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authorLukasz Kasprzak <lukas@labunix.xyz>2026-08-27 00:37:45 +0200
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fix(of): break the movable-BVM-memorial tie per a CDWDS Notification
Mary, Mother of the Church (Easter+50) and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Easter+69) are both movable obligatory memorials that can land on a FIXED obligatory memorial's own date -- e.g. 2011-06-13 and 2015-06-13, both against Anthony of Padua. Both candidates banded identically at Tabula III.10 (100, both universal Memoria_obligatoria), a tie band could not break, so Precedence.resolve's kernel-level alphabetical Slug.compare tie-break silently picked instead -- 892 days for Mater Ecclesiae and 1109 for the Immaculate Heart across 1583-9999, all one shape (measured against the pre-fix alphabetical order directly, zero unexplained). Searched the corpus rather than inventing a rule. colitur's two previously-checked primary sources really are silent: the 2018 decree (AAS 110, 437-438) never addresses universal-calendar coincidence, and Normae n. 14's third clause resolves only two AD-LIBITUM memorials colliding. A third source resolves it: the CDWDS's own "Notification on the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church" (24 March 2018 -- same dicastery and signatories as the decree; published only on vatican.va, confirmed absent from the AAS 2018 combined index) states that when this memorial "coincides with another Memorial of a Saint or Blessed... the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is to prevail," and extends the identical reasoning to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by name. This is a rubric, not colitur's own reasoned choice. Implemented as a sub-rank of 95, strictly between Tabula entries 9 and 10 -- the same "fits between neighbours" technique this module already uses elsewhere -- scoped to the two named slugs rather than [subject = Bvm], since the Notification's own reasoning is specifically about a memorial's link to a movable solemnity of the Lord, not a blanket Marian precedence. Golden pin updated: test_rite_of.ml's 2011-06-13 tie now pins Mary, Mother of the Church as observed (was Anthony of Padua, labelled "known arbitrary"), with the header rewritten to state the outcome now rests on the Notification, not a coin-flip. The litcal oracle allow-list gains L10: litcal's own grade vocabulary has no representation for a 95 sub-rank (everything Memoria_obligatoria reads "Memorial"), a representational gap in litcal, not a computational disagreement -- the identity axis is untouched and needed no new entry.
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@@ -124,6 +124,87 @@ let is_nativity_octave_day (ctx : Vocab_of.season Precedence.context) =
let is_lenten_feria (ctx : Vocab_of.season Precedence.context) =
ctx.season = Vocab_of.Lent
+(* W3 (of-known-wrongs, 2026-08-26). Both are shipped MOVABLE obligatory
+ memorials of the BVM (data/of/calendar-2002.sexp: [immaculate-heart-of-mary],
+ Easter_offset 69; data/of/amendments/006-mary-mother-of-the-church.sexp:
+ [mary-mother-of-the-church], Easter_offset 50), and both can land on a
+ FIXED obligatory memorial's own date in a real year -- confirmed, not
+ merely possible: e.g. 2011-06-13 (Mater Ecclesiae vs Anthony of Padua) and
+ 2015-06-13 (Immaculate Heart vs Anthony of Padua, three years apart via
+ the other offset). Both candidates then band identically at Tabula
+ III.10 (100, both universal Memoria_obligatoria) -- a tie {!band} could
+ not break on its own, so {!Colitur_kernel.Precedence.resolve}'s kernel
+ tie-break (Slug.compare, alphabetical) silently decided instead: 892 days
+ for Mater Ecclesiae and 1109 for the Immaculate Heart across 1583-9999
+ (measured with the fix applied and compared against the plain alphabetical
+ order every one of those days would otherwise have taken -- see this
+ task's own report for the full sweep).
+
+ NEITHER of colitur's two checked primary sources resolves this: the 2018
+ decree inscribing Mater Ecclesiae (AAS 110, 437-438) is silent on
+ universal-calendar coincidence (its own coincidence clause covers only a
+ PARTICULAR calendar keeping the celebration on a different day at a
+ higher grade); Normae n. 14's third clause ("Si eodem die plures
+ inscribuntur in calendario memoriae ad libitum, una tantum celebrari
+ potest, omissis ceteris.") resolves only memoriae AD LIBITUM colliding
+ with each other, and n. 14's second clause covers only the Lenten-feria
+ case. Two OBLIGATORY memorials colliding is genuinely unaddressed by
+ either.
