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Closes #973. Evidence and sources are collected in this comment on the issue.

The issue is framed two ways round

The dual form is Vulgate (Hebrew), not the reverse. Croatian settles it: hr.json never uses the dual form, and wherever en.json wrote one, the number hr writes bare is the parenthesised one. So Psalm 45 (46) is Vulgate 45 / Hebrew 46 (Deus noster refugium), and it collided with the Assumption's Psalm 45:10…, which is Hebrew 45 (Audi filia) — two different psalms behind one leading number.

And the corpus was not split between two conventions. It stored one numbering across six files needing four different renderings, because each locale's own liturgical books number the Psalter differently:

locale form authority
la bare Vulgate Lectionarium pro Missis de BMV (1987), iBreviary
it Vulgate (Hebrew) CEI
fr Vulgate (Hebrew) AELF
en bare Hebrew USCCB
hr bare Hebrew corpus-internal consistency only
nl Hebrew (Vulgate) Nederlands Lectionarium deel IV

The parenthetical is omitted where the numberings coincide (Hebrew 1–8, 148–150); CEI prints a bare Sal 5 for 7 September 2026, confirming the rule.

The "dual where whole-psalm, single where versed" hypothesis in the issue does not hold either: in sanctorum there were 83 whole-psalm citations, 72 bare and 11 dual — the 11 were stragglers, not a convention.

la.json turned out furthest from its own book: its Psalmo 89 for St Joseph was Hebrew 89, where the Latin lectionary prints Ps 88.

What changed

468 citations across four locales. hr.json is untouched.

locale citations change
en 405 stripped 20 duals, keeping the Hebrew member
it 130 glossed all but aligned psalms
fr 130 glossed all but aligned psalms
la 130 renumbered to bare Vulgate
nl 130 converted to Psalm H (V)
hr 137 none

nl was not in the original plan for this PR — it was deferred to the Dutch PR (#972). But this PR is also what introduces the lectionary_psalms_lint CI job, and 128 of the 468 violations were nl, so deferring them would have merged a PR whose own new check was red. Only nl's psalm citations changed here; its book names remain Latin for #972 to convert.

Two data defects found along the way

en.json held Vulgate numbers at three leaves. JesusChristEternalHighPriest, years A/B/C, carried Psalm 39, 109, 22 where hr has 40, 110, 23. The texts identify themselves: Ps 39:7-8 "Here I am, I come to do your will" is Vulgate (Hebrew 40:7-8); Ps 109:1 "The Lord said to my Lord" is Vulgate (Hebrew 110:1); Ps 22:2-3 "green pastures" is Vulgate (Hebrew 23:2-3). Corrected. This mattered beyond the three leaves, because the lint validates la against en's Hebrew values — converting on top of a wrong oracle would have moved four locales onto the wrong psalm.

The Easter Vigil's seventh psalm is two psalms, written as one string: Hebrew 42:3,5;43:3,4. The first pass converted the prefixed reference and left the un-prefixed continuation at its Hebrew value, so la briefly read Psalmo 41:3,5;43:3,4 — in a bare-Vulgate file that trailing 43 names Hebrew 44 (Deus, auribus nostris) rather than Hebrew 43 (Iudica me, Deus). Nine leaves, caught in review and fixed.

The lint

composer lint:lectionary-psalms, wired into CI as lectionary_psalms_lint, with the convention table, its sources and the Hebrew→Vulgate mapping documented in jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md.

Three properties are deliberate, each closing a way the check could have reported an untruth:

  • It recognises every psalm prefix, then checks it against the locale's. Matching only the locale's own prefix would leave it blind where it is most needed: while nl.json held Latin, an nl-only matcher found one citation and passed. It now reports a Latin citation in a Dutch file as the defect it is.
  • The prefixes overlap, so the match consumes the whole prefix. Ps is a prefix of Psalm, Psaume and Psalmo; Psalm is a prefix of Psalmo. PCRE alternation is leftmost-first, so a naive pattern reads Psalmo 71 as Psalm and calls Latin Dutch. Psalmus is recognised as known-but-never-valid — it is the correct Latin nominative and the Nova Vulgata prints PSALMUS 139 (138), so its reintroduction is likely rather than exotic. Four citations spelled that way had been invisible.
  • ;-joined continuation references are validated too — 20 of them — since that is exactly the shape that produced the Easter Vigil defect above.

