Why arent more choices of patron saint automatically offered in DISMISSAL? Why do I have to manually enter my temples patron?
The application lists only those commemorations that are already part of the dismissal template or have the potential to be. If your temples patron saint or titular feast is not listed, click the NONE OF THE ABOVE button and you will be prompted to enter the name of your patron. The program needs to know if your patron is one of those listed in order to flag and prevent redundancies in the dismissal. For instance, if it is the feastday of St. John Chrysostom, and the service being celebrated is the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and it is being celebrated in a temple dedicated to St. John Chrysostom, St. John should not be mentioned three times in the dismissal. In such a case, the program will suppress all but the commemoration of the day. N.B.: If you manually enter your temples patron saint, you will need to manually edit out the redundant patronal commemoration that will be incorporated in the dismissal on the patrons feastday.
