The Readings For May 22, Trinity Sunday, 2016

First Reading: 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

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!

Second Reading: 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

[Jesus said,] 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.”