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.

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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 C → Year A at Advent · Cycle II · United States Roman Calendar

April 2028

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

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1Lent
2Lent
3Lent
4Lent
5Lent
6Lent
7Lent
8Lent
9Lent
10Lent
11Lent
12Lent
13Sacred Triduum
14Sacred Triduum
15Sacred Triduum
16Easter
17Easter
18Easter
19Easter
20Easter
21Easter
22Easter
23Easter
24Easter
25Easter
26Easter
27Easter
28Easter
29Easter
30Easter
  1. SaturdayApril 1
  2. SundayApril 2
  3. MondayApril 3
  4. TuesdayApril 4
  5. WednesdayApril 5
  6. ThursdayApril 6
  7. FridayApril 7
  8. SaturdayApril 8
  9. SundayApril 9
  10. MondayApril 10
  11. TuesdayApril 11
  12. WednesdayApril 12
  13. ThursdayApril 13
  14. FridayApril 14
  15. SaturdayApril 15
  16. SundayApril 16
  17. MondayApril 17
  18. TuesdayApril 18
  19. WednesdayApril 19
  20. ThursdayApril 20
  21. FridayApril 21
  22. SaturdayApril 22
  23. SundayApril 23
  24. MondayApril 24
  25. TuesdayApril 25
  26. WednesdayApril 26
  27. ThursdayApril 27
  28. FridayApril 28
  29. SaturdayApril 29
  30. SundayApril 30
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  1. SaturdayApril 1Lent
  2. SundayApril 2Lent
  3. MondayApril 3Lent
  4. TuesdayApril 4Lent
  5. WednesdayApril 5Lent
  6. ThursdayApril 6Lent
  7. FridayApril 7Lent
  8. SaturdayApril 8Lent
  9. SundayApril 9Lent
  10. MondayApril 10Lent
  11. TuesdayApril 11Lent
  12. WednesdayApril 12Lent
  13. ThursdayApril 13Sacred Triduum
  14. FridayApril 14Sacred Triduum
  15. SaturdayApril 15Sacred Triduum
  16. SundayApril 16Easter
  17. MondayApril 17Easter
  18. TuesdayApril 18Easter
  19. WednesdayApril 19Easter
  20. ThursdayApril 20Easter
  21. FridayApril 21Easter
  22. SaturdayApril 22Easter
  23. SundayApril 23Easter
  24. MondayApril 24Easter
  25. TuesdayApril 25Easter
  26. WednesdayApril 26Easter
  27. ThursdayApril 27Easter
  28. FridayApril 28Easter
  29. SaturdayApril 29Easter
  30. SundayApril 30Easter
Marian celebrationSolemnitySunday or feastDevotional observance
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.

  1. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  2. 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

  3. Sunday

    Fifth Sunday of Lent

  4. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  5. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  6. Commemoration

    Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  7. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  8. Commemoration

    Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest

  9. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  10. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  11. Commemoration

    Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Priest

  12. Weekday

    Lenten Weekday

  13. Sunday

    Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

  14. Weekday

    Monday of Holy Week

  15. Weekday

    Tuesday of Holy Week

  16. Weekday

    Wednesday of Holy Week

  17. Principal liturgical day

    Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday)

  18. Principal liturgical day

    Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

  19. Principal liturgical day

    Holy Saturday

  20. Sunday

    Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

  21. Day within the Easter Octave

    Monday within the Octave of Easter

  22. Day within the Easter Octave

    Tuesday within the Octave of Easter

  23. Day within the Easter Octave

    Wednesday within the Octave of Easter

  24. Day within the Easter Octave

    Thursday within the Octave of Easter

  25. Day within the Easter Octave

    Friday within the Octave of Easter

  26. Day within the Easter Octave

    Saturday within the Octave of Easter

  27. Sunday

    Second Sunday of Easter (Or Sunday of Divine Mercy)

  28. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  29. Optional Memorial

    Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

  30. Feast

    Saint Mark, Evangelist

  31. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  32. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  33. Weekday

    Easter Weekday

  34. Optional Memorial

    Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr

  35. 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 consecration

  36. Memorial

    Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

  37. Sunday

    Third Sunday of Easter

This year’s observance notes

The civil year crosses two liturgical years. Transfers and precedence below follow the official annual U.S. calendar.

  • Saint Joseph is transferred from the Third Sunday of Lent to Monday, March 20.
  • The Ascension is shown on Sunday, May 28, as observed in most U.S. dioceses. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, and Philadelphia observe it on Thursday, May 25.
  • The Immaculate Heart is not separately observed because June 24 is the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
Open the official 2028 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.