+
+ RESOLVED on a THIRD, later primary source, found by searching the
+ corpus (docs/research/of/), not invented: the Congregation for Divine
+ Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments' own "Notification on the
+ Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church" (24 March
+ 2018 -- the SAME dicastery, the SAME two signatories, Robertus Card.
+ Sarah [Praefectus] and Arturus Roche [Archiepiscopus a Secretis], as the
+ 11 February 2018 decree itself). Published only on the Dicastery's own
+ site (vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/
+ rc_con_ccdds_doc_20180324_notificazione-mater-ecclesiae_{en,it,la,sp}.html);
+ confirmed NOT listed in the AAS 2018 combined index
+ (docs/research/of/aas-indices/aas-indice2018.pdf, checked directly via
+ pdftotext) alongside the decree it follows up, which IS indexed there
+ (p.437) -- so this is a genuine dicasterial clarification, not an AAS
+ promulgation, and is cited as such rather than papered over as "AAS n.".
+ Its own operative Latin: "In casu occurrentiae huius memoriae cum alia
+ memoria principia generalia normarum universalium de Anno liturgico et
+ de Calendario (cf. Tabula dierum liturgicorum, n. 60) sequenda sunt. Cum
+ autem memoria B.M.V. Ecclesiae Matris sit Pentecoste coniuncta, sicut
+ pariter memoria Immaculati Cordis B.M.V. celebrationi Sacratissimi
+ Cordis Iesu coniuncta est, in casu occurrentiae cum alia memoria
+ alicuius Sancti vel Beati, iuxta liturgicam traditionem praestantiae
+ inter personas, memoria B.M.V. praevalere debet." The Dicastery's own
+ official English: "In the case where this Memorial coincides with
+ another Memorial the principles of the Universal Norms... are to be
+ followed (cf. Table of Liturgical Days, n. 60). Given that the Memorial
+ of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church is linked to Pentecost,
+ as the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary is
+ similarly linked to the celebration of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
+ then, in the case where it coincides with another Memorial of a Saint or
+ Blessed, and following the liturgical tradition of pre-eminence amongst
+ persons, the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is to prevail." The
+ Notification itself names BOTH memorials by this same analogy -- Mater
+ Ecclesiae's own rule IS the Immaculate Heart's pre-existing one, restated
+ -- so both are listed here, not only the one this task's own defect
+ report was filed against.
+
+ THIS IS THEREFORE A RUBRIC, NOT COLITUR'S OWN REASONED CHOICE: a
+ primary, dicastery-issued clarification of universal application, not an
+ analogy imported from the EF's own RG 91 entry 14 (which was the
+ fallback this task's brief authorized if nothing resolving turned up).
+
+ Implemented as a sub-rank strictly BETWEEN Tabula entries 9 and 10 (95,
+ not 100/110) -- the same "fits between neighbours" technique this
+ module's own header comment documents for exactly this situation. Never
+ climbs above entries 1-9: neither memorial's own date range (Easter+50 =
+ 11 May-14 June; Easter+69 = 30 May-3 July) can ever reach a Tabula 1-9
+ day, so 95 is inert there. Deliberately NOT a [subject = Bvm] rule: the
+ Notification's own reasoning is specifically that EACH of these two
+ memorials is tied to a movable SOLEMNITY OF THE LORD (Pentecost, the
+ Sacred Heart) -- a FIXED BVM memorial (e.g. Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12
+ December) gets no such boost, because nothing in the Notification's own
+ text extends this to Marian memorials in general. *)
+let movable_bvm_memorials = [ "mary-mother-of-the-church"; "immaculate-heart-of-mary" ]
+
let band (ctx : Vocab_of.season Precedence.context)
(c : Vocab_of.rank Precedence.candidate) : int =
let temporal = c.Precedence.origin = Precedence.Temporal in
@@ -191,6 +272,12 @@ let band (ctx : Vocab_of.season Precedence.context)
temporal
&& (is_late_advent_feria ctx || is_nativity_octave_day ctx || is_lenten_feria ctx)
then 90 (* Tabula II.9 *)
+ else if
+ c.cel.rank = Vocab_of.Memoria_obligatoria && List.mem (slug_of c) movable_bvm_memorials
+ then
+ 95 (* Between Tabula 9 and 10 -- W3, see [movable_bvm_memorials]'s own
+ comment above for the Notification this cites and why it is
+ scoped to these two slugs rather than [subject = Bvm]. *)
else if c.cel.rank = Vocab_of.Memoria_obligatoria && not (is_proper layer) then
100 (* Tabula III.10 -- universal or proper; the [layer] test is what
separates entry 10 from entry 11. Unlike entries 3, 5 and 7, "or