Recording which readings you chose

On some days the lectionary offers a choice — a long form and a short form, an alternate psalm, a set of options for a vigil. Vianney does not choose for you. It lets you write down what your parish actually took, so the lector, the cantor and next year's secretary all read the same page.

Record the choices for a Mass

• 1. Open Liturgy → Look Ahead and click the day.
• 2. Under Masses & intentions, a Mass with options says Reading options this Mass. Click record the choices.
• 3. Work down the rows — OT, Psalm, Epistle, Alleluia/Tract, Gospel — picking from what the book prints. Choose Other… on any row to type something the list does not carry.
• 4. Use the box at the foot for anything else about that Mass: the procession, a sequence, a blessing.
• 5. Click Save choices.

Where the day matches more than one entry in your parish's catalog, a dropdown at the top lets you say which one you are recording against.

Every Mass gets its own answer

Choices belong to one Mass, not to the day. The 4pm on Christmas Eve and the 10pm can legitimately take different readings, and Vianney records them separately rather than making the two agree.

What you see afterwards

• The Mass shows a one-line summary — Readings · OT … · Psalm … · Gospel … — with an Edit link and the name of whoever recorded it.
• Clear removes the record for that Mass; the options line comes back so you can start again.
• Each row shows Last time: underneath — what your parish chose the last time this liturgy came round, or the reference from your catalog until there is real history to draw on.

Good to know

• Nothing is chosen for you. Where nothing has been recorded yet, the first printed option starts selected simply as a sensible place to begin; saving records what you actually picked.
• Any staff member with Liturgy access can record choices, and every save is written to the audit trail.
• Saving replaces the whole record for that Mass, so the latest save is always the truth.
• The list of option days is your parish's own — a setting, not something baked into the software.