApril 2
- SaturdayApril 3
- SundayApril 4
- MondayApril 5
- TuesdayApril 6
- WednesdayApril 7
- ThursdayApril 8
- FridayApril 9
- SaturdayApril 10
- SundayApril 11
- MondayApril 12
- TuesdayApril 13
- WednesdayApril 14
- ThursdayApril 15
- FridayApril 16
- SaturdayApril 17
- SundayApril 18
- MondayApril 19
- TuesdayApril 20
- WednesdayApril 21
- ThursdayApril 22
- FridayApril 23
- SaturdayApril 24
- SundayApril 25
- MondayApril 26
- TuesdayApril 27
- WednesdayApril 28
- ThursdayApril 29
- FridayApril 30
View every day in April
- ThursdayApril 1Easter
- FridayApril 2Easter
- SaturdayApril 3Easter
- SundayApril 4Easter
- MondayApril 5Easter
- TuesdayApril 6Easter
- WednesdayApril 7Easter
- ThursdayApril 8Easter
- FridayApril 9Easter
- SaturdayApril 10Easter
- SundayApril 11Easter
- MondayApril 12Easter
- TuesdayApril 13Easter
- WednesdayApril 14Easter
- ThursdayApril 15Easter
- FridayApril 16Easter
- SaturdayApril 17Easter
- SundayApril 18Easter
- MondayApril 19Easter
- TuesdayApril 20Easter
- WednesdayApril 21Easter
- ThursdayApril 22Easter
- FridayApril 23Easter
- SaturdayApril 24Easter
- SundayApril 25Easter
- MondayApril 26Easter
- TuesdayApril 27Easter
- WednesdayApril 28Easter
- ThursdayApril 29Easter
- FridayApril 30Easter
Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses
Keep April 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.
Day within the Easter Octave
Thursday within the Octave of Easter
Day within the Easter Octave
Friday in the Octave of Easter
Day within the Easter Octave
Saturday in the Octave of Easter
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 SaturdaySunday
Second Sunday of Easter (Or Sunday of Divine Mercy)
SolemnityMarian
The Annunciation of the Lord
At Mary’s fiat the eternal Word takes flesh. The whole Christian life learns its answer here: receive God’s will with her, so that Jesus may live and reign in you.
Contemplate Mary’s fiatWeekday
Easter Weekday
Memorial
Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Priest
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Sunday
Third Sunday of Easter
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Sunday
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint George, Martyr
Optional Memorial
Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr
Sunday
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr
Optional MemorialMarian witness
Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest
The apostle of total consecration taught souls to belong entirely to Jesus through Mary and to let her form them in the likeness of her Son.
Learn from the apostle of consecrationMemorial
Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Weekday
Easter Weekday
Optional Memorial
Saint Pius V, 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 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.