Collect
Holy God, faithful and unchanging: enlarge our minds with the knowledge of
your truth, and draw us more deeply into the mystery of your love, that we
may truly worship you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Proverbs 8. 1-4, 22-31
Does 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.
24 When 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.
Romans 5. 1-5
Therefore, 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.
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.