23 March

Psalm 121:3-4 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.  4 He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Matthew 9:17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.

These scripture readings relate to the Finan Readings (Small Beginnings) in Celtic Daily Prayer, volume 1