Almighty God,
you have made us for yourself,
and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you:
pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself,
and so bring us at last to your heavenly city
where we shall see you face to face;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isaiah 5.1\u20137<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 Let me sing for my beloved 3<\/sup> And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem 5<\/sup> And now I will tell you 7<\/sup> For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts Matthew 21.33\u201346<\/p>\n\n\n\n 33<\/sup>\u2018Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34<\/sup>When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35<\/sup>But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36<\/sup>Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37<\/sup>Finally he sent his son to them, saying, \u201cThey will respect my son.\u201d 38<\/sup>But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, \u201cThis is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.\u201d 39<\/sup>So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40<\/sup>Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\u2019 41<\/sup>They said to him, \u2018He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n 42<\/sup>Jesus said to them, \u2018Have you never read in the scriptures: 45<\/sup>When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46<\/sup>They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All collects and readings appointed for this day as well as the orders of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer can be found at almanac.oremus.org\/2020-10-04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday 4th October – 17th Sunday after Trinity Collect Almighty God,you have made us for yourself,and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you:pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself,and so bring us at last to your heavenly citywhere we shall see you face to face;through Jesus Christ … <\/p>\n
my love-song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2<\/sup> He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watch-tower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard.
4<\/sup> What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.
6<\/sup> I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
he expected justice,
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness,
but heard a cry!<\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord\u2019s doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes\u201d?
43<\/sup>Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.44<\/sup>The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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