Each has a self-test that was verified to fail when its rule is relaxed, not merely to exist.

Verification

  • composer lint:lectionary-psalms — 1062 citations plus 20 continuations across 10 sections, exit 0
  • composer lint:jsondata — canonical encoding preserved, no \uXXXX
  • composer lint:md, phpcs, vendor/bin/phpunit phpunit_tests/LectionaryCorpusTest.php — green
  • Only psalm-bearing fields moved: a git diff filtered to non-psalm keys is empty across the whole change
  • All 403 converted leaves were re-derived independently from hr through the mapping table during review — zero numbering errors, zero swapped gloss orders

Known follow-ups, deliberately not in this PR

  • Two pre-existing reading-level defects found and documented in the corpus README: dominicale_et_festivum_C/fr.json year-C row duplicates its year-B row, and feriale_tempus_nativitatis/en.json ChristmasWeekdayJan5 holds another day's readings. Fixing them would have put non-psalm fields in this diff.
  • Salmo 147 (147) is a redundant gloss the current rule demands; CEI prints a bare Sal 147. The cleaner rule is "gloss iff the two numbers differ", which subsumes the aligned ranges — a change to lint and data together, so not made here.
  • hr remains verified only by corpus-internal consistency; the Croatian conference's sites were unreachable.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected responsorial psalm and Gospel acclamation references across Roman lectionary readings.
    • Standardised psalm numbering, alternate-number formatting, names and citation punctuation across supported languages and celebrations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on Roman lectionary psalm numbering conventions, locale formats and known data considerations.
  • Quality Improvements

    • Added automated validation to detect malformed or inconsistently numbered psalm references before release.

JohnRDOrazio and others added 3 commits September 3, 2026 17:50
Adds `composer lint:lectionary-psalms` (scripts/lint-lectionary-psalms.php),
a CI gate for the six-way psalm numbering convention documented in the new
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md: the Psalter is numbered
two incompatible ways (Hebrew/Masoretic and Greek/Vulgate), and a citation in
the wrong numbering names a DIFFERENT psalm, not a differently-formatted one.
Nothing else in CI can see this — schema validation only checks that a
string is a string, and #969's key-set comparison agrees perfectly across
six files holding six different psalms under the same key.

The lint recognises all five psalm prefixes the corpus uses (Psalm, Salmo,
Psalmo, Psaume, Ps) in every locale's file, not just that locale's own
prefix, so a locale that still holds another locale's numbering (as
nl.json does today) is caught rather than silently passing having checked
nothing (#822, #833, #834, #835). The regex is ordered longest-prefix-first
to avoid the leftmost-first PCRE trap where `Psalmo 71` would otherwise
read as `Psalm` and misclassify a Latin citation as Dutch; a standing
self-test proves all five prefixes resolve to themselves before any corpus
data is read. `la` is the one locale whose citation carries a single bare
number with nothing to self-validate against, so its number is cross-checked
against en.json's Hebrew value (via the Hebrew -> Vulgate mapping table) for
the same citation; Ps 116 and Ps 147 are skipped from that check, and from
the it/fr/nl dual-citation pair check, when no verse number disambiguates
their verse-dependent split, with the skip count reported so it stays
visible.

This lint is RED at this commit, by design: it only adds the gate, and the
current corpus fails it (checked 1058 citations across 10 sections):
  en=20, hr=0, it=102, fr=102, nl=128, la=116 violations (3 skipped).
hr's 0 confirms the matcher is sound (hr is meant to be already conformant).
A later commit (#973's data fix) is what turns this lint green.

