# Church Year (remote · crossandcovenant.co)

Western church year: seasons, colors, feasts, Easter and Pascha, and the 1979 BCP Sunday lectionary.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `crossandcovenant.co`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 61/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 822 tokens (~205/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 80/100
  - Stability observed for 24 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Church Year MCP server?

Church Year is a hosted endpoint at https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http co-crossandcovenant-church-year 'https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "co-crossandcovenant-church-year": {
      "url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "co-crossandcovenant-church-year": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.co-crossandcovenant-church-year]
url = "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "co-crossandcovenant-church-year": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add co-crossandcovenant-church-year --url 'https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  co-crossandcovenant-church-year:
    url: "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "co-crossandcovenant-church-year": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add co-crossandcovenant-church-year -t streamable-http -u 'https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "co-crossandcovenant-church-year": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (4)

### `season_for_date` (~128 tokens)

Season for a date

Returns where a date falls in the Western church year: the season (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, or the season after Pentecost, also called Ordinary Time), the week of the season, the day's observance and liturgical color, the church year and its lectionary year (A, B or C), and that year's Western Easter and Orthodox Pascha. Defaults to today in Mountain Time.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD form, years 1583 to 4099. Defaults to today in Mountain Time.

### `readings_for_sunday` (~276 tokens)

Readings for a Sunday or feast

Returns the appointed Bible readings (first reading, psalm, second reading, gospel, with the alternatives) for a Sunday or major feast from the three-year Sunday lectionary of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which is public domain. Give a date (a weekday without its own lessons moves to the next Sunday) or an occasion such as "advent-1", "proper-23", "easter-day" or "christmas-day" with a year of A, B or C. With include_text, adds the passage text from the World English Bible or King James Version, both public domain. Citations only, never another translation.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD form. Defaults to the next Sunday, Mountain Time.
- `include_text` (boolean): Also return the text of the first set of readings. Default false.
- `occasion` (string): Lectionary occasion instead of a date, for example "advent-1", "lent-3", "proper-12", "trinity", "all-saints".
- `translation` (string): Translation for the text: "web" (World English Bible, default) or "kjv".
- `year` (string): Lectionary year for an occasion. Defaults to the year now in use.

### `upcoming_feast_days` (~208 tokens)

Upcoming feast days

Lists the dated feasts, fasts and holy days in a window: Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Christ the King, Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, the feasts of our Lord, apostles and evangelists, with each day's color. Applies the 1979 Book of Common Prayer rules that move a feast off a Sunday or out of Holy Week and Easter Week. Optionally includes Orthodox Pascha, Julian-calendar Christmas and Reformation Day.

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer): Length of the window in days, 1 to 400. Default 60.
- `from` (string): First date of the window, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today in Mountain Time.
- `include_other_traditions` (boolean): Include Orthodox Pascha, Julian-calendar Christmas and Reformation Day. Default true.
- `include_saints_days` (boolean): Include apostles', evangelists' and other saints' days. Default true.

### `plan_sermon_series` (~160 tokens)

Plan a sermon series

Lays out a run of Sundays from a start date: each Sunday's name, season, color, lectionary year and appointed readings from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer lectionary, the seasons the run crosses, feasts that fall on those Sundays, and every book read on three or more consecutive Sundays, with the longest such run named as a possible series spine. Rule-based, no generated text.

Input parameters:

- `focus` (string): Look for the series spine in one reading only: first, second, gospel or psalm.
- `start_date` (string, required): First date of the series, YYYY-MM-DD. A weekday starts at the next Sunday.
- `weeks` (integer, required): Number of Sundays, 1 to 26.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 79
- 2026-10-28: 78
- 2026-10-27: 78
- 2026-10-26: 78
- 2026-10-25: 77
- 2026-10-24: 77
- 2026-10-23: 76
- 2026-10-22: 76
- 2026-10-21: 75
- 2026-10-20: 75
- 2026-10-19: 74
- 2026-10-18: 74
- 2026-10-17: 73
- 2026-10-16: 73
- 2026-10-15: 72
- 2026-10-14: 72
- 2026-10-13: 71
- 2026-10-12: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Church Year MCP server?

Church Year is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as co.crossandcovenant/church-year. Western church year: seasons, colors, feasts, Easter and Pascha, and the 1979 BCP Sunday lectionary. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year).

### Is the Church Year MCP server safe to use?

Church Year scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Church Year MCP server expose?

Church Year exposes 4 tools: season_for_date, readings_for_sunday, upcoming_feast_days, plan_sermon_series. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 772 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Church Year MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Church Year without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Church Year MCP server still maintained?

Church Year is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year
- Website: https://crossandcovenant.co/church-year-connector
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-crossandcovenant-church-year/api-mcp-church-year