19 April
Psalm 122:6-9 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May they prosper who love you. 7 Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers.’ 8 For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’ 9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
Isaiah 2:3-5 Many peoples shall come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
Colossians 1:15-20 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,20 and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
These scripture readings relate to the Colman readings (Buechner’s ABC) in Celtic Daily Prayer Book 2.