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…#973)

The corpus was not split between two numbering systems; it stored ONE
numbering (Hebrew/Masoretic) across six files that need three different
renderings, and the dual form used by the books is `Vulgate (Hebrew)`,
not the reverse. This applies the per-locale convention recorded in
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md and takes
`composer lint:lectionary-psalms` from 468 violations to 0.

  en  bare Hebrew        20 duals stripped to their PARENTHESISED number
  hr  bare Hebrew        untouched
  it  Salmo V (H)        102 citations glossed
  fr  Psaume V (H)       102 citations glossed
  la  bare Vulgate       117 citations renumbered to Vulgate
  nl  Psalm H (V)        130 citations moved off Latin onto the Dutch form

Psalms 1-8 and 148-150 take no gloss: the two systems coincide there.

The Latin change is the load-bearing one and rests on the 1987 Latin
lectionary printing bare Vulgate numbers, proven by its incipits (see
the README table).

Three whole-psalm `Ps 147` citations in feriale_tempus_nativitatis could
not be mapped from the number alone, since Hebrew 147 splits into
Vulgate 146 (vv. 1-11) and 147 (vv. 12-20). All three were resolved to
Vulgate 147 from printed lectionaries — AELF 2024-01-06 and 2025-01-10
print `Ps 147 (147b), 12-13, 14-15, 19-20`, and CEI 2025-01-11 prints
`Dal Sal 147` over *Celebra il Signore, Gerusalemme* (Lauda, Ierusalem).
No lint exception was needed.

Two corrections the conversion could not have been done without:

* `en` held VULGATE numbers at JesusChristEternalHighPriest in all three
  years (39/109/22 against hr's 40/110/23). The England & Wales Liturgy
  Office lectionary for the feast prints `Psalm 40(39)`, `Psalm 110(109)`
  and `Psalm 23 (22)`, so hr was right. This is not cosmetic: `en` is the
  Hebrew oracle the lint checks `la` against, so converting on top of it
  would have moved four locales onto the wrong psalm. `en` now carries
  40, 110 and 23; verse ranges are untouched.

* Four citations were spelled `Psalmus`, which the lint's regex does not
  recognise (`Psalm\s+` does not match `Psalmus`), so they were invisible
  to it — hence the baseline counts of nl=128 la=128 for corpora of 130.
  They now use their locale's own prefix. The regex gap itself is left
  open work, recorded in the README.

Also: sanctorum/en.json StJoseph gospel_acclamation `Psalm 84,5` ->
`Psalm 84:5`, the one comma-style stray in a colon-style file.

Two pre-existing reading-level defects were found and deliberately NOT
fixed here, since they are not numbering defects: fr's year C row for
JesusChristEternalHighPriest is a verbatim duplicate of its own year B
row, and en's ChristmasWeekdayJan5 row holds a different day's readings
than every other locale. Both are described in the README.

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…lint see them (#973)

Review fix round 1. Four items.

1. A `;`-joined CONTINUATION reference was left unconverted in nine
   leaves. The Easter Vigil's seventh psalm is two psalms in one
   citation and only the first carries a prefix — Hebrew
   `Psalm 42:3,5;43:3,4`. The conversion pass read the leading reference
   and stopped, so `la` shipped `Psalmo 41:3,5;43:3,4`, where the bare
   `43` in a bare-Vulgate file names Hebrew 44 (Deus, auribus nostris)
   instead of Hebrew 43 (Iudica me, Deus). Same in `it` and `fr`.

     la  Psalmo 41:3,5;42:3,4
     it  Salmo 41 (42), 3.5;42 (43), 3.4
     fr  Psaume 41 (42):3,5;42 (43):3,4

   Three sections each. A corpus-wide sweep for `;` inside a psalm
   citation found no other instance in a converted locale; the only
   other two are `en`-only and already correct as bare Hebrew.

2. `nl`'s continuation was missing its gloss (its bare `43` happened to
   name the right psalm, `nl` being Hebrew-first, so this was a
   convention defect rather than a wrong psalm):
   `Psalm 42 (41):3,5;43 (42):3,4`.

