From 1e4e97056bb73331e7250baf0a4f932fd1d557d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Glass Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 10:22:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Close the Kochurov/ROCOR question: the data is OCA's, not ROCOR's The last open follow-up from #225, which was merged before this landed. Checked against holytrinityorthodox.com, the ROCOR calendar, which reckons old calendar so Julian Oct 31 is Gregorian Nov 13. ROCOR commemorates St John Kochurov and gives him no proper readings. The day names him among a dozen commemorations and its scripture line is the plain daily cycle, 1 Thess 5:9-13, 24-28 / Luke 11:23-26. A control rules out the page simply not printing propers: Julian Nov 13, St John Chrysostom, lists John 10:1-9 as Matins Gospel and Heb 7:26-8:2 / John 10:9-16 each labelled "St. John". The format shows propers, with service and attribution, when they exist. So the hypothesis was backwards. Kochurov's three readings are OCA's, and ROCOR is the tradition without them. This app's Slavic data is compiled from oca.org and follows it here, so nothing changes. Recorded as a genuine OCA/ROCOR divergence, since `tradition` has only slavic, greek and common and no axis to express one -- Oct 31 is a known instance if that axis is ever added. It also settles the earlier misstep retrospectively: deleting Kochurov's Epistle and repointing his Gospel would have moved this app toward ROCOR practice by accident, away from its own documented source. Documentation only; no code or data changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019nQRjJpPqW89xqzAf1vsEX --- docs/oca-audit.md | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/oca-audit.md b/docs/oca-audit.md index 3be64ece..c13dbdb6 100644 --- a/docs/oca-audit.md +++ b/docs/oca-audit.md @@ -890,17 +890,33 @@ divergence is from OCA specifically rather than from Greek practice. Reducing to one pair is the contract `aget_abbreviated_readings` promises, and two of the three sources agree with it. -## Follow-up: is Oct 31's Kochurov data there for ROCOR? - -Brian raised this (2026-08-29). The Oct 31 readings for St John Kochurov were -first judged wrong against oca.org's monthly lectionary, then restored when the -all-services harvest showed oca.org has them after all. But there is a further -question underneath: Kochurov is a New Martyr of the Russian Church, and the -data may have been shaped for **ROCOR** practice rather than OCA. - -**Not yet checked.** -(Holy Trinity, Jordanville) is the ROCOR calendar to compare against. Worth -doing before any further change to that date -- and worth remembering that -`tradition` here has only `slavic`, `greek` and `common`, with no OCA/ROCOR -axis, so a genuine OCA-vs-ROCOR divergence has nowhere to live in the current -schema. +## Oct 31's Kochurov data is OCA's, not ROCOR's -- closed + +Checked 2026-09-03 against holytrinityorthodox.com (Holy Trinity, Jordanville), +the ROCOR calendar. It reckons old calendar, so Julian Oct 31 is Gregorian +Nov 13. + +**ROCOR commemorates him and gives him no proper readings.** The day lists "New +Hieromartyr Priest John Kochurov of Chicago and St. Petersburg (1917)" among a +dozen commemorations, and its scripture line is the plain daily cycle for the +24th week after Pentecost -- `1 Thess 5:9-13, 24-28` / `Luke 11:23-26`. + +A control rules out the obvious objection that the page simply does not print +propers: Gregorian Nov 26 2026, Julian Nov 13, St John Chrysostom, lists +`John 10:1-9` as Matins Gospel and `Heb 7:26-8:2` / `John 10:9-16` each labelled +"St. John". The format shows propers, with their service and attribution, when +they exist. + +So the hypothesis was backwards. Kochurov's three readings are OCA's -- oca.org +gives `Heb 13:7-16`, `Luke 12:32-40` and `John 10:9-16`, all labelled for him -- +and ROCOR is the tradition that has none. This app's Slavic data is compiled +from oca.org and follows it here, which is correct and needs no change. + +It is worth recording as a genuine OCA/ROCOR divergence, since `tradition` has +only `slavic`, `greek` and `common` and no axis to express one. Oct 31 is a +known instance if that axis is ever added. + +One thing this does settle retrospectively: the earlier "fix" that deleted +Kochurov's Epistle and repointed his Gospel would have moved this app toward +ROCOR practice by accident, away from its own documented source. The +all-services harvest caught it, and this check confirms the restore was right.