Date::Lectionary::Daily - Daily Readings for the Christian Lectionary

# VERSION

Version 1.20180422

# SYNOPSIS

    use Time::Piece;
    use Date::Lectionary::Daily;

    #Using the old ACNA Liturgical Daily Lectionary
    my $dailyReading = Date::Lectionary::Daily->new(
        'date' => Time::Piece->strptime("2017-12-24", "%Y-%m-%d"), 
        'lectionary' => 'acna-xian'
    );
    say $dailyReading->readings->{evening}->{1}; #First lesson for evening prayer, Isaiah 51

    #Using the new ACNA Secular/Civil Daily Lectionary
    my $dailyNewReading = Date::Lectionary::Daily->new( 
        'date' => Time::Piece->strptime( "2018-03-12", "%Y-%m-%d" ), 
        'lectionary' => 'acna-sec' 
    );
    say $dailyNewReading->readings->{morning}->{2}; #Second lesson for morning prayer, Matthew 5

# DESCRIPTION

Date::Lectionary::Daily takes a Time::Piece date and returns readings for morning and evening prayer for that date.

## CONSTRUCTOR ATTRIBUTES

### date

The Time::Piece object date of the day you woudl like the lessons for.

### lectionary

One of two choices \`acna-sec\` for the new secular calendar based ACNA daily lectionary or \`acna-xian\` for the previous liturgically-based ACNA daily lectionary.

If lectionary is not given at construction, the ACNA secular daily lectionary — \`acna-sec\` — will be used.

## ATTRIBUTES

### week

The name of the liturgical week in the lectionary; e.g. \`The First Sunday in Lent\`.

### day

The name of the day of the week; e.g. \`Sunday\`.

### tradition

Presently only returns \`acna\`.  Future version of the module may include daily lectionary from other traditions.

### type

Returns \`secular\` for daily lectionaries based on the secular/civil calendar and \`liturgical\` for daily lectionaries based on the liturgical calendar.

### readings

A hasref of the readings for the day.

# SUBROUTINES/METHODS

## BUILD

Constructor for the Date::Lectionary object.  Takes a Time::Piect object, `date`, to create the object.

## \_buildType

Private method to determine if the daily lectionary follows the secular calendar or the liturgical calendar.

## \_buildTradition

Private method to determine the Sunday lectionary tradition of the daily lectionary selected. Used to determine the liturgical week the day falls within.

## \_parseLectDB

Private method to open and parse the lectionary XML to be used by other methods to XPATH queries.

## \_checkFixed

Private method to determine if the day given is a fixed holiday rather than a standard day.

## \_buildReadingsLiturgical

Private method that returns an ArrayRef of strings for the lectionary readings associated with the date according to the liturgical calendar.

## \_buildReadingsSecular

Private method that returns an ArrayRef of strings for the lectionary readings associated with the date according to the secular calendar.

# AUTHOR

Michael Wayne Arnold, `<michael at rnold.info>`

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Please report any bugs or feature requests to `bug-date-lectionary-daily at rt.cpan.org`, or through
the web interface at [http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Date-Lectionary-Daily](http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Date-Lectionary-Daily).  I will be notified, and then you'll
automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

# SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Date::Lectionary::Daily

You can also look for information at:

- RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)

    [http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Date-Lectionary-Daily](http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Date-Lectionary-Daily)

- AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

    [http://annocpan.org/dist/Date-Lectionary-Daily](http://annocpan.org/dist/Date-Lectionary-Daily)

- CPAN Ratings

    [http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Date-Lectionary-Daily](http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Date-Lectionary-Daily)

- Search CPAN

    [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Lectionary-Daily/](http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Lectionary-Daily/)

# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to my beautiful wife, Jennifer, my amazing daughter, Rosemary, and my sweet son, Oliver.  But, above all, SOLI DEO GLORIA!

# LICENSE

Copyright 2017-2018 MICHAEL WAYNE ARNOLD

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