3. Both lint blind spots closed, each with a self-test case:

   * `Psalmus` is now RECOGNISED — not as a valid prefix, but so that a
     citation spelled that way is reported as a prefix no locale allows
     instead of passing unseen. `Psalm\s+` does not match `Psalmus`, so
     four such citations were invisible and the per-locale counts read
     128 for corpora of 130. It is the Latin nominative and the form the
     Nova Vulgata prints, so reintroduction is likely, not exotic.

   * A citation is now split into its leading reference plus every
     `;`-joined continuation, and each is checked under the same locale
     rule — for `la`, against that continuation's own counterpart in
     `en` (the ground-truth key gained a reference index), not against
     the leading one. FULL validation rather than fail-closed-only: the
     shape is small and closed (optional prefix, number, optional gloss,
     verses), so there was no reason to settle for less. Anything after
     a `;` that cannot be read as a psalm reference IS failed closed —
     only values that begin with a psalm citation reach the parser, so
     `John 1:7; Luke 1:17` is never examined. The summary line now
     reports the continuation count for the same reason it reports
     per-locale counts.

   Each self-test case was mutation-checked: dropping `Psalmus` from the
   regex, removing continuation parsing, and turning the fail-closed
   branch into a skip each make the run abort with a distinct INTERNAL
   ERROR. Two data-level mutations were checked too — reverting `la`'s
   continuation to `43` is reported as "bare number 43 is not the
   Vulgate equivalent of Hebrew 43 (expected 42)", and a reintroduced
   `Psalmus` as a prefix mismatch.

4. The README no longer asserts the print ORDER of the England & Wales
   lectionary's citations for JesusChristEternalHighPriest. It gives the
   PAIRS (40/39, 110/109, 23/22), which is what the conclusion actually
   rests on, quotes the PDF's strings as extracted, and records that
   other England & Wales material prints the same pairs the other way
   round (Universalis `Psalm 23(24)`; CJM "Psalm 22" for this feast's
   year C) — so nothing here is evidence of a house order.

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The change standardises Roman lectionary psalm references across locales, documents numbering rules, adds a PHP lint command, and runs that command in CI.

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Lectionary Psalm Numbering

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Numbering rules and lint implementation
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md, scripts/lint-lectionary-psalms.php
Documents locale-specific numbering rules and validates prefixes, continuations, mappings, verse-sensitive exceptions, range limits, and cross-locale consistency.
Dominical and seasonal citation updates
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/dominicale_et_festivum_*/, jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/feriale_tempus_nativitatis/
Updates responsorial psalm references to the specified locale formats, including alternate numbers, corrected English citations, and continuation references.
Sanctorum citation updates
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/
Normalises responsorial psalm and gospel acclamation references across the locale files.
Composer and CI validation wiring
composer.json, .github/workflows/main.yml
Adds lint:lectionary-psalms and runs it in a read-only workflow job after build.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f3a31

Citation normalization is not ready to merge while duplicated lectionary entries retain invalid scripture references and the Croatian numbering documentation inaccurately describes its source basis.

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In `@jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/dominicale_et_festivum_C/it.json`:
- Line 397: Update the responsorial_psalm_7 value to use the Italian scripture
name “Isaia 12” instead of “Isaiah 12”, preserving the existing references and
formatting.

In `@jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/la.json`:
- Line 158: Update the StAgnes first_reading reference in
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/la.json at lines 158-158 and
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/nl.json at lines 158-158,
changing “II Corinthios” to “I Corinthios” while preserving the existing verse
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- Line 592: Correct the StElizabethPortugal first_reading reference from II
Ioannem 3, 14-18 to I Ioannis 3, 14-18 in
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/la.json lines 592-592 and
jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/sanctorum/nl.json lines 592-592.

In `@scripts/lint-lectionary-psalms.php`:
- Around line 722-727: In the en/hr branch of the psalm validation logic,
validate that n1 is within the inclusive range 1–150 before continuing. Record a
failure for out-of-range bare Hebrew references, while preserving the existing
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…#973)

Two findings from review of #977.

