Model a Matins Gospel pericope and its paired homily as one atomic part

Replaces the lesson+isGospel flag with a dedicated 'gospel' ResolvedPart
carrying an optional nested homily. Previously a Gospel pericope and its
patristic homily were two separate pool entries, which the front-light
1/1/rest nocturn slicer could split into different nocturns purely by
index. buildReadingPool now folds an isGospel:true reading and its
immediately-following same-nocturn homily into a single pool entry, so
the pairing is structural rather than a convention the slicer has to
honor. hour-view.ts renders the pair as one visually grouped section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D1LqodVbQdQVoTGPz9sSw4

TODO.md

@@ -20,13 +20,6 @@ across every hour and content type in this app.
 1. **Mechanism gaps** — a real design/code piece not built yet, blocking any content pass on
    it from starting:
    - Easter's own octave — tabled, "a whole different discussion."
-   - Gospel pericope + paired homily rendered as one part: decided, not yet built. When a
-     Matins Nocturn 3 reading pairs a Gospel pericope with a patristic homily on it, render them
-     as two distinct parts, one after the other, with markup that visibly distinguishes pericope
-     from homily (not concatenated into a single `lesson` text as now). A bible-plan Gospel
-     reading has no paired homily — it renders as just the pericope, which is correct as-is.
-     Needs a schema change (splitting `lesson`+`isGospel` into a Gospel part with an optional
-     homily part) and matching UI treatment in `hour-view.ts`.
    - Date picker: `day-nav.ts` currently only steps a day at a time (prev/next); there's no
      way to jump to an arbitrary date without walking there one day at a time or editing the
      URL. Needs a calendar-grid picker UI — open, not started.
@@ -3887,3 +3880,38 @@ Transfiguration, All Saints of the Benedictine Order). The same session also clo
 pass touched (see "Matins hymn gap closed for the same categories/saints" elsewhere in this
 file) — Matins hymns are a different mechanism from the Lauds/Vespers bundle and needed their
 own pass.
+
+### Gospel pericope + paired homily rendered as one part — done (2026-08-28)
+
+Closed the last open Matins mechanism gap. `ResolvedPart` gained its own `'gospel'` kind
+(`src/hours/types.ts`), replacing the old `lesson`+`isGospel` flag entirely — a Gospel pericope
+now carries an optional nested `homily` (`{ source?, text }`) instead of being a same-kind
+sibling `lesson` part next to it.
+
+The reason for nesting rather than keeping two adjacent pool entries: `distributeIntoNocturns`'s
+front-light 1/1/rest slicing (see "Reading distribution" elsewhere in this file) splits the
+reading pool by raw index, with no notion that two adjacent entries belong together — a Gospel
+pericope and its own homily, sourced as two separate array entries in
+`data/propers/nocturn-readings/*.yml`, could land in different nocturns purely by where they
+fell in the pool. Fixed at the pool-assembly step instead of patching the slicer:
+`buildReadingPool` (`src/hours/matins.ts`) now detects an `isGospel: true` NocturnReading
+immediately followed by a same-nocturn `isGospel: false` one and folds the pair into a single
+`gospel` pool entry before it ever reaches `distributeIntoNocturns` — the pairing is structural
+(one array element), not a convention the slicer has to know about. A bible-plan Gospel reading
+(never paired with a homily, per the user's own plan) becomes a bare `gospel` part with no
+`homily`, so it still gets the same "Gospel" UI treatment.
+
+One real data wrinkle surfaced, not touched: `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml`'s Nocturn 3 has the
+homily prose already folded into the same `isGospel: true` entry's own `text` (an earlier, less
+clean authoring convention flagged in this file's own SanctiM-pass notes) rather than as a
+separate following reading — that file is left as-is per the earlier decision not to "fix" it;
+the new `'gospel'` type's `source` field (distinct from `homily`) exists specifically to carry
+that entry's own attribution without misrepresenting it as a separate homily reading.
+
+`hour-view.ts` renders the pericope with a "Gospel" heading, then the nested homily (when
+present) directly underneath in the same section, visually set off by a top border
+(`.ordo-part-homily` in `styles.css`) — one section, pericope then homily, rather than two
+separate `ordo-part` blocks that could be visually or structurally pulled apart.
+`tests/hours/matins.test.ts`'s Sunday proof (2026-09-06, Luke 7:11-16 + St. Augustine's homily)
+updated to assert against the new `gospel`/`homily` shape instead of two `isGospel`-flagged
+lessons. `npm test`/`npm run build` both pass.

