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Prayer for Christ Church
Almighty and everliving God, ruler of all things in heaven and earth, hear our prayers for Christ Church Parish. Strengthen the faithful, arouse the  careless, and restore the penitent. Grant us all things necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

In This Issue
Parish Work Day
Rogation
Spring Raffle
Upcoming Events
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Thunder Game
Food Pantry Items Needed
Lectors & Ushers Welcome
Blessing of the Firetrucks
The Propers
Serving This Week
Quote of the Week
Church Schedule
This Week in Church History
Saint of the Week
Parish Prayer List
Sermon Blog
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Ss. Philip & James
May 1, 2014

Parish Work Day
Saturday, May 3, 9am

Come help beautify the parish grounds on the morning of Saturday, May 3rd. Coffee, donuts, and lunch provided!  

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Rogation w. Vox Fidelis
Sunday, May 4, 6pm

Celebrate the Spring Rogation with Vox Fidelis on Sunday, May 4, at 6pm.   "Rogation" comes from the Latin "rogare," which means "to ask," and "Rogation Days" are days during which we seek to ask God's mercy and ask for His blessings, particularly with regard to farming, gardening, and other agricultural pursuits. 

Because of this, it is especially appropriate to bless farm and garden implements, so feel free to bring representative equipment to be blessed. A light reception will follow in the Rectory.

P.S. - If you or someone you know wishes to have farm equipment blessed on the farm, please let Fr. Matt know. He would be happy to bless equipment, seeds, etc.

Spring Raffle & Reception
After Evensong & Benediction - June 1, 4pm

Mark Your Calendars for the Spring 50/50 Raffle - tickets will be distributed later in April for our Spring 50/50 Raffle, which will be drawn on Sunday, June 1 following Evensong and Benediction on the Blessed Sacrament. We hope to see everyone there!

Upcoming Events
 

May 3, 8:30am: Parish Work Day

May 4, 6pm: Rogation Procession w. Vox Fidelis

May 29, 10am: Ascension Day Mass

May 10, 10am-7pm: Iris Festival (302 Farnsworth) 

May 11, 8am: First Holy Communion

May 11, 9am: Mother's Day Breakfast

May 11, 10am: May Crowning

May 17&18: Street Fair 

May 24, 11am: Memorial Day Solemnities

May 31, 5:30pm: Feast of the Visitation

June 1, 10am: Church School Recognition & 1st Holy Communion 

June 1, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction w. Reception & Raffle 

June 21, 7pm: Trenton Thunder Game

July 3, 4pm: Bordentown Fireworks

Birthdays & Anniversaries
 

May Birthdays

4 Karly Luthke

11 Karen Sutter

11 Stephanie Mickus

12 Christopher Vlahovic

12 Juliana Cartwright

15 Janet Atkinson

21 Ian Cartwright

22 Robert J. Kintner

24 Zachary Kintner

24 Debbie Mallard

31 Lisa Moscatiello

 

May Anniversaries

2 Mark & Karen Casais

30 Kate Williamson & Susan Preston

Trenton Thunder Game
 
The Church School is planning its
annual trip to see the Trenton
Thunder. This year's game is on June
21st. Church School kids and teachers go for free, and kids can bring a friend for free as well, through the generosity of a parishioner. Tickets for adults are $8.00. A sign up sheet is on the bulletin
board next to the office.
Food Pantry Items Needed

The Good Neighbor Guild Food Pantry is always in need of cereal,  tuna, pasta, peanut butter and jelly, Chef Boyardee, canned soups w. meat, and canned fruits and vegetables. Please remember the poor when you do your grocery shopping. 

New Lectors & Ushers Welcome!

If you're interested in serving as a lector or usher at either of the Sunday masses, we'd live to have you. Serving is easy and it's a wonderful ministry to assist with worship. If you're interested and willing to be scheduled once a month, please contact the parish office or email Kate Williamson at [email protected].

Blessing of the Fire Trucks

We'll be kicking off our planning for this year's Blessing of the Fire Trucks shortly after Easter, and we're going to need plenty of volunteers to help plan and organize the event. If you're interested in helping, please contact Kate Williamson at [email protected].

The Propers
For Sunday, May 4

This Sunday is Third Sunday of Easter

OT:
Acts 2:14, 36-47 
Psalm 116:10-17
NT: 1 Peter 1:17-23
Gospel: Luke 24:13-35
 
Collect:
  O God, whose blessed Son did manifest himself to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open, we pray thee, the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.   Amen.
Serving This Week
For Sunday, May 4        
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Susan Preston & Donna Lundeen
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees & Jack Hartz
10am: Susan Preston

Acolytes:

8am: Wayne Voorhees & Richard Trout
10am: Eva Lundeen, Andy Jones, Chris Neal

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Vinnie Stout
Linens: Anne Lyon 
Quote of the Week

"I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy."
                                              ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen 

Church Schedule
The Week of May 4, 2014

Saturday, 3 May :: The Vigil of the Third Sunday of Easter (The Finding of the Holy Cross, 335)
� 8:30 p.m. - Parish Work Day (Churchyard) 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 4 May :: The Third Sunday of Easter
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church) 

� 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)    
� 6:00 p.m. - Rogation Solemnities w. Vox Fidelis (Church)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)


Monday, 5 May :: Conversion of St. Augustine
Church Office Closed

Tuesday, 6 May :: St. John Before the Latin Gate 
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)  
 
Wednesday, 7 May :: John of Beverly, Bishop of York, 721
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel)
� 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
� 6:30 p.m. - Rosary (Lady Chapel)
� 6:50 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) 
� 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Thursday, 8 May :: Dame Julian of Norwich, 1417  
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel) Self-led
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
       
Friday, 9 May :: Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389

Abstinence Dispensed

� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel)
� 12:00 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)  
  
Saturday, 10 May :: The Vigil of the Fourth Sunday of Easter
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 11 May :: The Fourth Sunday of Easter (Mother's Day)
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church) 

� 9:00 a.m. - Mother's Day Breakfast (Parish Hall)
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)    
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

The Parish Office hours are Tuesday-Friday from 8:30am to 2:00pm.