The en/hr branch validated only the absence of a gloss and then
continued, so a bare number outside the Psalter's 1-150 range passed
unexamined. it/fr/nl/la were already covered downstream, by the mapping
table returning no equivalent, but en and hr never consult it. The check
now runs before the per-locale branches, so it covers every locale.
Verified to bite: injecting `Psalm 200` into sanctorum/en.json is now
reported, where previously it was accepted.

`dominicale_et_festivum_C/it.json` carried the English `Isaiah 12` in the
Easter Vigil's seventh psalm, where years A and B correctly read `Isaia`.
Fixed here rather than deferred because it sits in the very string this
PR rewrote — the two psalm alternatives either side of it were both
converted in this branch.

The remaining book-name defects found alongside it are NOT fixed here:
they live in `first_reading` and `gospel` fields, and touching those
would break this PR's invariant that only psalm-bearing fields move.
They are tracked in #980, which also carries two Latin citations naming
the wrong book that this review turned up.

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@matthewa26 and @sjml before I merge this, can I ask you kindly to review it, if it seems coherent? I did ask Claude Code to help me confront data from various PDFs and Bishops Conference websites to get an overview of the actual usage in referencing the Psalms in various countries. The comment on the related issue groups into four classes of conventions:

  • bare Vulgate numbering
  • bare Hebrew numbering
  • Vulgate with Hebrew in parentheses
  • Hebrew with Vulgate in parentheses

If only the various Bishops Conferences around the world would agree on a single convention in the Liturgical books! But alas that is not the case. It would be useful in any case to have a few extra pairs of eyes on this, to be sure that the reasoning and the categorization is correct, and that the corrections proposed in this PR correspond with what the liturgical books or Bishops Conference websites actually print.

The CI job's comment said the Psalter is numbered two ways and that each
locale "follows one or the other" — full stop. True of the two numbering
SYSTEMS, misleading about the conventions: a locale may also gloss the
citation with the other system's number, or not, so two systems times
"glossed or not" gives FOUR conventions across the six locales:

  bare Vulgate          la
  Vulgate (Hebrew)      it, fr
  bare Hebrew           en, hr
  Hebrew (Vulgate)      nl

The CI comment is the one place a reader meets this without the table
beside it, so it now names all four and points at the README.

The README and the script docblock were already accurate — both said
"sometimes glossed, sometimes not" — but the README now states the count
outright rather than leaving it to be inferred from the table below it.

No behaviour change: comment and prose only.

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Exclude the internally derived hr convention from the external-source claim.

Lines 16-18 state that every value below came from a bishops' conference or a printed book. Line 29 and Lines 137-142 state that hr is based only on corpus-internal consistency. Change the statement to say “Every externally sourced value below” or explicitly exclude hr.

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In `@jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md` around lines 16 - 18,
Update the README’s external-source claim near the statement that every value
was sourced from a bishops’ conference or printed book to qualify it as applying
only to externally sourced values, explicitly excluding the internally derived
hr convention.
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In `@jsondata/sourcedata/rite/roman/lectionary/README.md`:
- Around line 16-18: Update the README’s external-source claim near the
statement that every value was sourced from a bishops’ conference or printed
book to qualify it as applying only to externally sourced values, explicitly
excluding the internally derived hr convention.

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sjml commented Sep 10, 2026

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Still learning the details of how the data is structured here, so hard for me to give a definitive "looks good to me" on this. That said, it looks at first glance like a solid approach to dealing with the (unfortunate!) inconsistencies on the numbering of Psalms.

I'm still in the midst of prepping for a big move in a couple weeks, so for the next month or so especially please don't let me hold anything up. Once I'm settled a bit in the new assignment I plan on digging in here to get a better sense of the codebase / data shape / etc.

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Psalm numbering convention is split within the same lectionary file (Vulgate vs Hebrew)

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