Sanctoral database

The Roman Calendar webpage has been quiet for a while because I'm translating the 1962 sanctoral calendar into a small database I can read with a program. Here's a day from the database:

  "Dec-2" -> {
    "LatinName" -> "S. Bibianae Virg. et Mart.",
    "Class" -> "III",
    "Rank" -> 24.2,
    "RankDescription" -> "Fixed feasts III class inscribed in the calendar of the universal Church"

The name and class come from the Missale Romanum, and the rank and its description come from chapter 11, "Precedence of Liturgical Days", in the general rubrics.

Resources at Sancta Liturgia

English translations of Latin rubrics and such at the Sancta Liturgia blog and website.

Extraordinary Form breviary online

A marvelously well-executed site: http://officiumdivinum.org.

Calendar calculator for the Ordinary Form

The Dominican Friars of Australia have a nifty calculator for the Ordinary Form calendar, currently running from 2009-2037.

A very nice Extraordinary Form calendar

The Liturgy Office of England and Wales has done an excellent job of providing calendars for the modern celebration Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. This page has a table of moveable feasts through 2018 and explanations of calendar arcana, and it has links to each month's calendar in the current year.

John Henry Newman on the Roman Calendar

I didn't know he wrote an essay on the Roman Calendar! It starts here.

In principio

Please see the project homepage. More later.