# Liturgy Ribbons

> Free daily guide to where the ribbons go in the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours (the Divine Office breviary), following the USCCB calendar for the United States. It gives the liturgical season, week, Psalter week (I to IV), liturgical color, the day's celebration, which volume to use, and the exact placement of every ribbon, for the first edition (5 ribbons) and the Second Edition from Word on Fire (7 ribbons) and Ascension (8 ribbons). It does not reproduce the text of the Office.

Today (October 22, 2026, as of the nightly build; use the JSON below for any other date): Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Psalter Week I. Color: green. Volume IV (Ordinary Time, Weeks 18 to 34).
First edition placements: fixed bookmark at the Ordinary; ribbon 1: Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time; ribbon 2: Psalter, Week I, Thursday; ribbon 3: Night Prayer, Thursday; ribbon 4: St. John Paul II; ribbon 5: Commons.

## Daily data (JSON)

- [Any date](https://liturgyribbons.com/api/YYYY-MM-DD.json): one file per date, e.g. https://liturgyribbons.com/api/2026-10-22.json. Fields: date, season, week, psalterWeek, liturgicalColor, celebration, breviaryVolume, ribbonPlacements for editions 5, 7 and 8.
- [Today](https://liturgyribbons.com/api/today.json): rebuilt each night (US Eastern).
- [Index](https://liturgyribbons.com/api/index.json): the date range currently published.
- [Developer guide](https://liturgyribbons.com/developers): fields, usage and credit.

## Guides

- [Daily ribbon guide](https://liturgyribbons.com/): today's placements, any date, installable offline.
- [How to set the ribbons](https://liturgyribbons.com/ribbon-placement): what each ribbon marks and why.
- [What Psalter week is it today](https://liturgyribbons.com/psalter-week-today): the four-week cycle and how it resets.
- [Which volume am I in](https://liturgyribbons.com/which-volume): the four volumes and their date ranges this year.
- [Second Edition ribbons](https://liturgyribbons.com/second-edition-ribbons): 7 and 8 ribbon layouts, dates for the 2027 transition, mixing old and new volumes.
- [Easter Octave](https://liturgyribbons.com/easter-octave), [Paschal Triduum](https://liturgyribbons.com/triduum), [Christmas Octave](https://liturgyribbons.com/christmas-octave): the seasonal exceptions.
- [Monthly calendar](https://liturgyribbons.com/calendar/): every day at a glance, fifteen months ahead.

## Notes

- Calendar: USCCB, United States. Other countries' proper calendars can differ on some days.
- Second Edition layouts are provisional until the printed volumes ship in January 2027.
- Contact: pray@liturgyribbons.com. Please cite Liturgy Ribbons (liturgyribbons.com).