Sacred Calendar
The Roman year ordered for memory, penance, feasts, saints, and the daily pilgrimage of the faithful.
Calendar standard
Pre-1955 Roman usage
The calendar follows the universal Roman year under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X, with the Roman Martyrology preserved as a distinct daily witness.
The day is presented for prayer, recollection, study, and perseverance in the City.
Daily observance
Today in the City of God
The Church keeps this day in holy time. The Pilgrim's Companion gathers the feast, daily quote, Martyrology, meditation, prayer, and related chapters into one daily path through the City.
Choose a date
Daily observance
Monday of Holy Week
Monday, March 30, 2026
Season: Passiontide
The day is set within the Roman year so its feast, Martyrology, daily quote, prayer, and reading path may be received together without blurring their proper sources.
Today's pilgrimage
Monday of Holy Week
Rank: Feria of the First Class
Color: violet
Quote for the day
Thomas a Kempis
“Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.”
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - March 30
At Rome, on the Appian way, the martyrdom of blessed Quirinus, tribune, baptized with all his household, by pope St. Alexander, who was imprisoned in his house. Under the emperor Adrian, he was delivered to the judge Aurelian, and, as he persevered in the confession of the faith, his tongue was plucked out, he was stretched on the rack, his hands and feet were cut off, and the sword terminated the course of his martyrdom. — At Thessalonica, the birthday of the holy martyrs Domninus, Victor, and their companions. — At Constantinople, the commemoration of many holy martyrs of the Catholic communion, whom the heresiarch Macedonius, in the time of Constantius, put to death by unheard-of kinds of torments. For among other tortures, he cut off the breasts of Christian women by pressing them between the lids of chests, and seared the wounds with hot iron. — At Senlis, the demise of St. Regulus, bishop of Aries. — At Orleans, in France, St. Pastor, bishop. — At Syracuse, St. Zosimus, bishop and confessor. — On Mount Sinai, St. John Climacus, abbot. — At Aquino, St. Clinius, confessor.
Meditation
The Cross in Exile
The day teaches the soul that humiliation, contradiction, and penance do not mean God has lost His rule. The Cross is the form by which fidelity is purified. The Church in exile must learn to suffer without surrendering truth and to repent without losing hope.
Related paths
Walk the day through the City.
Today's chapters
Read with the feast.
Prayer
The day should become prayer.
O Lord, bring this day to judgment before Thy mercy. Show me where I obeyed, where I resisted, where I loved, and where I must begin again.
Thought for the pilgrim
The day must end beneath truth.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.
Source notes
Universal Roman Calendar under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X
Fasting and abstinence according to the laws observed in 1952
Daily quotations and pilgrimage excerpts should come from Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, traditional popes before 1958, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, or received liturgical texts.
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company; the local 1916 text is displayed and traceable to its source lines.
- Computed from Gregorian Easter.