Hymn loving? Non-lectionary user? Please help MJ - she'll greatly appreciate it.

On Vyrso, Logos offers Devotions for Advent: Meditations Based on Best-Loved Hymns. While I'd make some different choices for Advent hymns, this collection of 30 meditations provides a good opportunity to show some of the power (and shortcomings) of the Logos implementation of lectionaries.

Here is an example of a lectionary that will take you to the to the resource:

On the home page it appears as:

Unfortunately, this does not show the meditation link - the subject of a suggestion.

If you would please download this file, compile it as a PB with the type lectionary, give it the highest priority of your lectionaries, and then provide feedback re: usefulness, suggestions, objections ....

5282.Companion lectionary for Robert J Morgan.docx

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Rosie Perera

Nice, but I'm not sure what the usefulness is if I'm already using Devotions for Advent, as it doesn't provide any other info that isn't in the Robert Morgan book. As a non-lectionary user (or pretending to be one) I see a book as a standalone thing; I don't use it from the home page.

Now putting back on my "I know about lectionaries" hat: OK, I see the advantage now. It helps you link Devotions for Advent in to a reading-plan order of going through the book, one day at a time. I tried doing a Reading Plan to accomplish the same thing, and it doesn't work. This is the sort of thing that Logos ought to be able to automate, without one having to go to all the work to create a PB lectionary like you did. But great that you were able to and it works as expected. Now let's get on Logos's case to automate stuff like this.

MJ. Smith

Now let's get on Logos's case to automate stuff like this.

That's exactly where I want to get ... a bit of added value to the electronic form.

I tried doing a Reading Plan to accomplish the same thing, and it doesn't work.

If I were designing it, I'd raise the level of abstraction to make reading plans and lectionaries be variants of a single function.

Milford Charles Murray

Peace, Martha! Last night I bought the book from Vyrso and was going to set it up as you suggested...........

However, I realised that I would then lose my 3-year Lutheran Lectionary to which I refer just about each and every day.

I did make (actually maybe two years ago!) my own devotional called Holy Cross Devotions (!) that works perfectly .......

so ..... when you say you'll really appreciate it, then perhaps I should try to support you??? .... in other words, how much do you need input ....

(on a scale of 17 to 250!) *smile*

Edit: I just looked at your .docx file! It IS very, very well done, eh??? *smile*

Rosie Perera

However, I realised that I would then lose my 3-year Lutheran Lectionary to which I refer just about each and every day.

Milford, you wouldn't lose your lectionary. You just need to try it once to experiment with it, and then you can unprioritize Martha's PB and get back to the way you've been used to, with your lectionary showing up on your home page.

MJ. Smith

when you say you'll really appreciate it, then perhaps I should try to support you???

Actually you have already helped on 2 fronts:

a user needs the ability to use multiple lectionaries simultaneously (the denominational RCL plus a daily lectionary being the most obvious)
a user needs the ability to create devotionals which have a variety of specific needs for reuse

I'm trying to offer a broad enough use of lectionaries to get more people to think that they matter to them -- and that adding more canned reading plans to faithlife is not a solution but an admission of need.

Other goals:

unifying scripture reading/studying under a common function allow a religious education director to review the scripture study of all of the parish ... and identify what hasn't been covered
get more valued-added out of my electronic resources
building support for a reading plan/lectionary system that actually meets the needs of liturgy planners, religious education teachers, faith formation directors, daily preachers, and the average lay person
get those using lectionaries under other names to quit shuddering at the mention of the term "lectionary"

NB.Mick

If you would please download this file, compile it as a PB with the type lectionary, give it the highest priority of your lectionaries, and then provide feedback re: usefulness, suggestions, objections ....

MJ, this is great! I didn't know about the dtext field which displays a bible verse dynamically in the lectionary, even from different bibles, defaulting to the top priority bible.

I used your file as a template for something I had wanted to see in Logos for years: the moravian Daily Texts / Watchwords ("Losungen"). See attached a first test, covering some three weeks or so.

The only thing that bugs me a bit is that the verse references often are subverses (part a, or b, of a verse) and the PB compiler seems not to pick that up.

If somebody wants to check it out:

4263.Daily Texts lectionary.Test.docx

Resource picture and a text for the info field (both coming from Wikipedia) are in the resource. I intend to complete 2013 and build a file for 2014 in due course.