Moravian Daily Texts / Watchwords 2023

NB.Mick · December 2022

Some of you may have heard about the small daily lectionary called Daily Texts, Moravian Texts, or Daily Watchwords, in German "Die Losungen" - at least from my yearly posts in this forum. This small lectionary consists of a daily Old Testament verse (randomly drawn from a pool of verses) and a New Testament verse put alongside to illustrate. There are additional weekly verses (those are part of the official protestant liturgy in Germany), monthly verses and a yearly text. The printed booklets will have a daily "third text", most often from a hymn or a prayer, that differs between the many published versions and is not to be included in electronic offerings of the Daily Texts.

This lectionary has been in yearly print now for 293 years without interruption, despite all difficulties, and is used by millions of people around the globe (published in around 60 languages), far beyond the small protestant church it comes from. The data for the original German language version is made available online, thus you can use it yourself in Logos / Verbum by building a Personal Book from the following file: 8726.Die Losungen 2023.docx

The Personal Book needs a title ("Die Losungen") and needs to be build as type:lectionary and in language:German to work - see the red arrows and boxes in the screenshot.

Note that the Personal Book not only contains the official German language verses (light orange arrows) with pop-up/links to your preferred bible (blue arrows): due to the Logos dynamic text feature, you can select any bible you want, i.e. your preferred language/translation, or the Greek or Hebrew texts - I used the MEV for this screenshot (see the green boxes).

The compiled book will open to the current date - you may navigate with the date field in the locator bar or the ToC (pink boxes)

Note: The text selection copyright is owned by the Evangelische Brüder-Unität - Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, the text source and further information is available at http://www.losungen.de