Readings for a Sunday or feast day
get_church_year_readingsRead-onlyIdempotent
The Bible readings the Church of Norway (Den norske kirke) appoints for a Sunday or feast day, from the lectionary bible.flogvit.com shows: each reading with its title and passage (alternatives marked "or"), the year's text series, and what the day is about. Give a date, a day's name, or nothing for the next day with readings. The lectionary runs from Advent 2025 to the end of 2028. Day names and reading titles are in Norwegian; translate them for the user when needed.
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | No | A date as YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. "2026-12-24". When nothing is appointed on that date, the next date with readings is used, so a weekday gives the coming Sunday. With name, the search starts here. Default: today. | |
| name | No | The day's name, e.g. "Palmesøndag", "Pinsedag", "2. søndag i adventstiden", or for the major feasts in English: "Palm Sunday", "Christmas Day", "Pentecost". Gives the first time that day falls on or after date. Default: none, and date decides. | |
| edition | No | Edition to quote the verses from: osnb (Norwegian Bokmål), osnn (Norwegian Nynorsk), osen (English), oses (Spanish), sblgnt (Greek New Testament), tanach (Hebrew Old Testament), kjv (King James Version, English), web (World English Bible), bsb (Berean Standard Bible, English), asv (American Standard Version, English), luther_1912 (Luther 1912, German), segond_1910 (Louis Segond 1910, French), rv_1909 (Reina-Valera 1909, Spanish), akjv (American King James Version, English), albanian (Albanian Bible), bungo (Bungo-yaku, classical Japanese), cadman (Cadman 1926, Vietnamese), chinese_union_simp (Chinese Union Version, simplified), chinese_union_trad (Chinese Union Version, traditional), cpdv (Catholic Public Domain Version, English), dbt (Darby Translation, English), diodati (Diodati, Italian), drb (Douay-Rheims (Challoner), English), elberfelder_1905 (Elberfelder 1905, German), elberfelder_1871 (Elberfelder 1871, German), dnb30 (Bibelselskapet 1930, Norwegian Bokmål), erv (English Revised Version), finn (Finnish 1776), geneva (Geneva Bible, English), hcv (Haitian Creole Bible (1985)), he_modern (Modern Hebrew Bible (Delitzsch NT)), jps (JPS Tanakh 1917, English), kougo (Kougo-yaku 1954/55, Japanese), lv_gluck_8 (Glück Bible, Latvian), martin (Martin 1744, French), opt (Old Persian Version, Persian), rv_1858 (Reina-Valera 1858 New Testament, Spanish), sagradas (Sagradas Escrituras 1569, Spanish), slt (Smith's Literal Translation, English), swahili (Swahili New Testament), synodal (Synodal Translation 1876, Russian), tagab (Ang Biblia 1905, Tagalog), wbt (Webster Bible 1833, English), weymouth (Weymouth New Testament 1903, English), ylt (Young's Literal Translation, English), bn_irv (Indian Revised Version, Bengali), gu_irv (Indian Revised Version, Gujarati), irv (Indian Revised Version, Hindi), ha_con (Open Hausa Contemporary Bible), ha_lit (Litafi Mai-tsarki, Hausa New Testament), kn_irv (Indian Revised Version, Kannada), mr_irv (Indian Revised Version, Marathi), pa_irv (Indian Revised Version, Punjabi), ta_irv (Indian Revised Version, Tamil), te_irv (Indian Revised Version, Telugu), coverdale (Coverdale Bible 1535, English), tyndale (Tyndale Bible 1526/1534, English), svd (Smith-Van Dyck 1865, Arabic), my_judson (Judson Bible 1840, Burmese). Default: the edition for `language`. | |
| mapping | No | Verse numbering to give the verse references in: a mapping id from list_verse_mappings, e.g. "english_kj" (King James) or "dnb2024_nb", or a short name such as "kjv". Default: osnb, the site's own numbering. | |
| language | No | Language for names, notes and study content, and for the links to bible.flogvit.com: en (English), nb (Norwegian Bokmål), nn (Norwegian Nynorsk), sv (Swedish), fr (French), es (Spanish), fi (Finnish), de (German). Content missing in a language falls back to English. Default: en. | en |
| include_text | No | true quotes the verses of every reading (at most 200 verses in all); false gives the passages only. Default: false. |