The Wayside Cross in front of St. Martin's Church

Prime Timers

The Prime Timers were a Bible study group at St. Martin's for eight years. One of the goals of our founder, Jackie Rose, was to have a weekly web page for the group and all the pages are still online here. The group disbanded but the readings below are being kept up to date.

Lectionary readings

The Readings for Sunday, June 16 are from Lectionary Year C, First Sunday after Pentecost: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8 or Canticle 13 (or Canticle 2); Romans 5:1-5 and John 16:12-15. The text is from the Bible Study Tools - New International Version.

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

¹ Does not wisdom call out?
     Does not understanding raise her voice?

² At the highest point along the way,
     where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

³ beside the gate leading into the city,
     at the entrance, she cries aloud:

⁴ “To you, O people, I call out;
     I raise my voice to all mankind.

²² “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works,
     before his deeds of old;

²³ I was formed long ages ago,
     at the very beginning, when the world came to be.

²⁴ When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,
     when there were no springs overflowing with water;

²⁵ before the mountains were settled in place,
     before the hills, I was given birth,

²⁶ before he made the world or its fields
     or any of the dust of the earth.

²⁷ I was there when he set the heavens in place,
     when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,

²⁸ when he established the clouds above
     and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,

²⁹ when he gave the sea its boundary
     so the waters would not overstep his command,

and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
     ³⁰ Then I was constantly at his side.

I was filled with delight day after day,
     rejoicing always in his presence,

³¹ rejoicing in his whole world
     and delighting in mankind.

Psalm 8

¹ LORD, our Lord,
     how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory in the heavens.

² Through the praise of children and infants
     you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
     to silence the foe and the avenger.

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
     the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
     human beings that you care for them?

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels
     and crowned them with glory and honor.

⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
     you put everything under their feet:

⁷ all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
     ⁸ the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea,
      all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ LORD, our Lord,
     how majestic is your name in all the earth!

or Canticle 13 (or Canticle 2)

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 forever.

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 forever.

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 forever.

Romans 5:1-5

¹ Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

John 16:12-15

Jesus said to the disciples, ¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

Thanks to Bible Study Tools for today's text.