The Fifth Sunday after Trinity falls in the early weeks of July, deep in the summer months when the Church's life proceeds in the quiet regularity that Trinity Season is designed to foster. The Collect asks that the course of this world may be peaceably ordered by God's governance, and that his Church may joyfully serve him in all godly quietness — a prayer for the conditions of faithful life: ordered society, civil peace, and the liberty to worship and serve God without fear.

The appointed Epistle from 1 Peter 3 sets out the character of the Christian community in a world that does not always share its values: Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise blessing. The calling to bless rather than retaliate is grounded in the hope of the inheritance of a blessing — and in the promise that the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears open to their prayers.

The appointed Gospel from Luke 5 recounts the call of the fishermen: Simon, James, and John had laboured all night and caught nothing, but at our Lord's word they let down their nets and enclosed a great multitude of fishes. Peter fell at Jesus's knees and said, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. And Jesus said unto him, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. They forsook all and followed him. The call of the disciples is at once a model of apostolic vocation and a parable of divine grace overturning human failure and redirecting it toward purposes larger than the disciples had imagined.