src/hours/matins.ts

@@ -515,11 +515,30 @@ function nocturnReadingPart(r: NocturnReading): ResolvedPart {
     kind: 'lesson',
     text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
     label: r.source,
-    isGospel: r.isGospel,
     responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
   };
 }
 
+/** Builds a single atomic 'gospel' pool entry from a Gospel-flagged
+ * NocturnReading, folding in `homily` (the immediately following reading in
+ * the same array, when it's a genuine separate homily on this pericope —
+ * see `buildReadingPool`'s own pairing check) as a nested field rather than
+ * a second pool entry. This is what makes the pairing structural: a single
+ * ResolvedPart can't be split across two nocturns by `distributeIntoNocturns`,
+ * whereas two adjacent pool entries could be (and, before this, sometimes
+ * were). */
+function gospelReadingPart(r: NocturnReading, homily: NocturnReading | undefined): ResolvedPart {
+  return {
+    kind: 'gospel',
+    text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
+    source: r.source,
+    responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
+    homily: homily
+      ? { source: homily.source, text: { text: homily.text, status: homily.status, citation: homily.citation } }
+      : undefined,
+  };
+}
+
 /** The full pool of readings available for `day` — every source that can
  * contribute (see this file's header): the user's own scripture-plan
  * readings, the office winner's and every commemorated saint's own
@@ -538,12 +557,16 @@ function nocturnReadingPart(r: NocturnReading): ResolvedPart {
 function buildReadingPool(day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string, date: string): ResolvedPart[] {
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [];
   for (const r of getBiblePlanReadings(temporalId, day.weekday, date)) {
-    parts.push({
+    const responsory = r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified' as const, en: 'verified' as const } } : undefined;
-      kind: 'lesson',
+    // The user's own reading plan never pairs a Gospel with a homily (see
-      text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation },
+    // this file's own header) — a bare pericope, still its own 'gospel'
-      isGospel: r.isGospel,
+    // kind so it gets the same distinguishing UI treatment as a proper
-      responsory: r.responsory ? { text: r.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } } : undefined,
+    // Gospel+homily.
-    });
+    parts.push(
+      r.isGospel
+        ? { kind: 'gospel', text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation }, responsory }
+        : { kind: 'lesson', text: { text: r.text, status: r.status, citation: r.citation }, responsory },
+    );
   }
   // Grouped by the reading's own `nocturn` tag (ascending), not by which id
   // contributed it — a later post-Pentecost Sunday's Nocturn 2 now comes
@@ -558,9 +581,25 @@ function buildReadingPool(day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string, date: string):
   const ids = nocturnReadingIds(day, temporalId, date);
   const byNocturn = new Map<number, ResolvedPart[]>();
   for (const id of ids) {
-    for (const reading of getNocturnReadings(id)) {
+    const readings = getNocturnReadings(id);
+    for (let i = 0; i < readings.length; i++) {
+      const reading = readings[i]!;
       const bucket = byNocturn.get(reading.nocturn) ?? [];
+      if (reading.isGospel) {
+        // A genuine separate homily on this pericope is the very next
+        // reading in the same file, in the same nocturn, not itself flagged
+        // as a Gospel — the established authoring convention (see
+        // src/propers/nocturn-readings.ts's own header and this file's
+        // 'gospel' ResolvedPart doc comment). When found, fold it in and
+        // skip it as its own pool entry so the pair can never be split
+        // apart by distributeIntoNocturns.
+        const next = readings[i + 1];
+        const homily = next && !next.isGospel && next.nocturn === reading.nocturn ? next : undefined;
+        bucket.push(gospelReadingPart(reading, homily));
+        if (homily) i++;
+      } else {
         bucket.push(nocturnReadingPart(reading));
+      }
       byNocturn.set(reading.nocturn, bucket);
     }
   }
@@ -574,7 +613,6 @@ function buildReadingPool(day: LiturgicalDay, temporalId: string, date: string):
         kind: 'lesson',
         text: { text: reading.text, status: reading.status },
         label: reading.source,
-        isGospel: false,
         responsory: reading.responsory
           ? { text: reading.responsory, status: { la: 'verified', en: 'verified' } }
           : undefined,

