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The Little Office no longer prints the same label six times, office elements now carry the archive's own slug, and two layout bugs that squeezed the portal on a phone are gone.
Read →The developer portal moves to torchandlily.com and the altar to lumen.torchandlily.com. Every old link redirects, and the API itself does not move at all.
Read →Six pages showing what each engine actually returns, a facing-page setting for Latin and English on the altar, and a sitemap that stops advertising locked doors.
Read →We took down a wiki of 24,600 pages and put a single page in its place. An account of why, and of what stands at torchandlily.com now.
Read →The Little Office of the BVM at every hour, the daily lectionary, and torchandlily.com becomes an altar.
Read →Saint provenance now reaches the API, Summa proof-texts carry a resolvable book slug, and three documented saint routes were wrong.
Read →Prefilled corrections, edit links across the Speculum, a reviewer diff view, and a mended ingest pipeline.
Read →The liturgical calendar engine now follows the current General Roman Calendar — authoritative feast days, true precedence rules, the Triduum, and transfer of impeded solemnities.
Read →A new public wiki for the Catholic faith — saints, Scripture, the Summa, prayers, theological works, the liturgical calendar, and sacred sites, all searchable and cross-linked.
Read →Community contributions are live. Submit saints, prayers, books, and corrections — plus open data dumps, MCP knowledge tools, and expanded documentation.
Read →Torch & Lily is becoming something bigger — open data, community contributions, and a shared treasury of the Catholic tradition.
Read →The Epistulae now dispatch automatically. A short note on how — and why it matters.
Read →An introduction to Torch & Lily — what it is, why it exists, and what we are building toward.
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