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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Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity Moscow
September 25, 2014
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Football w. Fr. Matt
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October 2, 8:30pm 
Come to the Farnsworth House to watch the Packers take on the Vikings on October 2 at 8:30pm. The Farnsworth House is located on Farnsworth Avenue across from the city Memorial.
Along with the great game and better friends, it will also be Thirsty Thursday for Bordentown's Bravest! It's a guaranteed good time.
Remember that your first beverage is on Fr. Matt, and $1 from every beverage sold goes to our city's fire companies.
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Cranberry Festival
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October 4-5
The Cranberry Festival is coming! It's almost time once again for one of the City's best loved festivals and one of our most successful fundraising events of the year. Volunteers will be needed to staff the table and to provide baked goods and fudge for sale. Christ Church bakers and candymakers have a well-earned reputation for having some of the best goodies to be found at the Cranberry Festival, and there are quite a few Festival regulars who come to our table each year looking for their favorites. A detailed sheet with tips for bakers and our Christ Church Easy Fudge recipe and sign up sheets are at the table at the rear of the sanctuary, so please let us know if you can help. Please note: if you're bringing baked goods or fudge, please bring them to the Christ Church table at Farnsworth and West Church Street (in front of the book store) between 9:00 and 10:00 on the morning of the 5th.
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Spaghetti Dinner & 50/50
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Join us for a night of great food and fellowship! Dinner begins at 6:00 and the 50/50 draws at 7:00. We're once again serving a parish favorite - spaghetti with sauce made by our own Matthew McElmoyl! Tickets for the dinner are $8 per person or $20 for a family. Come hungry, enjoy some great food and fellowship, and perhaps go home with full pockets. We hope to see everyone there!
Desserts are needed for the dinner, as are volunteers are needed to help cook and serve dinner. Please contact Fr. Matt if you're able to help by bringing a dessert or helping with dinner.
Friday, October 24, 2014
6:00 p.m., Dinner; 7:00 p.m. 50/50
$8/Dinner ($20/family 
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Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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Every Thursday, 5pm-10pm 
Christ Church has partnered with the Farnsworth House to raise money for our city's fire companies. Come out to the Farnsworth House on Thursday's from 5pm to 10pm, and $1 from any beverage purchase (even coffee and other soft drinks) will go to Consolidated Fire Association and Hope Hose Humane.
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Vox Fidelis
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Schedule for This Season
Nov 2, 7pm: Compline w. Prayers for the Dead
Nov 16, 7pm: Compline & Benediction
Nov 23, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction (in conjunction w. our Choir)
Dec 7, 7pm: Advent Lessons & Carols
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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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October 2, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt (Farnsworth House) October 4-5: Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave) October 5, 9:15am: Blessing of the Animals October 18: 9/11 Memorial Trip October 24: Spaghetti Dinner October 31: Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Ordination of the Rev. Dr. Alan K. Salmon (St. Mary's) November 2, 7pm: Compline w. Vox Fidelis Every Thursday, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest at the Farnsworth House. |
The Propers
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For Sunday, September 28
This Sunday is the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32
Psalm 25:3-9 NT: Philippians 2:1-13
Collect: O God, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running to obtain thy promises, may be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
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The Music
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For Sunday, September 28Ordinary - Communion Service in E flat - LJ White
Organ - Prelude from Prelude, Fugue & Variation - César Franck
Anthem - Call to remembrance - Richard Farrant
Organ - Trumpet Tune in D Major - David Johnson
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, September 28
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
9:30am: Andy Law & Ed Ackerman
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
9:30am: Open
Acolytes:8am: Wayne Voorhees & Richard Trout
9:30am: Mary Ellen Carty, Andy Jones, Chris Neal
Altar Guild:
Preparation: Carol Hensley
Linens: Anne Lyon
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Quote of the Week
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"Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not."
~Edward Bouverie Pusey
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Church Schedule
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Saturday, 27 September :: The Vigil of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Cosmas & Damian, Martyrs, 287)
ˇ 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 28 September :: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
ˇ 9:00 a.m. - Adult Ed (Parish Hall)
ˇ 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
ˇ 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Monday, 29 September :: St. Michael & All Angelsˇ Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 30 September :: Jerome, Priest & Monk of Bethlehem, 420
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
ˇ 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Wednesday, 1 October :: Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, 530 ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) ˇ 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
ˇ No Rosary or Mass - Fr. Matt at Continuing Education
ˇ 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 2 October :: The Holy Guardian Angels
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led ˇ 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing for Healing (Lady Chapel)
ˇ 8:30 p.m. - Football w. Fr. Matt (Farnsworth House)
Friday, 3 October :: Therese of Lisieux, 1897
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
ˇ 12:00 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 4 October :: The Vigil of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (St. Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226)
ˇ 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave)
ˇ 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 5 October :: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
ˇ 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
ˇ 9:15 a.m. - The Blessing of the Animals (Lychgate)
ˇ 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave)
ˇ 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
ˇ 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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September 18, 1884: People pack out the Brooklyn Tabernacle for the funeral of Jerry McAuley, founder of New York's Water Street Mission and a pioneer among American rescue missions.
