Deacon

Utility that fetches daily Orthodox readings and fasting information, supporting both Julian and Gregorian calendars, for interactive or automated use. This script essentially parses RSS feeds provided by https://orthocal.info.

Why did you make this?

I noticed there was no good (according to me) daily information software for Julian Calendar Orthodox Christians. It needs to be:

• minimal
• cli only (the most efficient computer interface)
• easy to use on android via termux or termux shortcuts
• have an offline cache
• support automatic and pager usage
• support both julian and gregorian calendars
• be public-domain and free
• be self contained in one file
• posix compliant, work everywhere

I have found no other alternative.

Deacon however is not meant to be a general purpose commandline bible, there are tools like diatheke, which do that job great enough.

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Try it!

sh <( curl -fsSL https://codeberg.org/knyz/deacon/raw/branch/master/deacon)

Download to ~/.local/bin/

Ensure $HOME/.local/bin/ is actually in your $PATH

cd ~/.local/bin/ && curl -OfsSL "https://codeberg.org/knyz/deacon/raw/branch/master/deacon" && chmod +x deacon

Usage

  -j - use julian/old calendar (default)
  -g - use gregorian/new calendar
  -i - interactive, uses PAGER to read text
  -s - status bar mode, outputs minimal information
  -h - display this information"
  -p - Use a prayer rule, which are plaintext files in ~/.local/share/vlmtools/prayers/

Examples

# Read the Julian calendar readings and fasting information interactively
deacon -ji

# Read the Gregorian calendar readings, outputting to stdout
deacon -g

# Pray a prayer rule called 'seraphim', and read the Julian calendar readings
# interactively

deacon -ji -p seraphim

Dependencies

• xmlstarlet
• curl
• w3m

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"LICENSE"

Public Domain CC0.