12 May
Psalm 129:1-2, 5-7 Often have they attacked me from my youth’ —let Israel now say— 2 ‘often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back. 6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up, 7 with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,
1 Samuel 25:4-9 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, ‘Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. 6 Thus you shall salute him: “Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. 7 I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel.8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favour in your sight; for we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.”’ 9 When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.
1 Thessalonians 5:11-19 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. 12 But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labour among you, and have charge of you in the Lord and admonish you; 13 esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.14 And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them. 15 See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit.
These scripture readings relate to the Colman readings (Celtic Pathways through the valley of decision) in Celtic Daily Prayer Book 2.