Fr. Matt is available during normal business hours and most evenings. Please don't hesitate to call or stop by the church.

Confession is available by appointment. Please call the Church Office or Fr. Matt to schedule a time.

This Week in Church History

 

April 26, 1521: After Charles V promises to take firmer measures against his doctrines, Luther leaves the Diet of Worms. A month later, his teachings are formally condemned.


April 26, 1877: Residents of Minnesota observe a state-wide Day of prayer, asking deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers that had ruined thousands of acres of crops. The plague ended during that summer.


April 26, 1992: Worshipers celebrate the first Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 years.


April 27, 1667: Blind, bitter, and poor, Puritan poet John Milton sells for ten pounds the copyright for Paradise Lost-a book that would influence English thought and language nearly as much as the King James Version and the plays of Shakespeare. The theme of the epic appears in its opening lines: "Of man's disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden."


April 27, 1775: Moravian minister and missionary Peter Boehler dies. He met John Wesley in 1737 while both were sailing to minister in America, and his assurance of faith and belief in joyous, instantaneous conversion left a permanent mark on Wesley .


April 28, 1789: In the South Pacific, a band of hedonistic sailors stages the famous mutiny on the Bounty. The mutineers then sailed to uninhabited Pitcairn Island, where they soon fell into drinking and fighting. Only one man and several women (taken earlier as slaves) and children survived. The man, Alexander Smith, discovered the ship's neglected Bible, repented, and transformed the community. The Bible is still on display in a Pitcairn church.

 

April 29, 1380: Italian mystic Catherine of Siena dies from exhaustion brought on by her efforts to bring unity to the church. Her visions, experienced since childhood, and her persistent pleading led Pope Gregory XI to return the papal seat to Rome from Avignon, France.

 

April 29, 1429: Joan of Arc, who had experienced mystical visions and voices since childhood, enters the besieged French city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English. The next Day , the English retreated, but, because it was a Sunday , Joan refused to allow any pursuit. On a sortie the next year, the English captured Joan and put her on trial for heresy.

 

April 29, 1607: English settlers establish the first Anglican church in the American colonies at Cape Henry, Virginia.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Marculf
Hermit, 588  
 

Marculf is also known as Marcoul. He was born at Bayeux, Gaul, at noble parents. He was ordained when he was thirty, and did missionary work at Coutances. Desirous of living as a hermit, he was granted land by king Childebert at Nanteuil. He attracted numerous disciples, and built a monastery, of which he was abbot. It became a great pilgrimage center after his death on May 1. St. Marculf was regarded as a patron who cured skin diseases, and as late as 1680, sufferers made pilgrimages to his shrine at Nanteuil and bathed in the springs connected with the church. His feast day is May 1.

 

--Catholic Saints & Angels 

Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick:  Jean Weitzel, Paula Flesch, Bob Bernard, Laura Doan, Alice Ward Carriger,  Laurence Sullivan, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Kelly Jones, Ardelle Zervous, Kelley Gilger, Lynn Ford,  Heidi Kelly, Michael Slaper, Jim Tranter, Nancy Dix, John Lobos, Sister Gussie, Jennifer Vigh, Patty Beddia, Hailey Pfeiffer, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner, Nancy Biocco, Barbara Kianka, Lorraine Kunkel, Geobel Marin, Jane Humble, Michael Chahanovich, Anita Kronstadt, Gloria Law, and Joseph Varga.

 

and those who have long term illnesses:  John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Phillip Cooke, Kevin Kintner, Earl Slaper, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Karen Campbell Hillman,  Amanda Howard, Robert Kelley, Carla Douglas, Stuart Shafer, Richard Cook, Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Chris Kalargheros, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, Kevin Kochie,  Brianne Nicosia, Mario Batist, Treavor Curtis,  Dean Curtis,  Robert Ackerman, Paul Wesley Morrison, Bob Liberman, Kelly Bergen, Bill Yale, Hannah McNinch, Gabe Fresco, Fr. Ted Anderson, Norma Stirpe, Nylah Miles, Hayley Weber, Linda Sue Slone, R. Loraine Burke,  Louis Rodia, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Neil Zingerman, Carol Weishoff,  Patricia Dixon, and Mackenzie Sutter.  

 

those in military service:  Ben Skarzynski, USMC; Maxwell W. Warrack, USMC; Andrew Cooke, USCG; Col Kelly Scott, USAF; Neil Gerrish, USNG; Abbygale Albert, USN; CSM John B. Seelhorst, USA.  

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Grace and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ Church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, His Excellency William H. Stokes, Bishop. Our parish reflects the joy found in Anglo-Catholic worship and tradition, taking the joy and strength found at the Altar and bringing it out into the world in service to our neighbours.    

In Christ,

Fr. Matt+
Rector