person.dev / bcp

Morning and evening prayer in a quiet window.

bcp is a small reader in the Terminal for the Daily Office, a rhythm of morning and evening prayer: Psalms, Scripture readings, local notes, and a simple history to mark your path.

For reading, not scrolling

The point is not to learn a new technology. The point is to have a modest place for daily prayer that does not behave like an app feed.

Open it, read the office, make a note if you need to, and leave. No account, no dashboard, no reminders competing for attention.

bcp daily morning --pages

Morning Prayer
Collect
Psalm 15
Psalm 16
First Lesson
Second Lesson

Watch it run

A short terminal recording shows the first-use prompt, the keyboard-driven reader, library readings, and local history.

There is an island there is no going to but in a small boat the way the saints went.

R. S. Thomas, “Pilgrimages” about the pilgrims

The terminal is not the island. It is only a small boat: plain, narrow, and useful for crossing out of the ordinary noise for a little while.

How it works

Install once

On a Mac, open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, paste the install command from the box below, and press Return. The current version installs from GitHub because bcp is intentionally a text-first tool, not a store app. The package is named daily-bcp; after installation, the command is simply bcp. It is free to use, and there is nothing to buy.

pipx install git+https://github.com/dwhamilton/daily-bcp.git

Never used the Terminal before? Read the first-time guide.

Read the office

Run the short command when you want the daily office. Morning and evening are available directly.

bcp
bcp daily morning
bcp daily evening

Keep your place

Notes and history stay local, so the practice can accumulate without becoming another online account. If you have not chosen an editor, notes open in nano, a simple editor in the Terminal with save and exit commands shown on screen.

bcp notes
bcp history

If the Terminal sounds like the hard part

Fair. For this tool the Terminal is just the place where the reader opens. You may feel like you are taking that small boat to that far away island. If that journey is not for you right now, go in peace.

Other systems

These instructions are written for macOS. Windows can run tools like this too, usually through PowerShell or WSL, but that path needs its own careful guide. If you are on Linux, you probably already had a terminal open before you got this far.

A small promise

bcp is early software, just the basics. The hope is simple: less interface between your attention and the words appointed for the day, in the Anglican tradition of the Book of Common Prayer.

Questions, problems, or suggestions? Open an issue on GitHub.

person.dev is named for the person at the keyboard: the one reading, praying, remembering, and returning tomorrow.