src/hours/types.ts

@@ -247,24 +247,45 @@ export type ResolvedPart =
   // readings' own `source` is a genuine bilingual attribution (their
   // English title is a real translation of a Latin incipit, not an
   // editorial description written once) so `label` accepts either shape —
-  // see hour-view.ts's renderLessonLabel. `isGospel` flags a reading
+  // see hour-view.ts's renderLessonLabel. `responsory` is the short
-  // as a Gospel pericope (from either the user's own continuous-reading
+  // responsory said after the reading, when one was sourced (matched
-  // plan or the day's own proper Gospel+homily — never a Common-of-Saints
+  // loosely by scriptural book for the user's own plan, live-queried
-  // fallback Gospel, which this app deliberately excludes for Matins, see
+  // directly for patristic/hagiographic readings) — absent, not
-  // hours/matins.ts) rather than a distinct part kind, since a Gospel
+  // fabricated, when none could be sourced. A Gospel pericope is never
-  // reading is still fundamentally a lesson — just one worth marking.
+  // rendered with this kind — see 'gospel' below.
-  // `responsory` is the short responsory said after the reading, when one
-  // was sourced (matched loosely by scriptural book for the user's own
-  // plan, live-queried directly for patristic/hagiographic readings) —
-  // absent, not fabricated, when none could be sourced.
   | {
       kind: 'lesson';
       text: ResolvedText;
       label?: string | Partial<Record<string, string>>;
       nocturn?: number;
       source?: string;
-      isGospel?: boolean;
       responsory?: ResolvedText;
+    }
+  // Matins only. A Gospel pericope, from either the user's own continuous
+  // reading plan (no paired homily) or the day's own genuine proper
+  // Gospel+homily (src/propers/nocturn-readings.ts — never a
+  // Common-of-Saints fallback Gospel, which this app deliberately excludes
+  // for Matins, see hours/matins.ts). Split out from the generic 'lesson'
+  // kind (2026-08-28) so a Gospel and its paired homily can be modeled as
+  // one atomic part: when the source pairs a pericope with a patristic
+  // homily on it as two adjacent readings, hours/matins.ts's
+  // buildReadingPool combines them into a single 'gospel' part with
+  // `homily` nested, rather than two separate pool entries — this is what
+  // guarantees distributeIntoNocturns can never split a Gospel from its
+  // own homily across two different nocturns; the pool's earlier
+  // front-light 1/1/rest slicing could otherwise do exactly that. `source`
+  // is set only for the rare case where the pericope's own text already
+  // has homily prose folded into it at the data layer (an earlier, less
+  // clean authoring convention — see chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml's own
+  // header) — a genuinely separate homily reading, when authored, is
+  // `homily` instead.
+  | {
+      kind: 'gospel';
+      text: ResolvedText;
+      nocturn?: number;
+      source?: string;
+      responsory?: ResolvedText;
+      homily?: { source?: string; text: ResolvedText };
     };
 
 export interface ResolvedVerse {

src/hours/vespers.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { HourDefinition, HourPart, ResolvedOrdo, ResolvedPart, ResolvedText } from './types';
 import type { LiturgicalDay, Weekday } from '../calendar/types';
 import { resolveEveningDay } from '../calendar/vespers';
+import { weekdayOf } from '../calendar/weekday';
 import { getDayLabel } from '../calendar/day-label';
 import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
@@ -70,9 +71,16 @@ function psalmParts(group: VespersGroup, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
 /** The 4 weekday-variable psalm groups — no fixed leading/trailing psalm
  * the way Lauds has (Ps 66 / the Laudate psalms); Vespers is just these 4
  * groups in sequence. No per-feast override mechanism yet — see
- * hours/types.ts's 'vespers-psalmody' doc comment. */
+ * hours/types.ts's 'vespers-psalmody' doc comment. Deliberately keyed off
-function resolvePsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
+ * `weekday` (today's actual calendar weekday), not `day.weekday` — `day`
-  const wd = vespersAntiphons[day.weekday];
+ * may be tomorrow's identity when tonight anticipates First Vespers (see
+ * resolveEveningDay), but the psalm cycle has no per-feast override and
+ * must stay on today's place in the fixed 6-day rotation regardless of
+ * whose office governs the evening's propers. `day` is still threaded
+ * into psalmParts for antiphon-fullness resolution, which does care who
+ * governs tonight. */
+function resolvePsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay, weekday: Weekday): ResolvedPart[] {
+  const wd = vespersAntiphons[weekday];
   return wd.groups.flatMap((group) => psalmParts(group, day));
 }
 
