Church Year by Cross + Covenant

By Cross + Covenant

Overview

Church Year puts the Western church calendar inside Claude. Ask where any date from 1583 to 4099 falls: the season, the week of the season, the day's observance and color, the church year and its lectionary year (A, B or C), and that year's Easter and Orthodox Pascha. List upcoming feasts and fasts, with the 1979 Book of Common Prayer rules that move a feast off a Sunday or out of Holy Week applied. Get the appointed first reading, psalm, second reading and gospel for any Sunday or major feast from the public-domain 1979 Book of Common Prayer lectionary, with text from the World English Bible or King James Version. Lay out a sermon series to see which book runs across consecutive Sundays. Every date is computed and tested against published church calendars. Free, read-only, no account.

Tools

plan_sermon_series

Claude

Lays out a run of Sundays from a start date: each Sunday's name, season, color, lectionary year and appointed readings from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer lectionary, the seasons the run crosses, feasts that fall on those Sundays, and every book read on three or more consecutive Sundays, with the longest such run named as a possible series spine. Rule-based, no generated text.

readings_for_sunday

Claude

Returns the appointed Bible readings (first reading, psalm, second reading, gospel, with the alternatives) for a Sunday or major feast from the three-year Sunday lectionary of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which is public domain. Give a date (a weekday without its own lessons moves to the next Sunday) or an occasion such as "advent-1", "proper-23", "easter-day" or "christmas-day" with a year of A, B or C. With include_text, adds the passage text from the World English Bible or King James Version, both public domain. Citations only, never another translation.

season_for_date

Claude

Returns where a date falls in the Western church year: the season (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, or the season after Pentecost, also called Ordinary Time), the week of the season, the day's observance and liturgical color, the church year and its lectionary year (A, B or C), and that year's Western Easter and Orthodox Pascha. Defaults to today in Mountain Time.

upcoming_feast_days

Claude

Lists the dated feasts, fasts and holy days in a window: Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Christ the King, Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, the feasts of our Lord, apostles and evangelists, with each day's color. Applies the 1979 Book of Common Prayer rules that move a feast off a Sunday or out of Holy Week and Easter Week. Optionally includes Orthodox Pascha, Julian-calendar Christmas and Reformation Day.

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