First Sunday after Pentecost

Trinity Sunday

The Collect:

Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Old Testament: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

¹Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice?
²On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
⁴“To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.

²²The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
²³Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth—
²⁶when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world’s first bits of soil.
²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
²⁹when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
³¹rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.

Psalm: Psalm 8 or Canticle 2 or 13

¹ O Lord our Governor, *
        how exalted is your Name in all the world!
² Out of the mouths of infants and children *
        your majesty is praised above the heavens.
³ You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *
        to quell the enemy and the avenger.
⁴ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *
        the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
⁵ What is man that you should be mindful of him? *
        the son of man that you should seek him out?
⁶ You have made him but little lower than the angels; *
        you adorn him with glory and honor;
⁷ You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *
        you put all things under his feet:
⁸ All sheep and oxen, *
        even the wild beasts of the field,
⁹ The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *
        and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.
¹⁰ O Lord our Governor, *
        how exalted is your Name in all the world!

or

Glory to you, Lord God of our fathers; *
       you are worthy of praise; glory to you.
Glory to you for the radiance of your holy Name; *
       we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.
Glory to you in the splendor of your temple; *
       on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.
Glory to you, seated between the Cherubim; *
       we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.
Glory to you, beholding the depths; *
       in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.
Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; *
       we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.

Epistle: Romans 5:1-5

¹Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ²through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. ³And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Gospel: John 16:12-15

¹²“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.¹³When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

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