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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

July 2026

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

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  1. WednesdayJuly 1
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  29. WednesdayJuly 29
  30. ThursdayJuly 30
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  1. WednesdayJuly 1Ordinary Time
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  3. FridayJuly 3Ordinary Time
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Read the month’s observance notes and devotional responses

Keep July 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

    Wednesday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time

  2. Optional Memorial

    Saint Junípero Serra, Priest

  3. Weekday

    Thursday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time

  4. Feast

    Saint Thomas, Apostle

  5. Weekday

    Saturday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time

  6. Optional observance

    Independence Day

  7. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  8. 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

  9. Sunday

    Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  10. Weekday

    Monday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

  11. Optional Memorial

    Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr

  12. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

  13. Weekday

    Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

  14. Weekday

    Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

  15. Optional Memorial

    Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

  16. Weekday

    Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

  17. Memorial

    Saint Benedict, Abbot

  18. Sunday

    Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  19. Weekday

    Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

  20. Optional Memorial

    Saint Henry

  21. Memorial

    Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin

  22. MemorialMarian witness

    Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

    The Seraphic Doctor contemplated Mary within the mystery of Christ and praised the humble Virgin through whom the Savior came to us.

    Hear St. Bonaventure

  23. Weekday

    Thursday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

  24. Optional MemorialMarian

    Our Lady of Mount Carmel

    Under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Church honors Mary’s maternal protection and the Carmelite school of prayer. Wear her Scapular as a sign of belonging and live what it signifies.

    Live beneath her mantle

  25. Weekday

    Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

  26. Weekday

    Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

  27. Optional Memorial

    Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest

  28. Optional MemorialMarian

    The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

  29. Sunday

    Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  30. Weekday

    Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

  31. Optional Memorial

    Saint Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr

  32. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

  33. Optional Memorial

    Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  34. Feast

    Saint Mary Magdalene

  35. Weekday

    Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

  36. Optional Memorial

    Saint Bridget, Religious

  37. Weekday

    Friday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

  38. Optional Memorial

    Saint Sharbel Makhlūf, Priest

  39. Feast

    Saint James, Apostle

  40. Sunday

    Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  41. Weekday

    Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

  42. Weekday

    Tuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

  43. Memorial

    Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus

  44. Weekday

    Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

  45. Optional Memorial

    Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

  46. Memorial

    Saint Ignatius of Loyola, 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.