; ============================================================================ ; An EXAMPLE overlay calendar for `colitur --overlay`. ; ; This file is shipped as documentation you can run, not as calendar data. ; Every celebration in it is INVENTED, with slugs prefixed `example-` so they ; cannot collide with anything real. Copy it, gut it, and put your own diocese ; or parish in its place. ; ; colitur day 2026 --overlay /share/colitur/examples/diocesan-example.sexp ; ; WHAT AN OVERLAY IS ; ; A list of directives applied ON TOP of the shipped 1962 universal calendar, ; never instead of it. colitur applies its own data/ef/adjustments.sexp first, ; then each --overlay in the order given. Later writers win, so a local ; calendar can deliberately override a universal entry by naming its slug. ; ; AN OVERLAY IS APPLIED, NOT VALIDATED. colitur's five test layers assert ; things about the SHIPPED calendar; none of them can vouch for this file or ; yours. A directive naming a slug that does not exist prints a warning on ; stderr and the run continues, so a typo is visible rather than silent; a ; file that fails to parse is fatal. ; ; THE FOUR DIRECTIVES ; ; (Add ) a celebration the universal calendar lacks ; (Suppress ) remove one it has ; (Replace ) swap one out wholesale ; (Edit ()) change named fields only ; ; DATES ; ; (Fixed (month 7) (day 11)) a civil date, every year ; (Easter_offset -9) signed days from Easter ; (Nth_weekday (month 10) (nth 1) (weekday Sun)) nth weekday of a month; ; negative nth counts back, ; so (nth -1) is the last ; ; RANKS are Class1..Class4; STATUS is Feast or Commemoration_only; COLOUR is ; White Red Green Violet Rose Black; SUBJECT is Lord Bvm Saint Temporal. ; NAMES are keyed by language code and any set of languages is allowed. ; CITATIONS are reading references, never scripture text; omit them and the ; day falls through to whatever the resolution chain finds. ; ============================================================================ ((id diocesan-example) (directives ( ; ---- 1. A fixed-date local patron, with its own proper readings ------- ; The commonest thing a local calendar adds. III class is the usual rank ; for a diocesan patron who is not the cathedral's titular. (Add ((date (Fixed (month 7) (day 11))) (cel ((slug example-local-patron) (names ((la "Sancti Exempli Patroni") (en "St Example, Patron") (pl "\197\154w. Przyk\197\130adu, Patrona"))) (rank Class3) (status Feast) (colour White) (subject Saint) (citations (((part First) (reference "Ecclus 45:1-6")) ((part Gospel) (reference "Matt 25:14-23")))) (layer diocesan-example))))) ; ---- 2. A MOVABLE feast: the first Sunday of October ------------------ ; The anniversary of a church's own dedication is I class IN THAT CHURCH, ; which is why this one outranks and displaces the Sunday it lands on -- ; at III class it would lose to a II-class Sunday every year. (Add ((date (Nth_weekday (month 10) (nth 1) (weekday Sun))) (cel ((slug example-dedication) (names ((la "Dedicatio Ecclesiae Exempli") (en "Dedication of the Example Church"))) (rank Class1) (status Feast) (colour White) (subject Saint) (citations (((part First) (reference "Apoc 21:2-5")) ((part Gospel) (reference "Luke 19:1-10")))) (layer diocesan-example))))) ; ---- 3. An EASTER-RELATIVE local commemoration ------------------------ ; Easter+61 is the Friday after Corpus Christi. A commemoration never ; wins the day; it is added to whatever office the day already has, ; subject to the admission limits of RG 111. (Add ((date (Easter_offset 61)) (cel ((slug example-local-commemoration) (names ((la "Commemoratio Exempli") (en "A Local Commemoration"))) (rank Class4) (status Commemoration_only) (colour White) (subject Saint) (citations ()) (layer diocesan-example))))) ; ---- 4. RAISING a universal feast for local use ----------------------- ; A saint the whole Church keeps at III class may be the patron of your ; diocese and kept higher. Edit changes only the fields named; everything ; else, including the date and the readings, stays as shipped. (Edit stanislaus ((Set_rank Class1) (Set_colour Red))) ; ---- 5. SUPPRESSING one ----------------------------------------------- ; Shown for completeness and commented out, because suppressing a ; universal feast is a real liturgical act and should be a deliberate ; one. Uncomment only if your own calendar genuinely omits it. ; ; (Suppress example-not-kept-here) )))