@@ -154,12 +162,12 @@ function resolveOffice(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   ];
 }
 
-function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
+function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay, weekday: Weekday): ResolvedPart[] {
   switch (part.kind) {
     case 'opening-versicle':
       return [{ kind: 'versicle', text: resolveCommon(getOpeningVersicleId(day.season, day.winner)) }];
     case 'vespers-psalmody':
-      return resolvePsalmody(day);
+      return resolvePsalmody(day, weekday);
     case 'vespers-office':
       return resolveOffice(day);
     case 'magnificat': {
@@ -216,6 +224,10 @@ export function resolveOrdo(date: string): ResolvedOrdo {
   // vespers.ts) — getDayCollects picks that up for free, no special
   // handling needed here.
   const day = resolveEveningDay(date);
-  const parts = vespersDefinition.parts.flatMap((part) => resolvePart(part, day));
+  // Today's own weekday, independent of the possibly-anticipated `day`
+  // above — see resolvePsalmody's doc comment for why psalm selection
+  // must not follow the evening's borrowed identity.
+  const weekday = weekdayOf(date);
+  const parts = vespersDefinition.parts.flatMap((part) => resolvePart(part, day, weekday));
   return { hourId: 'vespers', date, parts, dayLabel: getDayLabel(day) };
 }

src/ui/hour-view.ts

@@ -91,13 +91,41 @@ function renderPart(part: ResolvedPart, languages: readonly string[]): string {
       `;
     case 'lesson':
       return `
-        <section class="ordo-part ordo-part-lesson${part.isGospel ? ' ordo-part-lesson-gospel' : ''}">
+        <section class="ordo-part ordo-part-lesson">
-          ${part.isGospel ? '<h3 class="ordo-part-label">Gospel</h3>' : renderLessonLabel(part.label, languages)}
+          ${renderLessonLabel(part.label, languages)}
           ${renderCitation(part.text)}
           ${renderColumns(part.text, languages)}
           ${part.responsory ? `<div class="ordo-part-responsory">${renderColumns(part.responsory, languages)}</div>` : ''}
         </section>
       `;
+    // A Gospel pericope, with its paired patristic homily (when authored)
+    // nested right after it in the same section rather than as a separate
+    // pool entry — see hours/matins.ts's buildReadingPool, which combines
+    // the two into one atomic part specifically so they can never end up in
+    // different nocturns. `part.source` (rare — see the 'gospel' type's own
+    // doc comment) is homily attribution already folded into the pericope's
+    // own text at the data layer; `part.homily`, when present, is a
+    // genuinely separate reading, rendered with its own label underneath.
+    case 'gospel':
+      return `
+        <section class="ordo-part ordo-part-lesson ordo-part-gospel">
+          <h3 class="ordo-part-label">Gospel</h3>
+          ${renderCitation(part.text)}
+          ${renderColumns(part.text, languages)}
+          ${part.source ? `<p class="ordo-part-citation">${escapeHtml(part.source)}</p>` : ''}
+          ${part.responsory ? `<div class="ordo-part-responsory">${renderColumns(part.responsory, languages)}</div>` : ''}
+          ${
+            part.homily
+              ? `
+            <div class="ordo-part-homily">
+              ${renderLessonLabel(part.homily.source, languages)}
+              ${renderColumns(part.homily.text, languages)}
+            </div>
+          `
+              : ''
+          }
+        </section>
+      `;
     case 'psalm': {
       // Always cite the full range, not just the psalm number — a 4-verse
       // slice of Psalm 118 is a different citation from the whole psalm.

src/ui/styles.css

@@ -307,6 +307,17 @@ button:focus-visible {
   margin: 0 0 var(--space-1);
 }
 
+.ordo-part-gospel {
+  border-left: 2px solid var(--color-brass);
+  padding-left: var(--space-2);
+}
+
+.ordo-part-homily {
+  margin-top: var(--space-2);
+  padding-top: var(--space-2);
+  border-top: 1px solid var(--color-brass);
+}
+
 .psalm-verses {
   list-style: none;
   margin: 0;

tests/hours/matins.test.ts

@@ -146,35 +146,33 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("matins", ...) Sunday (3-nocturn) branch', () => {
     expect(citations).toContain('Sir 45');
   });
 
