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1765 Regina Begin the Thirty Days

Begin here The Thirty Days

Thirty days to the heart of the home.

The Church is a bride and a mother, and Mary is her perfect image. The family is the domestic church, and you are called to image the Church in your home, as Mary did at Nazareth: a bride who receives, a mother who gives life, a keeper of the lamp.

Married or single, a mother or longing to be one, widowed or consecrated: this calling is yours. One teaching, one woman, one practice and one prayer a day, about ten minutes, for thirty days. Free, with no email and no account.

Begin the Thirty DaysHow it works

How the Thirty Days work

Each day has five parts.

  • The Word. A short teaching from Scripture, in the Douay-Rheims, and from the Church’s own documents, with every claim cited.
  • The Woman. A woman of Scripture or a saint who lived what the day teaches.
  • Today. One practice of about ten minutes. Where it differs for your state of life, it is also written for a wife, a mother, a single woman, a widow and the consecrated.
  • The Prayer. A traditional prayer from a public-domain source, or a prayer plainly marked as composed for 1765 Regina.
  • Sources. Every source, with a link, so you can read it yourself.

A new day opens at midnight on your own calendar, counting from the day you begin. When you have done the day’s practice, mark it kept. Your streak counts the days you keep in a row: one missed day ends it, and there are no grace days. If you kept yesterday’s practice and only forgot to mark it, Log yesterday records it, and the run goes on. A day you missed stays open to read and keep later; it counts for the day you keep it.

When the thirty days are done, two tools carry them on: the Regina Rule, a rule of life you can keep, and the Marian Consecration of St Louis de Montfort.

It is free: no price, no email, no account. What you keep is stored on this device, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you turn on Regina Key sync, which sends only a locked copy we cannot read. See Your data and Privacy.

How this is made: drafted with AI assistance under strict rules; every claim was checked by a separate AI review against Scripture, the Catechism and the Church’s documents, and the sources are listed under each day.

Why a woman would begin here

Saint Paul writes to husbands and wives, and then lifts his eyes: “This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church” (Ephesians 5:32, Douay-Rheims). The Church is the Bride of Christ. And the Second Vatican Council teaches that the Church, “by receiving the word of God in faith becomes herself a mother” (Lumen Gentium 64).

In Mary all of this is already whole. The Council calls her “a type of the Church in the order of faith, charity and perfect union with Christ” (Lumen Gentium 63).

The same Council calls the family “so to speak, the domestic church” (Lumen Gentium 11). The family is the domestic church, not any one person in it. But the woman at its heart is asked to image the Church there, as Mary did in the small house at Nazareth: receiving, giving life, keeping watch.

This calling does not wait for a wedding or a child. Saint John Paul II wrote that “In the Church every human being - male and female - is the ‘Bride’, in that he or she accepts the gift of the love of Christ the Redeemer” (Mulieris Dignitatem 25), and that “Spiritual motherhood takes on many different forms” (Mulieris Dignitatem 21).

Scripture praises the valiant woman: “her lamp shall not be put out in the night” (Proverbs 31:18, Douay-Rheims). Thirty days is a beginning: one lamp, kept lit, one day at a time.

The thirty days

I · Crown Days 1–7

  1. The Church is a bride and a mother
  2. Be it done to me
  3. A queen who serves
  4. Ten minutes as God’s friend
  5. Three times a day, the house remembers
  6. Washed white
  7. The day that is the Lord’s

II · Cradle Days 8–14

  1. Whom has God entrusted to you?
  2. The first catechist
  3. Bless your children
  4. The cradle and the cross
  5. The body is a gift
  6. Mothers of souls
  7. The hidden years

III · Covenant Days 15–21

  1. More than a contract: a covenant
  2. Ephesians 5, read whole
  3. Peace in the house
  4. When it is hard, and when it is dangerous
  5. Chastity in every state
  6. The communion death does not end
  7. Your life on the altar, with Christ’s

IV · The Church in the Home Days 22–28

  1. A corner of the house kept for God
  2. Grace at your table
  3. Your house keeps the Church’s calendar
  4. Holy things in a holy house
  5. The open door
  6. Women who carry Christ to each other
  7. The Rosary in the house

V · The Rule and the Crown Days 29–30

  1. A rule you can keep
  2. Crowned

If home is not safe

Four of these days speak of marriage and of peace in the house. If someone in your home hurts you, threatens you, controls you or makes you afraid, that is not a hard season to endure, and the Church does not ask you to stay in danger: her law names grave danger to a spouse or the children as a legitimate cause for leaving (Code of Canon Law, can. 1153 §1).

In immediate danger, call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is free and confidential: call 1-800-799-7233 (800-799-SAFE), or text START to 88788. If you are thinking of harming yourself, call or text 988. If someone checks your phone, use one that is safe. Inside the Thirty Days, the button If you are not safe at home opens these steps at any time.

Questions

Is the Thirty Days free?

Yes. There is no price and nothing to buy, and you do not need an email address or an account.

What if I miss a day?

Your place is kept. The next day still opens on schedule, and the day you missed stays open to read and keep. Your streak starts over after a missed day; if you kept yesterday’s practice and only forgot to mark it, Log yesterday records it.

I am not married, or not a mother. Is this for me?

Yes. Spiritual motherhood belongs to every woman. Where a day’s practice differs, it is also written for a wife, a mother, a single woman, a widow and the consecrated; choose your state of life and those words come first.

Can I begin on another day?

Yes. Begin today, or choose a day up to sixty days ahead. If you already began on paper, you may set a start up to twenty-nine days back.

Who wrote it?

It was drafted with AI assistance under strict rules; every claim was checked by a separate AI review against Scripture, the Catechism and the Church’s documents, and the sources are listed under each day.

Can I print it?

Yes. Each day prints as a page, and the 30-day card prints the whole month on one sheet.

Sources for this page

The daily readings quote the Catechism. Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America Copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. -- Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with Permission. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—Libreria Editrice Vaticana.