diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bac08ff..6cdf779 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Everything is computed locally by `typikon`, so none of this touches the
 network, and the widget re-reads only when the date rolls over — the answer
 changes at midnight and at no other moment.
 
+![The widget during the Nativity Fast](docs/nativity-fast.png)
+
 ## Install
 
 `typikon` first, since all three front ends shell out to it:
@@ -107,17 +109,25 @@ set your own before the `@import`.
 ## What it shows
 
 The feast or the day's principal commemoration, the fast and why, the season,
-the week ahead, and Pascha. Two details worth pointing out:
+the week ahead, and Pascha.
 
-- **The church date** appears beside the civil one whenever they differ, which
-  on the old calendar is always. 25 December and 7 January are the same feast.
-- **Forefeasts, afterfeasts and leave-takings** get their own quiet line rather
-  than crowding out the commemoration that makes the day itself. They repeat
-  for days at a time.
+**The church date is always in the corner.** On the new calendar it echoes the
+wall calendar; on the old it is the answer you came for. Below, ROCOR on 7
+January — which is 25 December, and the Nativity.
 
-The legend is built from the week in view rather than hardcoded, because the
+![The Nativity on the old calendar](docs/old-calendar.png)
+
+**Forefeasts, afterfeasts and leave-takings** get their own quiet line rather
+than crowding out the commemoration that makes the day itself. They repeat for
+days at a time, and a widget that leads with "Post-festive Day of the
+Exaltation" for a week has told you nothing.
+
+**The legend is built from the week in view**, not hardcoded, because the
 levels a tradition uses are its own — six under the Typikon, three under
-Ruthenian particular law — and the words for them differ too.
+Ruthenian particular law — and the words for them differ too. Great Week uses
+nearly all of them:
+
+![Great and Holy Week](docs/great-week.png)
 
 ## Licence
 
diff --git a/docs/great-week.png b/docs/great-week.png
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diff --git a/quickshell/modules/Horologion.qml b/quickshell/modules/Horologion.qml
index ddc8b67..7053645 100644
--- a/quickshell/modules/Horologion.qml
+++ b/quickshell/modules/Horologion.qml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import qs.services
 Panel {
     id: root
     title: "Church calendar"
-    note: Typikon.available
-          ? (Typikon.season || Typikon.churchDate)
-          : ""
+    // The church date, always: on the old calendar it is the answer people
+    // came for, and on the new it is a harmless echo of the title bar.
+    note: Typikon.available ? Typikon.churchDate : ""
 
     // The glyph carries what kind of fast it is, so obligation has to be shown
     // some other way or it disappears with the text: the weekday takes the
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ Panel {
                     Layout.fillWidth: true
                     text: {
                         const bits = [Typikon.weekday];
-                        if (Typikon.churchDate !== ""
-                            && Typikon.churchDate !== Qt.formatDate(new Date(), "d MMMM"))
-                            bits.push(Typikon.churchDate);
                         if (Typikon.season !== "") bits.push(Typikon.season);
                         if (Typikon.obligatory) bits.push("obligatory");
                         return bits.join("  ·  ");
diff --git a/quickshell/services/Typikon.qml b/quickshell/services/Typikon.qml
index 41655b5..8b451c7 100644
--- a/quickshell/services/Typikon.qml
+++ b/quickshell/services/Typikon.qml
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Singleton {
     property string jurisdiction: ""
     // Today plus the next six, so the week ahead is visible at a glance.
     property int days: 7
+    // Empty means today. Set it to an ISO date to look at a different one --
+    // useful for seeing what Great Week will ask of you before it arrives.
+    property string forDate: ""
 
     property bool available: false
     property string error: ""
@@ -51,6 +54,8 @@ Singleton {
     // midnight and at no other moment.
     readonly property string _day: Qt.formatDateTime(clock.date, "yyyy-MM-dd")
     on_DayChanged: root.refresh()
+    onJurisdictionChanged: root.refresh()
+    onForDateChanged: root.refresh()
     Component.onCompleted: root.refresh()
 
     Process {
@@ -59,6 +64,8 @@ Singleton {
             const c = ["typikon", "--json", "--days", String(root.days)];
             if (root.jurisdiction !== "")
                 c.push("--jurisdiction", root.jurisdiction);
+            if (root.forDate !== "")
+                c.push("--date", root.forDate);
             return c;
         }
         stdout: StdioCollector {
diff --git a/quickshell/shot.qml b/quickshell/shot.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c379ac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/shot.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//@ pragma UseQApplication
+
+// A harness for taking the README screenshots: the real widget, on a plain
+// backdrop, at a known position. Not part of the shell -- run it with
+//
+//   SHOT_JURISDICTION=rocor SHOT_DATE=2027-01-07 quickshell -p quickshell/shot.qml
+//
+// It sits on the overlay layer at a fixed offset so a screen grab of that
+// rectangle is always the widget and never whatever was behind it.
+
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Layouts
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Wayland
+import qs
+import qs.modules
+import qs.services
+
+ShellRoot {
+    PanelWindow {
+        id: win
+        screen: Quickshell.screens[0]
+
+        WlrLayershell.layer: WlrLayer.Overlay
+        WlrLayershell.namespace: "horologion-shot"
+        exclusionMode: ExclusionMode.Ignore
+        color: "transparent"
+
+        anchors { top: true; left: true }
+        margins { top: 60; left: 60 }
+
+        // Fixed, so a screen grab of exactly this rectangle is exactly this
+        // window and never the desktop underneath it. The widget is shorter
+        // than this; the crop takes care of the difference.
+        implicitWidth: Config.width + 68
+        implicitHeight: 700
+
+        Rectangle {
+            anchors.fill: parent
+            gradient: Gradient {
+                GradientStop { position: 0.0; color: "#1b2016" }
+                GradientStop { position: 1.0; color: "#0e100c" }
+            }
+
+            ColumnLayout {
+                id: body
+                anchors.top: parent.top
+                anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
+                anchors.topMargin: 34
+                width: Config.width
+
+                Horologion {
+                    Component.onCompleted: {
+                        const j = Quickshell.env("SHOT_JURISDICTION");
+                        const d = Quickshell.env("SHOT_DATE");
+                        if (j && j !== "") Typikon.jurisdiction = j;
+                        if (d && d !== "") Typikon.forDate = d;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}