Subject: 'austraLasia' # 269
THE LITURGICAL CALENDAR AVAILABLE ON FILE
P. Newbery sdb
HONG KONG: 1st Jan '00 -- I have entered all the feasts for the year into a
file that you can upload
to your computer so each year the liturgical calendar will be available
without any further work needed.
Microsoft Outlook, the desktop utilities that come with Windows includes a
"Calendar". The Calendar can be customized by adding or removing holidays
etc.. e.g. American Holidays can be removed and, for example, Australian,
Indian, Italian or English holidays added (or all can be included).
One of the holiday options that can be installed is "Christian Religious
Holidays". These include many of the items in the liturgical year (including
for example even the Feast of the Immaculate Conception; sundays of advent
etc...)
IN ADDITION:
I myself have put in all the feasts included in the ORDO for the Liturgical
Year of the Universal Church (i.e. including local feasts)
Each entry includes
1. The name of the Saint (e.g. St. Peter Canisius)
2. His/her status (Pastor & Doctor)
3. Type of feast (optional memoria/memoria/festum/sollemnitas)
4. Color of the day (white/red/green/violet)
One entry, for example would give the following information.
St. Peter Canisius - Pastor & Doctor (optional memoria - white)
All Salesian feasts are included as in the Book of Salesian Offices
Suggestions to include a brief accoount of each saint's life were rejected
since it would make the file too large to circulate by e-mail. Attempts to
include the readings for each feast became too complicated (Years 1, 2 on
weekdays; Year ABC on Sundays). I have not yet figured out how to include
some feasts such as the Sacred Heart (I think) which is two Sundays after
Trinity Sunday which is two Sundays after Pentecost. Christ the King is
similar because it is the last Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent.
The file is in a ZIP format and will download in approximately 30 seconds at
36000 baud. After you have downloaded it, "unzip" the file. In Microsoft
Outlook go to the "file" menu and click "import/export" then follow the
instructions for "importing a file". The file is in a CSV format (i.e. Comma
Separated Values - for Windows). In the process of "exporting" the file, it
was only possilble to include the feasts for the next twenty five years. (By
that time I will be over 75 years old - if I am still around)
If you would like to have a copy of the file just let me know by e-mail.
There is a slight catch!! (it seems that there always is!). I myself have
tried downloading the file and installing it on another computer. That
works OK. However, I originally entered the data as "all day event". When I
downloaded the file and installed it, however, for the first year the feasts
were installed as "appointments". All subsequent years, however, seemed to
be OK. It is possible to alter the first year manually from "appointment" to
"all day event". Anyway, I have reached the limits of my techonological
know (and time for that matter) now and hope that someone with some more
expertise can do the job properly. This is only a beginning and I hope some
of the professional liturgists out there will eventually produce a much more
professional version. To date
however, I have never heard of the ORDO being available in computer
format.If someone does know of a version please let me know.
Best regards
Peter
scugnizzo@bigfoot.com
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