Order of Commemorations on Sunday

[Augustinus-Altovadensis]

Laudétur Jesus Christus!

I have a question about three distinct days and places in the code.
Everything will concern only Ordo Cisterciensis - Abbatia B.M.V. de Altovado.

1) 3rd May 2025: It's the second Vespers of Inventionis S. Crucis with the first Comm. of the Sunday, then first Vespers of S. Florian, S. Francis de Paula and S. Monica (in this order). The program however did some kind of Sunday flattening (or what) and the Sunday (rank=5) always ended up second after S. Florian (rank=3), however the Sunday should end up at about 3.5...

I "solved" it by adding following condition in orationes.pl, line 316, increasing the $key for the Altovadensis version from 2900 to 3000:

$keys = $cr[0] =~ /Vigilia Epi|$sundaystring/i
                  ? ($version =~ /altovadensis/i ? 3000 : 2900)
                  : $cr[2] * 1000;

That helped, but I'm not really happy with a solution, that simply changes a program I don't really understand...

2) 4th May 2025: It's the second Vespers of the Sunday with commemorated second Vespers from S. Florian (rank=3, i.e. first) and first Vespers of S. Sacerdos (rank=1.2, i.e. second). However, for some reason, the program has assigned a $key value of 10000 to S. Sacerdos, which puts it as a first commemoration, which is clearly wrong.

I "solved" it by decreasing the $key value of 10000 by one for the Cistercian version in orationes.pl, line 324, but that unfortunately broke (not only) the first issue described just above... So it's not a solution and I'm deleting it.

Any suggestions on how to solve this situation? @FAJ-Munich, I guess you designed this system, so you might know?

Thank you, God bless!

[FAJ-Munich]

In æternum!

What you are describing is stemming from the following changes made to the rubrics:

The 1951 rules work identical to the Roman Tridentine ones, i.e. Sunday commemorations come after duarum Missarum but before xij. Lect. et M.

With Divino Afflatu, there have been two major changes: Sunday commemorations are all privileged but that rule is trumped by the fact that the commemoration of the Concurrent Office always comes first no matter its rank.

To make Sunday commemorations also privileged for Altovadensis, you have to look for these kind of code lines:

my $key = ($ic =~ /$sundaystring/i)
            ? ($version !~ /trident/i ? 3000 : 7100)    # Sundays are all privilegde commemorations under DA
            : ($ic =~ /$octavestring/i) ? $ccind + 7900
            : $ccind + 9900;

And you need to assign the 3000 value to the Sunday for altovado as well.

[Augustinus-Altovadensis]

Very good, that's basically what I did. Thank you!

[FAJ-Munich]

The code does not put the concurrent office first for either 1951 or Altovadensis as the first condition in the following code junk is true:

if ( $version =~ /trident/i && $version !~ /1906/ ) {
            $keys = $cr[0] =~ /Vigilia Epi|$sundaystring/i
                  ? ($version =~ /altovadensis/i ? 3000 : 2900)
                  : $cr[2] * 1000;
          } else {
            $key = 9000;    # concurrent office comes first under DA and also 1906
          }

          $key = 10000 - $key;    # reverse order

The only way a key of 10000 is possible then if $cr[2] for some reason is zero or empty. It should contain the 1.2 from the rank hash in the Latin file 05-05C. Maybe this helps you narrow down the issue. Unfortunately, I can't run tests on it myself right now as I have just landed in Australia.

[Augustinus-Altovadensis]

It seems that the reason was very simple: the variable used here, is called $keys, however further on, the code counts only with a variable called $key. I have found a private variable called $keys further on line 515, but it isn't mentioned anywhere else, so I suppose this was just a typo. (and of course, after deleting the "s", the code works as it's supposed to)

Anyway, thanks for the big help and enjoy your stay Down Under!