liturgical-calendar/alexa-newsbrief

Liturgy of the Day as an Amazon Alexa skill available for your daily news brief, using the Liturgical Calendar API

v2.0.0 2026-04-18 11:18 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• ext-dom: *
• ext-gettext: *
• ext-intl: *
• ext-simplexml: *
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.9
• laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner: ^2.10
• nyholm/psr7: ^1.8
• psr/http-client: ^1.0
• psr/http-factory: ^1.1
• psr/simple-cache: ^3.0
• symfony/cache: ^7.2
• vlucas/phpdotenv: ^5.6

Requires (Dev)

• captainhook/captainhook-phar: ^5.25
• captainhook/hook-installer: ^1.0
• php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter: ^1.0
• php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint: ^1.4
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0@stable
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4.0

Apache-2.0

• John R. D'Orazio

README

AmazonAlexa-newsbrief

Liturgy of the Day as an Amazon Alexa skill available for your daily news brief, using the Liturgical Calendar API.

Features

• PSR Compliant: Implements PSR-4 (autoloading), PSR-7 (HTTP messages), PSR-16 (caching), PSR-17 (HTTP factories), and PSR-18 (HTTP client)
• Filesystem Caching: Optional PSR-16 cache support with configurable TTL (1 week for metadata, 1 day for calendar)
• Internationalization: Supports 8 languages via GNU gettext
• SSML Support: Speech Synthesis Markup Language for proper pronunciation

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Composer
• Node.js (optional, for markdown linting)

Installation

composer require liturgical-calendar/alexa-newsbrief

Alexa Skills

Three skills are available on the Alexa skill store:

• Liturgy of the Day (English, USA): has four feeds to choose from, according to timezone within the USA. The calendar is the national liturgical calendar for the United States. Available for free on the store here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PW27RCH
• Liturgia del Giorno (Italiano): unico feed con il calendario liturgico nazionale per l'Italia. Disponibile gratuitamente sullo store qui: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B08PZ67XHY
• Liturgia del Giorno - Diocesi di Roma: unico feed con il calendario liturgico specifico della Diocesi di Roma. Disponibile gratuitamente sullo store qui: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B08PZCF5RX

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