INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

season_for_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.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for season_for_date and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

crossandcovenant.co

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.church-year-cross-covenant]
url = "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

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

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: church-year-cross-covenant
Remote MCP URL: https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

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

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

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

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "church-year-cross-covenant",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://crossandcovenant.co/api/mcp/church-year"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

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