We would like to create a Catholic Lectionary with SAB. The Reading Plan has some of the right elements, but in the case of a Lectionary, the readings are supposed to be tied directly with a date, whereas a Reading Plan can start on any date and continues from there. There are a few comments about Lectionaries in this thread: Daily Scripture reading plan? - #17 by OJ_Gamache, but I believe this discussion was before the Reading Plan feature had been created, so the landscape has changed a bit.
The Lectionary modules on LingTran (Example Modules | LingTranSoft Wiki) only seem to have the Sunday readings, and aren’t tied to any dates. We have found a French source of the reading calendars tied to dates (Calendriers liturgiques | Liturgie & Sacrements). We’ve had some luck saving those PDFs out as text files and using some clever Regular Expressions to get a list of readings. But if you put those into an app, the app would need to be updated every year. (The readings cycle around again after 3 years, but they would appear on different dates.)
I haven’t figured out a good way to do this yet. Does anyone have suggestions? The Lectionary readings could be put into a RAB app, with a book for each month, and a chapter for each day of the month. So you could go to the book of May, and select chapter 5 to see the readings for May 5th. Or is there some way to use the Reading Plans in SAB?
Surely this is something that others have already done?
Thanks for any help you can give,
Jeff