Pew Sheet 4th October 2026
Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Castleside
18TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Proper 22
4th. October 2026
For details of services and enquiries for Baptisms and Weddings please contact our churchwarden, Mrs. Jane Fraser.
@ 07568 431436
Safeguarding officer Mrs. Jane Fraser. 07568 431436
Service in St. John’s Church 9am.
Collect:
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith
that, forsaking what lies behind
and reaching out to that which is ahead
we may run the way of your commandments
and win the crown of everlasting joy;
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. AMEN.
Gospel acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind, AlleluiaAll communicant members of any Christian Church are welcome to share in receiving communion and non-communicants are invited to receive a blessing.
We do not take a collection by passing the plate during the service but there is a plate at the back of church for your offerings towards the work of this church in our community. Thank you.
FIRST READING Isaiah 5.1–7
A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
1 Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
2 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.
3 And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 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?
5 And 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.
6 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.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts 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!
SECOND READING Philippians 3.4b–14
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Philippians.
4 If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, 9 not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
GOSPEL Matthew 21.33–46
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: 33 ‘Listen 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 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ 41 They said to him, ‘He 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.’
42 Jesus 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 amazing in our eyes”?
43 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 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.’
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46 They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the Flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his Blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his Body, and our souls washed through his most precious Blood, And that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
Hymns
Please look at the notice board behind the pulpit.
Midweek Service
27th Week in Ordinary Time
Roman Missal page 1189
Red Missal 1235
Response to the Psalm
Go out to the whole world , Proclaim the good news
Next Sunday is the 19th Sunday after Trinity
Our Harvest Festival
The meetings of the Knit and Natter Group and the Bereavement Group have been suspended until Jean has regained the strength to be able to drive again with confidence.
Sunday 11th October is our Harvest Festival
Please think about the gifts that you bring to the service. We think that this year our gifts might be donated to the Consett Food Bank which helps the very poorest in our community with essential food and hygiene products