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[chronarchy]

I've been playing with an idea that sleepingwolf gave me: Visual Liturgy.

It's a program (with several sister programs) developed by the Anglican Communion for liturgical work. Basically, you start with the basic Order of Services, and then you kinda pick your sermons, bible readings, prayers, hymns. . . everythingI imagine that extensive use of such a

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[heimskringla]

The whole point to liturgy, from the Christian perspective, is that there's no need to constantly tinker. The liturgy of the Church has a set form with some accepted variations. The readings change every week, the sermon and the hymns too, but not much else. The liturgy evolved as an expression of the community, a product of a whole and not a part of a whole, so for there to be a lot of creativity on the priest's part runs counter to the communal purpose and nature of the liturgy.

The priest acts in locus Christi during the liturgy, not as himself. A priest is free to get creative with the homily and the music, but most everything else is fairly fixed.

VL, and software like it for other denominations, just alleviates the need for lots of book and paper shuffling. The readings are going to be John 5:10-25 and I Timothy 6:6 if it's day X of year Y no matter what, unless it happens to be the feast of Z, in which case the readings for Z take precedence over XY.

As a member of ADF, and a priest for your people whether you acknowledge it or not, you've a lot more freedom to innovate liturgically than the majority of Christian priests.

That was probably a bit ranty.

I think it would be neat to see an application in the vein of VL for ADF, and you've got a larger set of literature and custom to draw from than the Anglicans. I'd suggest writing a basic application which accepted hearth culture specific modules; the modules could be tagged with XML to make them a little easier for the non-geek to write and plug in to the application.