Description
The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. The dates of the festivals vary somewhat between the different churches, though the sequence and logic is largely the same. This module shows major events in the liturgical calendar in chronological order.
Usage
This module can be installed and configured in the administration back-end using the Module manager. Individual events can be shown or hidden separately (e.g. show Christmas and hide Ash Wednesday), with optionally displaying the exact date as well as the number of days since or until the event. The module lets you configure lookahead and lookbehind, i.e. the maximum number of days until an event to be shown and the maximum number of days to elapse before the event would be hidden.
There are two ways to use the module. Typically, you would simply assign the Liturgical year module to a regular template position already understood by the template you use, such as left or right, which would make it appear directly in the designated position. However, you can also embed the output of the module inside the text of an article, as illustrated by the sample output below. This is accomplished with the help of the Load module built-in Joomla extension using the syntax {loadposition modulename} where modulename is a custom name you have chosen for Position on the module configuration page (e.g. myposition). (See the example below for details. Novice users must pay attention to type the phrase for loadposition including the opening and closing braces and the chosen module name, and not copy and paste it from this text.)
Events available
You can check or uncheck each of the events below on the module configuration page.
Commonly observed
- Advent Sunday
- Advent (second Sunday)
- Advent (third Sunday)
- Advent (fourth Sunday)
- Christmas
- Christmas (second day)
- Epiphany
- Lent (first Sunday)
- Palm Sunday
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Easter Sunday
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Whit Monday
Catholic
Calvinist
Lutheran
Sample output
The example below illustrates the Liturgical year module when embedded directly in the text of an article with the help of the Load module extension using the syntax {loadposition liturgicalyear} where liturgicalyear is the custom name chosen for Position on the module configuration page.
Download
The liturgical year module is available for download under GNU/GPL at JoomlaCode.
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