Credits & Attributions

What's original to BodyBook

The plain-English explanations of the Mass, the prayer walkthroughs, the bilingual learning notes, the geography summaries, and the AI listener's responses are all original composition. They draw on the same Bibles, catechisms, and Catholic tradition any reader has access to — but the writing is ours.

Facts and ideas can't be copyrighted. A theological concept, a Bible story, the meaning of a Latin word, the historical context of a feast day — those belong to no one. The wording on this site is what we own; the wording in any specific copyrighted translation belongs to its translator.

Bible translations we may quote

Scripture quotations on this site default to the World English Bible (WEB), Catholic edition with the deuterocanonical books. The WEB is in the public domain — free to copy and use without permission.

For Spanish, we use the Reina-Valera 1909 (public domain). For Latin, the Clementine Vulgate (1914 Hetzenauer edition, public domain).

When the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) is quoted — primarily for the daily Mass readings sourced from USCCB's RSS feed — the text is © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD), used under USCCB's RSS daily-readings permission policy. USCCB NABRE Permissions →

Mass texts (Roman Missal)

Where short responses from the English Roman Missal, 3rd Edition are quoted (e.g. "And with your spirit", "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord"), the text is © 2010 International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL). Used in accordance with ICEL's reprint policy for educational and devotional use. ICEL copyright policy →

The plain-English explanations and commentary about the Mass on this site are original to BodyBook.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Quotations from the Catechism (cited as CCC §N) are taken from the official text at vatican.va/archive/ccc. The Catechism is © Libreria Editrice Vaticana, with US rights administered by the USCCB. Short quotations on this site fall within the USCCB's non-commercial usage allowance.

Prayer texts

Traditional English and Spanish prayer texts (Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Apostles' Creed, etc.) are in the public domain. The 2011 ICEL revised translations of certain prayers — where used — are © 2010 ICEL and attributed accordingly.

Liturgical calendar

Liturgical calendar data (current liturgical day, season, color, saint of the day) is computed locally using Romcal, an open-source JavaScript library implementing the General Roman Calendar of the Roman Rite. MIT-licensed.

Reflect — AI listener

The conversational AI on /reflect runs on Cloudflare Workers AI using Meta's Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, with a pastoral Catholic system prompt written for BodyBook. Conversations are stored only against your private session cookie (no account, no email, no identity); lose the cookie and the history is gone.

The AI is a listener, not a priest. It does not absolve sin, does not replace sacramental confession, and is not a substitute for professional pastoral or mental-health care.

Bible geography & maps (future)

When /lands is fleshed out, place descriptions will draw primarily from Hurlbut, Rand-McNally Bible Atlas (public domain, via Project Gutenberg). Short attributed excerpts from copyrighted modern works (Wycliffe, Schlegel, Issar) may appear with proper citation. Map data will be original or sourced from openly-licensed providers.

Code

BodyBook runs on Cloudflare Workers with Wrangler, written in TypeScript. Storage is Cloudflare D1 (SQLite at the edge). Inference is Workers AI. The source code lives at github.com/Alpha-Mero/bodybook-worker (when the repo is public — currently private during early development).

Corrections

If any attribution on this page is incorrect, incomplete, or if your work appears here and you'd like it adjusted or removed, please reach out. BodyBook is built in good faith and we'll fix anything we got wrong.