Cornerstone
Episcopal, Anglican and Lutheran parishes that keep the calendar
Circuit
Benefices, circuits and groups of parishes sharing one ministry team
What it is
The only template of the ten built for more than one church. It solves the problem every benefice website has and almost none of them solve: a visitor cannot tell where this Sunday's service is, so they ring the vicar. Circuit works it out and puts the answer at the top of the front page.
Five churches, one website, and the problem every benefice has: which church has the service this Sunday. The rota engine works it out from ordinal week — first and third Sundays here, second and fourth there, and the fifth-Sunday rule that catches everyone — and each church still gets its own page with its own history and its own postcode.
What is in it
- The rota engine: first and third Sundays here, second and fourth there, and the fifth-Sunday rule that catches every hand-maintained rota out
- “Where to go on Sunday” — the answer, computed, before anything else on the page
- A page per church, each with its own history, its own postcode and its own photograph
- “The standing pattern, in full”, for the people who want the whole table rather than this week's answer
- “How a benefice works” — because most visitors have no idea what the word means
All 9 pages
Every one is written — there is no placeholder text in any of them. Click any page to open it in the live demo.
What to change first
The rota configuration. It is one block in the config file listing which church takes which weeks, and it is the thing the whole template is built around.
Questions about Circuit
We have three churches, not five.
The rota is a list; add or remove entries and the engine follows. Each church's page is a file — delete the ones you do not need and remove them from the navigation.
What is the fifth-Sunday rule?
Most benefice rotas are written as “first and third here, second and fourth there”, which silently has no answer for the four or five months a year with a fifth Sunday. The config lets you say what happens then — a united service somewhere, or one church keeping it — and the engine uses it.
