COLLECT FOR THE WEEK
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your
servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of
the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the
Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from
all adversities; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and
reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen
READINGS
First Reading: Proverbs 8.1-4,22-31
Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries
out: ‘To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. The LORD created me at the beginning of his
work, the first of his acts of long
ago. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the
earth. When there were no depths I was
brought forth, when there were no
springs abounding with water. Before the
mountains had been shaped, before the
hills, I was brought forth – when he had
not yet made earth and fields, or the
world’s first bits of soil.
When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the
deep, when he made firm the skies
above, when he established the
fountains of the deep, when 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, then I was beside him, like a master
worker; and I was daily his
delight, rejoicing before him
always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Second Reading: Romans 5.1-5
Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this
grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and
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.
The Gospel Reading: John 16.12-15
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I still have many things to
say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When 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. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to
you. All 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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