proper calendars for religious orders (e.g. Dominicans)

[jhemak]

Would be great if this service could be configured to incorporate the calendar of a religious order such as the Dominicans. Have you considered this?

[JohnRDOrazio]

Hello @jhemak, yes I have been thinking about how to integrate calendars for Religious Orders that have an approved Proper Calendar. It will take some planning on how to go about doing this, since the Proper of Religious Orders (in my experience) adapts to the local "national" calendar of the nation in which they are present. So the calendar for the Dominicans in the United States will be in English and will also have the patron saints of the Americas and national celebrations such as Day of Prayer for the Unborn or Thanksgiving, whereas the calendar for the Dominicans in Italy will be in Italian and have the patron saints of Europe and of Italy.

Am I correct in this interpretation?

If this is the case, we could plan on Proper Calendars for Religous Orders listing the nations in which they are present, so as to integrate with those national / wider region calendars, and being translatable for the languages in those nations.

This will take some time and effort to accomplish. I've been working in the meantime at completely refactoring the API for better expected data structures and better API paths, and I still have quite a bit of work to do to finish this process (these changes will be released as v4 of the API). So perhaps integration of Proper Calendars for Religious Orders could be an idea for a v5 of the API.

[JohnRDOrazio]

to this end, it would also be useful to have a list of all Religious Orders that have an approved Proper Calendar, other than having the data for each of these calendars.
Do you have a copy of the Proper for the Dominicans that you can share?

[jhemak]

That's great. I am not an expert, but I believe you are correct.

Here is a link to the official calendar for the Dominicans, published in Latin in 2019:
https://www.op.org/calendar-ordinis-praedicatorum/

And here is the English version used in the USA (2nd link at this page):
https://dominicanvocations.com/news/calendarium-ordinis-praedicatorum

[JohnRDOrazio]

OP English Calendar 2019.pdf

[JohnRDOrazio]

Calendarium Ordinis Praedicatorum 2019.pdf