Workshop

Small, self-contained tools. Each one stands on its own and works without fuss.

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  Kalendar

  The Episcopal year, whole · 1979 Book of Common Prayer · readings in the King James Version

  A circular view of the church year, proportioned by actual day count — so Trinitytide visibly takes up half of it and Advent is a sliver. Click any day for its name, season, color and lectionary slot, with the collect, readings, psalms and Daily Office appointed for it.

• Today's Readings

  One day, set in type · 1979 Book of Common Prayer · Daily Office and Sunday lectionaries

  The same calendar as Kalendar, cut down to a single day. It gives you the date, the day's name and season, which lectionary years are running, and the psalms and readings appointed for the Daily Office. On a Sunday or a holy day it adds the readings for the Eucharist. Arrows step a day at a time and there is nothing else to click, which is what you want on a morning when you only need to know where to turn.

• The Collect Workshop

  How a collect is built · 1979 Book of Common Prayer · contemporary language

  A collect is a short prayer built out of five pieces. You name God, you say something already true about God, you ask for one thing, you say what it is for, and you end through Christ. This shows you those pieces in all 349 collects at once, color-coded, in both rites, and it will also list one piece on its own across the whole book. Every ascription together is a concordance of how the tradition names God. Every purpose clause together is a catalogue of what prayer is understood to be for. Then there is a second mode where you write one yourself. It asks for the petition first and sends you back for the ground it rests on, because that turn is what makes a wish into a collect. You can also open any collect on its own and just read it, and keep the ones you want to come back to in a collection of your own.

• Psalm Drone

  A tone to chant the Office over · Equal temperament, A440, with a ±50 cent trim

  A steady drone for singing the psalms over, up to six voices deep and tunable to the cent so it can meet an organ that is not quite at concert pitch. Pick the note the drone holds; pick the note you will chant the verses on; hear either of them before you begin, and sound the second one inside the drone if it helps you hold it. Space starts and stops it, the arrow keys move the pitch, and there is a sleep timer, because the point is to set it going and then have both hands free for the book.