-  it('includes the real Nocturn 2 patristic reading (Gregory on Job) and Nocturn 3 Gospel + homily, both flagged correctly', () => {
+  it('includes the real Nocturn 2 patristic reading (Gregory on Job) and Nocturn 3 Gospel + homily as one atomic gospel part', () => {
-    const lessons = ordo.parts.filter(
+    const lessons = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'lesson') as { label?: string }[];
-      (p) => p.kind === 'lesson',
-    ) as { label?: string; isGospel?: boolean; text: { text: { la?: string } } }[];
     const gregory = lessons.find((l) => l.label?.includes('Gregory'));
     expect(gregory).toBeDefined();
-    expect(gregory?.isGospel).toBe(false);
 
-    const gospel = lessons.find((l) => l.isGospel);
+    const gospels = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'gospel') as {
-    expect(gospel).toBeDefined();
+      text: { text: { la?: string } };
-    expect(gospel?.text.text.la).toContain('Naim');
+      homily?: { source?: string; text: { text: { la?: string } } };
-
+    }[];
-    const homily = lessons.find((l) => l.label?.includes('Augustine'));
+    expect(gospels).toHaveLength(1);
-    expect(homily).toBeDefined();
+    const gospel = gospels[0]!;
-    expect(homily?.isGospel).toBe(false);
+    expect(gospel.text.text.la).toContain('Naim');
+    expect(gospel.homily?.source).toContain('Augustine');
+    expect(gospel.homily?.text.text.la).toBeTruthy();
   });
 
-  it('never sources a Gospel from a Common-of-Saints fallback — every Gospel-flagged reading traces to the bible-plan or a real proper', () => {
+  it('never sources a Gospel from a Common-of-Saints fallback — the only gospel part traces to the bible-plan or a real proper', () => {
-    const lessons = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'lesson') as { isGospel?: boolean; label?: string }[];
+    const gospels = ordo.parts.filter((p) => p.kind === 'gospel');
-    const gospels = lessons.filter((l) => l.isGospel);
     // This Sunday's own TSV row deliberately has no Gospel (confirmed
-    // editorial choice) — the only Gospel-flagged reading should be the
+    // editorial choice) — the only gospel part should be the day's own
-    // day's own proper Nocturn 3 Gospel, not a substituted Common one.
+    // proper Nocturn 3 Gospel, not a substituted Common one.
     expect(gospels).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
-  it('orders Te Deum after every reading, and the day collect last', () => {
+  it('orders Te Deum after every reading (lesson or gospel), and the day collect last', () => {
     const teDeumIndex = ordo.parts.findIndex((p) => p.kind === 'te-deum');
-    const lastLessonIndex = ordo.parts.map((p) => p.kind).lastIndexOf('lesson');
+    const lastLessonIndex = ordo.parts.map((p) => p.kind).map((k, i) => ((k === 'lesson' || k === 'gospel') ? i : -1)).reduce((a, b) => Math.max(a, b), -1);
     const prayerIndex = ordo.parts.findIndex((p) => p.kind === 'prayer');
     expect(teDeumIndex).toBeGreaterThan(lastLessonIndex);
     expect(prayerIndex).toBeGreaterThan(teDeumIndex);

tests/hours/vespers.test.ts

@@ -235,6 +235,20 @@ describe('resolveOrdo("vespers", ...)', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it('keeps ferial psalmody on the actual calendar weekday even while the office anticipates tomorrow\'s First Vespers', () => {
+    // 2026-08-25 is a Tuesday, but its evening anticipates St. Zephyrinus's
+    // First Vespers (Aug 26) per the test just above -- the psalm cycle has
+    // no per-feast override (see hours/vespers.ts's resolvePsalmody), so it
+    // must stay on Tuesday's own group [129, 130, 131, 132], not slip to
+    // Wednesday's [134, 135, 136, 137] just because the office borrowed
+    // Wednesday's identity.
+    const ordo = resolveOrdo('vespers', '2026-08-25');
+    const psalmNumbers = ordo.parts
+      .filter((p) => p.kind === 'psalm')
+      .map((p) => (p.kind === 'psalm' ? p.psalmNumber : undefined));
+    expect(psalmNumbers).toEqual([129, 130, 131, 132]);
+  });
+
   it("uses Common-of-Several-Martyrs' real office bundle on Ss. Placid and Companions' own day (Duplex II. classis, keeps own Vespers)", () => {
     // Live-verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617)
     // votive=C3 -- see vespers-hymn-common-of-several-martyrs.yml's header.