Warning: this source only exists for churches that have declared themselves a church of the Message in their Settings. Others do not see the tile, and the server refuses access even if the address is typed by hand.
Two ways in
You are looking for two different things, and the screen does not guess which:
- By title: you know what you want. "The Token", or the year 1963.
- In the text: you are looking for a sentence you can no longer place. The search covers all 394,134 paragraphs in the library and returns excerpts.
The paragraph number
A sermon does not flow like the Bible. It was spoken, and the corpus keeps it cut into numbered paragraphs.
That number lives in the margin, to the left of the text, and lights up when the paragraph is taken. It is not decoration: it is your note's anchor, and the only thing that survives a reimport of the text.
As with the Bible, tapping a second paragraph takes the whole range. It is limited to five paragraphs: beyond that, you are no longer keeping a passage.
Two languages, and what to know about them
The sermons exist in French and English. The selector keeps the sermon and your paragraph.
Warning: out of 1,218 bilingual sermons, 306 do not have the same number of paragraphs in French and English. After switching, "§142" may therefore point to a different passage. The reader tells you when the count changes, and your note always keeps the version you wrote it in.
VGR Online
Our own library holds only French and English. The VGR Online mode serves five languages live from The Table, including Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
Two important differences:
- if the sermon does not exist in your language, the English text is shown instead, and a line says so;
- a note made there keeps its reference and your comment, but no excerpt. That text is not ours, and Sanctumel keeps none of it.
What does not print
The Message text belongs to VGR. No command in this reader takes the sermon out: no printing, no export, no full copy. The excerpt kept in your notebook is bounded to four hundred characters, and prints as such, like a Bible excerpt.