The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Proverbs 8:22-31 | Before the earth was made, Wisdom was conceived.

The Wisdom of God cries aloud:

The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded, before the oldest of his works. From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, before earth came into being. The deep was not, when I was born, there were no springs to gush with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth; before he made the earth, the countryside, or the first grains of the world’s dust. When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there, when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, when he thickened the clouds above, when he fixed fast the springs of the deep, when he assigned the sea its boundaries – and the waters will not invade the shore – when he laid down the foundations of the earth, I was by his side, a master craftsman, delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere in his world, delighting to be with the sons of men.

Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 | How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

  When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,

  the moon and the stars which you arranged,

  what is man that you should keep him in mind,

  mortal man that you care for him?

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

  Yet you have made him little less than a god;

  with glory and honour you crowned him,

  gave him power over the works of your hand,

  put all things under his feet.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

  All of them, sheep and cattle,

  yes, even the savage beasts,

  birds of the air, and fish

  that make their way through the waters.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

Romans 5:1-5 | To God, through Christ, in love poured out through the Holy Spirit.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. But that is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come.

Revelation 1:8

John 16:12-15 | Everything that the Father has in mine; the Spirit will take from what is mine and declare it to you.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘I still have many things to say to you

but they would be too much for you now.

But when the Spirit of truth comes

he will lead you to the complete truth,

since he will not be speaking as from himself

but will say only what he has learnt;

and he will tell you of the things to come.

He will glorify me,

since all he tells you

will be taken from what is mine.

Everything the Father has is mine;

that is why I said:

All he tells you

will be taken from what is mine.’

Scripture readings taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, and used by permission of the publishers