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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