One comment: Don’t try to do everything with the CPH calendar. For example, you have national holidays such as Fourth of July and Lincoln’s birthday and also Hallmark holidays such as Mother’s Day on the CPH calendar. Most people who use Google calendar already subscribe to calendars that include those dates. By including those dates and others like them in your calendar you are cluttering up people’s calendars and they have multiple calendars telling them that it is Mother’s Day (of course some people might like the extra reminder for that date). Otherwise, this is a great resource. Thanks for the hard work of all the people at CPH.

I just wanted to mention briefly—as I’m sure the question will arise at some point—that we will be making some documentation available to help people “subscribe” to this calendar in Outlook or iCal.
Also, once we’re certain we have the best file available we’ll make downloadable iCalendar (.ics) files available for you to download and import into your calendar program if you would prefer.
As Pr. McCain said, please leave a comment here if you have a suggestion on how to improve the calendar.

I like this. Thank you.

Hi, Paul! While the digital calendar is a good idea, I’ve never mastered it and love the small paper calendar that fits in my pocket. The only problem with the paper one is that it wears out in about October or so.
My bride, on the other hand, would probably eat this up – she’s an electronic and PDA junkie.
God bless!
Kevin

Just set mine up and was able to remove 4 other calendars that I had been using. Thanks.

Paul, I think this is a great idea. I have been using electronic calendars for 3 years and I love them. I loose paper ones, but since I spent $400 for a PDA I do not loose that. An outlook form would be great, if that is possible

I’ll ask the obligatory question. One year version?

Paul and the CPH crew,
Thanks for thinking about those of us who are gadget geeks. I have not used the paper version for almost a decade, it goes directly to the church secretary who lives by it. I have wished for years for this resource in electonic form. I am a Outlook user, so I will be anxious to see when that come on line.
Once again thanks for being attuned to the needs of the whole church. God bless and keep up the great work.

Thanks, Paul, for this resource. I am setting up a mobile desktop on my new ASUS laptop. This calendar will practically eliminate the need for the paper one. As indcated by a previous post, it would be nice to sync with Windows Outlook and/or Franklin Covey software. It would also be nice to see the readings in the LW 3 year series and the historical 1 year series.
Yours in Christ,
Pr. Lee Kunkel

I like that fact that I can pick and choose which events to import into the church Google calendar. A click or two and the event is imported. NO retyping! Just log into your calendar from another Browser tab and the entry goes in. I have only waited about 10 years for CPH to catch up on this having abandoned the CPH and Thrivent calendars for my PDA years ago… Thanks Paul!

Let this be another vote for a version of this for MS Outlook. An easy way to get it for Outlook would be great.

Looks good. Would this be avaiable in a Palm OS? I have a Tungsten E2.

I just wanted to answer some of the questions you’ve all raised here:

“One year version?”

I don’t know yet.

“As indicated by a previous post, it would be nice to sync with Windows Outlook and/or Franklin Covey software.”

I’ll be working on documentation early this week to demonstrate how to “subscribe” to the calendar in Outlook and iCal. With a few settings, you can set up your version of Outlook or iCal to connect to the calendar over the Internet and automatically retrieve changes on a regular basis. This would (among other things) mean that you would not need to re-download the calendar each year. I don’t know enough about the Covey software to say anything—but see below for more on that.

“Would this be avaiable in a Palm OS? I have a Tungsten E2.”

As above with the Covey software, I don’t know. I chose Google Calendar as a base because it offered the least duplication of effort to get it working for the greatest number of people. Check with either Palm Desktop or the Covey software and see if they can import iCalendar files (they end in .ics). There will be a downloadable .ics file made available after a few final tweaks to the calendar.
I’m also pretty sure Palms can be made to sync automatically to Outlook—you could look into that as well.
Thanks for the response and the interest in this method of receiving the Pocket Diary – I’ve enjoyed working on it and am happy to get it out. Keep the comments coming.

Great! Let’s get the Hymn of the Day up there, too.

Looks pretty good. Gee, Ryan – wherever did you get the idea?!?
Two things that would be nice, just to round out the information and would especially be helpful with the festivals and commemorations – could you put the color of the day and which Proper Preface to use?
Also, I could do without the little CPH reminders. (Sorry! But if we have to have it to pay the piper, then so be it.)
And finally, one thing from the Thrivent Calendar that would be nice, for those of us that don’t subscribe to other calendars that might have these on there – Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four. I’m a baseball guy and barely have a clue as to when the other sports have their championships. (March Madness extends into April? Huh?) This effects planning of other meetings outside of worship and would be nice to have.

I too would love to see this in a MS Outlook format, as I use outlook exclusively for my calendar program. Thank you for all your hard work at CPH.

I know that Augsburg Fortress has their Pocket Diary equivalent available in Palm OS format. I looked at it for 2008 and it’s really not all that bad. Would it be too difficult to make the entire Pocket Diary with 3-yr Lectionary available in OS format? Just a thought. It looks like others have that thought here as well.

Lalala! This is exactly what I love — technology that gives me what I would have if I could hold books!
(Now if I could get some good, hard-core, 100 proof, gospel centered, Lutheran theology books at audible.com ! For that matter, I’d even be willing to purchase Amazon’s Kindle if I could read books like Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church. By David P. Scaer.)

I use a Tungsten T3, and the accompanying Palm Desktop software for my calender/addressbook needs. Don’t have Outlook. I don’t use Google Calender. I would love to be able to sync a good liturgical calender in to my Palm, and be able to have the pericopes linked to a free Bible app, like Olive Tree. CPH would be doing us Palm users a great service if you could make that happen.

Where’s the link to subscribe via iCal? Mich want to put this up at http://www.icalshare.com/

Great stuff! Once again just what I’ve been waiting for.
A few comments to echo some of what other reviewers have already stated.
Please stick to just the liturgical events. As a Canadian pastor the US national holidays, tax reminders etc. just clutter up my calendar. Same goes for Hallmark holidays. If the CPH reminders are the price we must pay for receiving this resource than so be it but I’d rather they be omitted or at least kept to a minimum.
Please include the readings for the Sundays. I find it useful to have this information in as many places as possible (Service Builder, Logos Lectionary Viewer, & calendar).
For the Sundays it would be helpful to either remove the [Sunday] tag or have it come after. The [Sunday] tag takes up all the available viewing space thus necessitating a click on the event to see what Sunday it actually is. This is fine for the festivals and commemorations but for the Sundays it’s annoying – I already know it’s a Sunday.
In any case thanks for making this available.

Thia ia great. One suggestions, use abbreviations for Feasts, Commerations,and Sundays (like simply F, C, and S) or put it at the end of the title. In the Month view, the title (esp Commemeration) is so long it’s all you see.
Ex — [C] John of Damascus or [F] St. Andrew
You probably don’t even need to include [Sunday] as that is more or less self-vident.