Prayer for Christ Church
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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.
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Mass Cancellation
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Tomorrow, Friday, 12:10pm Due to clerical travel, the Mass must be cancelled. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
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Mothers' Day Breakfast Report
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Our annual Mother's Day Breakfast was a lot of fun, with good times and great food. Many thanks to Ed Ackerman and his crew for breakfast (and check out the new chairs)!
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Memorial Day Solemnities
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Saturday, May 24, 11am
Join our city in honoring those who have died while serving in military service on Saturday, May 24, 11am at the city Memorial. 
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Evensong and Spring Raffle Dinner
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Evensong & Benediction - June 1, 4pm 
Raffle tickets have arrived for our Spring Super 50/50 raffle, drawing June 1. It's a short selling season, and tickets have been mailed to all parish households. As usual, prizes will be 25%, 15% and 10% of ticket proceeds, so the more tickets we sell, the bigger the prizes and the more funds we raise for the parish. Winners will be drawn at the picnic following Choral Evensong and Benediction at 4:00 p.m on Sunday, June 1. We're looking forward to a night of beautiful choral music, Benediction and great fellowship and food.
We hope to see you there!
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Calling All Graduates
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Is there a graduate in the family? If so, please phone or email the parish office as soon as possible and no later than Wednesday, May 28, with the name and school (and degree, if applicable). We want to recognize and remember in prayer on Sunday, June 1, all members of the parish who are graduating from either high school or college.
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Electronic Giving
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The Parish has partnered with ADP to provide an alternative way to contribute to the parish through Electronic Giving. This benefits you by making your pledge and occasional giving fast and easy, and the parish will benefit from a reliable, more efficient and more convenient means to process contributions. To sign up for electronic giving, go to our website at www.ccbtown.com, click on the donation link, and you will be able to select from various opportunities to contribute to our parish and activities. If you have any questions regarding the new electronic giving service, please call the parish office at 298-2348.
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Upcoming Events
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May 17&18: Street Fair
May 24, 11am: Memorial Day Solemnities
May 29, 10am: Ascension Day Mass
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
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Trenton Thunder Game
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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.
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Food Pantry Items Needed
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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.
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New Lectors & Ushers Welcome!
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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 katewilliamson@mac.com. |
The Propers
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For Sunday, May 18
This Sunday is Fifth Sunday of Easter
OT: Acts 17:1-15
Psalm 66:1-8NT: 1 Peter 2:1-10
Collect: Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, May 18
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Ed Ackerman & Susan Preston
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
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Quote of the Week
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"Love is metaphysical gravity"
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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Church Schedule
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Saturday, 17 May :: The Vigil of the Fifth Sunday of Easter
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 18 May :: The Fifth Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Classrooms)
· 8:45 a.m. - HomeFront Meal Prep (Kitchen & 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)
Monday, 19 May :: Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 20 May :: Alcuin, Deacon & Abbot of Tours, 804
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel) · 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Wednesday, 21 May :: Feria· 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, 22 May :: Feria · 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel) Self-led
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 23 May :: Vincent of Lerins, Priest, 450
· Abstinence Dispensed
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Regina coeli (Lady Chapel) · 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 24 May :: The Vigil of the Sixth Sunday of Easter
· 11:00 a.m. - Memorial Day Solemnities (City Memorial)
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 25 May :: The Sixth Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Classrooms)
· 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.
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This Week in Church History
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May 8, 1373: English mystic Julian of Norwich receives 15 revelations (she received another the following Day ) in which she saw, among other things, the Trinity and the sufferings of Christ. She recorded her visions and her meditations on them 20 years later in her book The Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.
May 8, 1559: The Act of Uniformity receives Queen Elizabeth I's royal assent, reinstating the forms of worship Henry VIII had ordered and mandating the use of the Book of Common Prayer (1552).
May 8, 1828: Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association, is born in Geneva. He won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
May 8, 1845: The Southern Baptist Convention, one of the largest denominations in America, organizes inAugusta, Georgia.
May 8, 1895: Roman Catholic archbishop and broadcaster Fulton J. Sheen is born in El Paso, Illinois. With his ABC shows "Life is Worth Living" and the "Bishop Sheen Program," he became the most prominent American Catholic of broadcasting's golden era.
May 8, 1915: Henry McNeal Turner, the first black army chaplain in the United States, dies in Windsor, Ontario, embittered toward America for its racism. Many consider him to be the precursor of black theology for his statement, "God is a Negro."
May 9, 1760: Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravian Brethren and a pioneer of ecumenism and mission work, dies in Herrnhut, Germany. By his death the Moravians (which themselves only numbered in the hundreds) had sent out 226 missionaries around the world.
May 9, 1983: Pope John Paul II reverses the Catholic Church's 1633 condemnation of Galileo Galilei's Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe.
May 10, 1310: In Paris, 54 Knights Templar are burned alive. The catholic church created the Templars to protect Holy Land pilgrims from bandits, but the knights' quick rise in power and wealth made them unpopular. Philip the Fair of France against them trumped up charges of blasphemy and homosexuality to convince Pope Clement to disband the order and persecute its members.
May 12, 1861: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," published in the Atlantic Monthly three months earlier, is first performed at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, during a flag-raising ceremony for new Union recruits.
May 13, 1917: Three shepherd children report that the Virgin Mary appeared to them in Fatima, Portugal.
May 13, 1925: Florida's House of Representatives passes a bill requiring schools to conduct daily Bible readings.
May 13, 1963: A.W. Tozer, Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor and devotional author of The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy, dies.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | |
St. Peter of Tarentaise 
Archbishop, 1175
Cistercian archbishop. Peter was born near Vienne, in Dauphine, France, and joined the Cistercian Order at Bonneveaux at the age of twenty with his two brothers and father. Known for his piety, at age thirty he was sent to serve as the first abbot of Tamie, in the Tarantaise Mountains, between Geneva and Savoy. There he built a hospice for travelers. In 1142, he was named the archbishop of Tarantaise against his wishes, and he devoted much energy to reforming the diocese, purging the clergy of corrupt and immoral members, aiding the poor, and promoting education. He is also credited with starting the custom of distributing bread and soup the so called May Bread just before the harvest, a custom which endured throughout France until the French Revolution. After thirteen years as bishop, Peter suddenly disappeared. Eventually he was discovered serving as a lay brother in a Cistercian abbey in Switzerland and was convinced to return to Tarantaise and resume his episcopal duties. Trusted as an advisor by popes and kings, he defended papal rights in France and was called upon to assist in bringing about a reconciliation between King Louis VII of France and then Prince Henry II of England. Peter was canonized in 1191. He should not be confused with Peter of Tarantaise, who became Pope Innocent V.
--Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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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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