daily-office-lectionary

Daily Office

This project is a query-able wrapper for Reuben Lillie's excellent JSON Daily Office Lectionary

Query API

Simply submit mongoDB stye queries using get or getMany to retrieve one or more matching daily lectionary entries.

Everything returns a promise.

const lectionary = require('daily-office-lectionary');
 
lectionary.get({year: "Year One", day: 'Dec 25'}).then(result=>{
   console.log(result);
   /*{
   year: 'Year One',
   season: 'Christmas',
   week: 'Christmas Day and Following',
   day: 'Dec 25',
   title: 'The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christmas Day',
   psalms: { 
      morning: [ '2', '85' ], 
      evening: [ '110:1–5(6–7)', '132' ] },
   lessons: {
      first: 'Zech 2:10–13',
      second: '1 John 4:7–16',
      gospel: 'John 3:31–36'
   },
   _id: '6UcpQxKk2WoSRDrt'
   }*/
});
 
lectionary.getMany({title: 'The First Sunday After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday'}).then(result=>{
   console.log(result);
   /*[{
     year: 'Year One',
     season: 'The Season after Pentecost',
     day: 'Sunday',
     title: 'The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday',
     psalms: { 
        morning: [ '146', '147' ], 
        evening: [ '111', '112', '113' ] },
     lessons: {
       first: 'Sir 43:1–12(27–33)',
       second: 'Eph 4:1–16',
       gospel: 'John 1:1–18'
     },
     _id: 'ok5pDjyEID3xeMBS'
   },
   {
      year: 'Year Two',
      season: 'The Season after Pentecost',
      day: 'Sunday',
      title: 'The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday',
      psalms: { 
         morning: [ '146', '147' ], 
         evening: [ '111', '112', '113' ] },
      lessons: {
         first: 'Job 38:1–11; 42:1–5',
         second: 'Rev 19:4–16',
         gospel: 'John 1:29–34'
      },
      _id: 'T5BQFjjKveoa62yb'
   }]*/
});
 

License

All code and documenation for this project is MIT Licensed.

The Book of Common Prayer is not and never has been under copyright. The Episcopal Church first ratified the BCP in 1789 and last certified it in 2007.