Live the Church’s year at home, one season at a time

Plan the Church's year at home. This planner begins on the First Sunday of Advent 2026 and covers all of 2027, so you can start using it this Advent.

Each month has a full-page calendar with the liturgical colour of every day, the Sundays, solemnities, feasts and obligatory memorials, and a few well-loved optional memorials. Facing it is a feasts and readings page that lists every Sunday, solemnity and feast in the month with its Mass readings by Scripture reference, plus space for liturgical living plans, prayer intentions and parish dates.

At the front: the year at a glance (seasons, colours, key dates, Sunday Year B and Weekday Cycle I), and a page of holy days of obligation and days of fasting and abstinence for 2027. At the back: season planners for Advent and Christmas, Lent and the Triduum, Easter and Ordinary Time, a feast day planner, Sunday Mass notes, a page for family name days, patrons and sacraments, and a prayer intentions list.

Dates follow the USCCB Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America 2027 (Ordinary Form), and were cross-checked against an independent calendar computation. The planner explains where other countries differ (for example Epiphany, Ascension and Corpus Christi) so families outside the USA can adjust. Readings are given by reference only; no lectionary text is reproduced.

Keep Advent and Christmas as seasons, a little at a time. This kit is written for parents and godparents and is dated for this year.

Start with the Advent wreath guide: the four Sundays of Advent 2026 with their readings by reference, candle colours (three violet and one rose for Gaudete Sunday) and a short family prayer for each week. Then follow the day-by-day Advent calendar from Sunday 29 November to Christmas Eve. Each day lists the celebration, the Gospel of the day at Mass and one small idea, such as putting shoes out for St Nicholas, a white or blue treat on the Immaculate Conception, or roses for Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Jesse Tree section has a 26-day reading list from Creation to the Nativity and 26 round ornaments with simple line drawings to colour and cut out. The O Antiphons page covers 17 to 23 December with their Latin and English titles, Scripture references and a home idea for each, and explains the hidden ERO CRAS. You also get the traditional St Andrew Christmas Novena with a tally tracker, a Christmas Time guide to the Baptism of the Lord on 10 January 2027, and a page on chalking the door at Epiphany.

Dates follow the USCCB calendar for the United States, with notes for families elsewhere.