Happy New Year to Visual Liturgy users! We have prepared an update mainly for Daily Prayer but recommended for all. To get the update, choose Online Update from the Edit menu in the top bar, and tick and download the Software update and the Calendar update (subscribers only).
When we prepared this calendar update we noticed and corrected a problem which has existed in Visual Liturgy for many years. In the book Calendar, Lectionary and Collects, most events have readings for the Principal Service, Second Service and Third Service. However, Holy Days have readings for the Principal Service, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. This was originally entered in Visual Liturgy so that Morning Prayer maps to the Second Service and Evening Prayer to the Third Service. This is incorrect, and the Second Service should map to Evening Prayer, Third Service to Morning Prayer.
There is no problem with using Third Service readings for Evening Prayer or vice versa; it is a free and valid choice. However, this did cause problems for the Daily Prayer lectionary on Holy Days and Eves, especially on Eves where there is no Third Service provision. We have now corrected this. This will not affect you, unless you have custom service templates which assume the incorrect entries in Visual Liturgy’s calendar. If this is the case, you just need to amend them so that Evening Prayer uses the Second Service readings.