Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost	October 4, 2026
Prayer of the Day
Generously pardon and give peace to your faithful people, O Lord, that being cleansed from every sin, we may be free and glad to serve; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
First Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7 
1Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? 5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Psalm 80:7-18*
7Restore us, O | God of hosts;*
	show the light of your countenance, and we | shall be saved.
8You have brought a vine | out of Egypt;*
	you cast out the nations and | planted it.
9You prepared the | ground for it;*
	it took root and | filled the land.
10The mountains were covered | by its shadow*
	and the towering cedar trees | by its boughs.
11You stretched out its tendrils | to the sea*
	and its branches | to the river.
12Why have you broken | down its wall,*
	so that all who pass by pluck | off its grapes?
13The wild boar of the forest has | ravaged it,*
	and the beasts of the field have | grazed upon it.
14Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven; behold and | tend this vine;*
	preserve what your right | hand has planted.
15They burn it with | fire like rubbish;*
	at the rebuke of your countenance | let them perish.
16Let your hand be upon the man of | your right hand,*
	the son of man you have made so strong | for yourself.
17And so will we never turn a- | way from you;*
	give us life, that we may call up- | on your Name.
18Restore us, O Lord | God of hosts;*
	show the light of your countenance, and we | shall be saved.
Psalm 80:7-19* (ESV)
7Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
8You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
9You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
11It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
12Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
17But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
18Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!
19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Second Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14 
4bIf anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — 10that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Gospel: Matthew 21:33-46
33{Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people,} “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
Next Week’s Readings:
Isaiah 25:6-9; Psalm 23; Philippians 4:4-13; Matthew 22:1-14
* The Book of Common Prayer verse numbers for this psalm are different from the numbering in the ESV.