Readings at a glance (AI summaries)

Readings at a glance is a short, faithful summary of the day's Mass readings, shown on Today and on each day in Liturgy. It is a quick orientation for planning a homily, a bulletin note, or a school visit.

What it shows

• A one-line theme.
• A sentence each on the first reading, the psalm, the gospel (and the second reading on Sundays).
• An overall line tying them together, weaving in the saint on a memorial or feast.

Where it comes from

• The summary is generated for the day and then kept, so it loads instantly afterward.
• Links to the full readings are provided for your own reading.
• If the summary cannot be produced, the card simply does not appear — nothing breaks.
• When the parish records the day's optional memorial and that saint has proper readings printed, the glance is rebuilt from those passages — it works from the citations rather than the ferial text — and is served in place of the ferial summary. Unselect the memorial and the day falls back to the ferial glance, which is still cached and returns at once. See Choosing the day's optional memorial.

Tips

• It is a starting point, not a substitute for the text — the full readings are one click away.
• Summaries are part of Vianney's AI features; see AI in Vianney for how that works and what it costs.
• A parish can switch this helper off in Settings → AI add-on (Readings at a Glance); the card simply stops appearing, just as if no summary could be produced.