on the daily readings

[gzt]

While I've discovered such services as the DYNAMIS list, I was wondering whether there was any service which sends the daily readings themselves to my inbox [or, at least, has them on an RSS feed or something]. It's much easier to just passively receive them, you know, than to look them up and find them, or to go to [viz] the OCA page and get them actively. So, anything?

[eoe]

Get Ready For The Hookup!

Here we go... Click HERE (http://goarch.org/en/chapel/index.asp?D=7/19/2006&T=10) scroll down ot the bottom of the page and subsribe to the email broadcast. Then Click HERE (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/)and download the flavor of Juice that is right for your OS. After Juice is installed click HERE (http://www.annunciationakron.org/podcast/)and follow the instructions for setting up the podcast. Bingo - you get the daily readings emailed and then read to you with some lovely singing in the background.

[Nickolai]

Get Ready For The Hookup!

Here we go... Click HERE (http://goarch.org/en/chapel/index.asp?D=7/19/2006&T=10) scroll down ot the bottom of the page and subsribe to the email broadcast. Then Click HERE (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/)and download the flavor of Juice that is right for your OS. After Juice is installed click HERE (http://www.annunciationakron.org/podcast/)and follow the instructions for setting up the podcast. Bingo - you get the daily readings emailed and then read to you with some lovely singing in the background.

That guy's voice puts me to sleep.

[Oblio]

On a related note, anyone know of a automated way to get the reading or the day, or lives of the Saints dynamically into a webpage. I know of a site that will give you an icon image, but I haven't been able to crack the OCA code to get Scripture/Hagiography.

[Nickolai]

On a related note, anyone know of a automated way to get the reading or the day, or lives of the Saints dynamically into a webpage. I know of a site that will give you an icon image, but I haven't been able to crack the OCA code to get Scripture/Hagiography.

I tried to figure out a way to do this too one time. I came to the conclusion that it's really hard to do. You would have to code all of the readings in, and then somehow get the browser to get the code for the date of the computer looking at the page (there is a Javascript code for that, but I don't know how to make it do anything with it). Then make it post the readings for the date that the earlier code grabbed. Really complicated for me, since I dropped out of my Computer Science major before I learned how to do stuff like that.

Reader Nikolai

[DonVA]

This church sends out daily readings.

http://www.annunciation.va.goarch.org/

[Oblio]

If I just knew the php format for the script that extracts the readings, and the script url, all would be fine, but OCA seems to have hidden all that within a script on the page that gets the data and prints it. Some of their source file names are obviously hashed numbers that make little sense (rather than say a format of mmdd, or ddd ) :sigh:

[kamikat]

you can subscribe to the Annunciation podcast through iTunes. It's called "the Orthodox Word Podcast". I go through periods when I subscribe, then unsubscribe. I like getting the daily hymns and saints info, but I get more out of the readings when I read them myself vs listening to them

kamikat

[Vasileios]

Perhaps someone should contact OCA and ask permission (and a blessing wouldnt hurt! ;) ) to have access to the script that they use to extract the readings. I'm guesing it is a txt file managed in a MySQL database or something? If you can only gain access to that database (through the same script though, not directly) I don't think it would be a major security hazard, then again I am an interface designer and network administration and database security are not my highpoints :P

*hoping I am being remotely relevant*

[Oblio]

I've had enough troubles getting them to accurately update the national website with our parish data, plus they are absolutely anal in the process, akin to a large corporation or goverment. Add to this the fact that they contracted the national website to be rebuilt awhile back at who knows what cost, while they struggle to make payroll and want ever increasing 'contributions' from parishes :doh: Yet we still cannot get decent Liturgical texts :doh: :doh:

[Vasileios]

oops then :P

[Oblio]

Oh, I didn't mean to offend Vasilli, you actually have a good idea which I had entertained, it's just my absolute frustration with the national Church wells up whenever I think of them :)

[Vasileios]

I know, I wasn't offended. :)

It was more like "oops, circumstances I had no idea about" :P

Glad it was a good idea, I still entertain an inferiority complex towards my colleagues who do a masters in programming or networks as I have forgotten most of the stuff I've learnt :P

[rusmeister]

I have a major problem on the daily readings, what saints are remembered and calendat stuff.
I live in Russia, and want to worship in English. My Russian is good, my OCS (Old Church Slavonic) is so-so - I actually participated in one of those round-the clock readings for the dead - one whole hour of reading the Psalms in OCS; it was killer!
Anyway, I'd love to have stuff that coincides with my local Moscow Patriarchate calendar in English. It's a big disincentive to read in OCS, and the OCA stuff is great, but not in synch - I look at their "Today's saints", troparia, etc. but it ain't what's being remembered around here.
:help:

Edit/update: For the record, OCS is more distant from modern Russian than King James' English is from ours.

[Nickolai]

I've had enough troubles getting them to accurately update the national website with our parish data, plus they are absolutely anal in the process, akin to a large corporation or goverment. Add to this the fact that they contracted the national website to be rebuilt awhile back at who knows what cost, while they struggle to make payroll and want ever increasing 'contributions' from parishes :doh: Yet we still cannot get decent Liturgical texts :doh: :doh:

Yes, the liturgical texts are neither decent or consistant.

Reader Nikolai

[Oblio]

rus,

ISTM that Iacobus over at Ancient Church (http://www.evlogeite.com/) had a OC Horologion on his blog at one time. Either PM him here or via his blog for help.

[rusmeister]

rus,

ISTM that Iacobus over at Ancient Church (http://www.evlogeite.com/) had a OC Horologion on his blog at one time. Either PM him here or via his blog for help.

Thanks, Oblio!
I'll give it a shot!