September 19, 821: Theodulf, poet, scholar, secretary of education, and bishop of Orleans during Charlemagne's reign is buried. He wrote hymns, among which his best remembered is "Gloria Laus et Honor" or "All Glory, Laud and Honor / To thee Redeemer King."
September 19, 1853: Baptist missionary pioneer J. Hudson Taylor sets sail from England for China at the age of 21.
September 19, 1888: Missionary Jonathan Goforth begins a tour of the North Honan region of China, where he would spend the rest of his life preaching, establishing churches, and ministering to the needy.
September 19, 1955: Mission Aviation pilot Nate Saint spots the Auca villages in the Amazon jungle. The Auca massacred him and his companions on January 6, 1956.
September 20, 1224: On or about this date, on Italy's secluded Mount Alvernia, Francis of Assisi reportedly prayed, "O Lord, I beg of you two graces before I die-to experience in myself in all possible fullness the pains of your cruel passion, and to feel for you the same love that made you sacrifice yourself for us." Soon his heart was filled with both joy and pity, and wounds appeared on his hands, feet, and side. He reportedly carried these scars (called stigmata) until his death in 1226.
September 20, 1565: Spanish sea captain Menendez reportedly wipes out French Huguenots in Florida.
September 20, 1883: Albrecht Alt, German Lutheran scholar of the Old Testament, is born in Stuebach, Bavaria. His book Biblia Hebraica, which he edited with R. Kittel, became the standard critical text of the Old Testament for Bible students.
September 23, 1595: Led by Fray Juan de Silva, the Spanish begin an intensive missionary campaign in the American southeast. In the following two years, 1,500 Native Americans in the area of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina convert to the Catholic faith.
September 23, 1857: Layman-turned-evangelist Jeremiah C. Lanphier holds a lunchtime prayer meeting for businessmen on Fulton Street in New York City. At first, no one shows up, but by the program's third week, the 40 participants requested daily meetings. Other cities begin similar programs, and a revival-sometimes called "The Third Great Awakening"-catches fire across America.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | |
St. Finbar
Bishop & Abbot, 620
He was the son of an artisan and a lady of the Irish royal court. Born in Connaught, Ireland, and baptized Lochan, he was educated at Kilmacahil, Kilkenny, where the monks named him Fionnbharr (white head) because of his light hair; he is also known as Bairre and Barr. He went on pilgrimage to Rome with some of the monks, visiting St. David in Wales on the way back. Supposedly, on another visit to Rome the Pope wanted to consecrate him a bishop but was deterred by a vision, notifying the pope that God had reserved that honor to Himself, and Finbar was consecrated from heaven and then returned to Ireland. At any rate, he may have preached in Scotland, definitely did in southern Ireland, lived as a hermit on a small island at Lough Eiroe, and then, on the river Lee, founded a monastery that developed into the city of Cork, of which he was the first bishop. His monastery became famous in southern Ireland and attracted numerous disciples. Many extravagant miracles are attributed to him, and supposedly, the sun did not set for two weeks after he died at Cloyne about the year 633. His feast day is September 25th.
--Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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Of your charity, please pray for:
the sick: Steve Vigh, Paula Flesch, Bob Bernard, Alice Ward Carriger, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Kelly Jones, Ardelle Zervous, Kelley Gilger, Lynn Ford, Michael Slaper, Jim Tranter, Nancy Dix, Sister Gussie, Jennifer Vigh, Patty Beddia, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner, Nancy Biocco, Lorraine Kunkel, Joseph Varga, Geobel Marin, Jane Humble, Michael Chahanovich, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Greg Cole, Gary Rutherford, Jackie Papp, Morgan Ackerman, Lorriane Sickels, and Nicole Pelligra.
and those who have long term illnesses: Jean Weitzel, John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Kevin Kintner, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Karen Campbell Hillman, Carla Douglas, Richard Cook, Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, 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, Linda Sue Slone, R. Loraine Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Patricia Dixon, Mackenzie Sutter, John Lobos, Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay,Roberta Cash, Patti Baddia.
for those in military service: Ben Skarzynski, USMC; Maxwell W. Warrack, USMC; Col Kelly Scott, USAF; Neil Gerrish, USNG; Abbygale Albert, USN, CSM John Seelhorst, USA, James F. Preto, USNG.
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St. John's Avalon
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Remember to pray for the parish and people of St. John's by the Sea in Avalon, on whose board sits our own Dave Mohr. Fr. Matt spends two weeks a year serving the people of St. John's. You can read about St. John's here: http://www.stjohnsavalon.org
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| Sermon Blog | | Domine, non sum dignus
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http://etsanabituranimamea.wordpress.com
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