diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e458b2a..3e2eaa2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -174,6 +174,29 @@ See [the law and the fast](#the-law-and-the-fast-are-not-the-same-question) for what `--typikon` does with this, which is the flag most Byzantine Catholics will want. +### The other ten + +There are fourteen Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholic churches. The Slovak, +Hungarian, Krizevci, Italo-Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, +Russian and Albanian ones are **not** here, and the reason is worth stating: +their calendars could not be verified against anything published. General +references do not record them, and the churches' own sites render their +liturgical calendars in JavaScript. Guessing from geography would put an +unsourced claim in the one place this program is actually for. + +You do not need an entry to get a correct calendar. Ask your parish one +question, and the answer picks a reckoning: + +| is Pascha kept with… | and the fixed feasts… | | +|---|---|---| +| Rome | on the civil calendar | `--calendar western` | +| the local Orthodox | on the civil calendar | `--calendar new` | +| the local Orthodox | thirteen days behind | `--calendar old` | + +Add `--tradition slavic` or `--tradition greek` for the usage your books +follow. A patch adding your church, with a source for its calendar, is +welcome. + ## The fast Six levels, ordered from strictest to laxest. They are the Typikon's own diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs index 287bbe7..2606c58 100644 --- a/src/main.rs +++ b/src/main.rs @@ -149,6 +149,17 @@ fn list_jurisdictions() { } println!(); } + println!(" Not listed? There are fourteen Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholic"); + println!(" churches and ten of them are not here, because their calendars"); + println!(" could not be verified against anything published. Ask your parish"); + println!(" one question: is Pascha kept with Rome or with the local"); + println!(" Orthodox? The answer picks a reckoning above:\n"); + println!(" with Rome, fixed feasts on the civil calendar --calendar western"); + println!(" with the Orthodox, fixed feasts on the civil --calendar new"); + println!(" with the Orthodox, fixed feasts thirteen days --calendar old"); + println!(" behind\n"); + println!(" A patch adding your church, with a source for its calendar, is"); + println!(" welcome.\n"); } fn elide(text: &str, width: usize) -> String {