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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The Holy Guardian Angels
October 2, 2014
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Football w. Fr. Matt
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Tonight, 8:30pm 
Come to the Farnsworth House tonight to watch the Packers take on the Vikings 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 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, October 5
This Sunday is the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Isaiah 5:1-7
Psalm 80:7-14 NT: Philippians 3:14-21
Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son 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, October 5 Ordinary - Missa di Sancta Maria Magdalena - Healey Willan
Organ -Ciacona in f minor - Johann Pachelbel
Anthem - Teach me, O Lord - Thomas Attwood
Organ - Trumpet Tune in D Major - Jeremiah Clarke
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, October 5
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
9:30am: Donna Lundeen & Bill Collom
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
9:30am: Anne Lyon
Acolytes:8am: Wayne Voorhees & Richard Trout
9:30am: Mary Ellen Carty, Andy Jones, Chris Neal
Altar Guild:
Preparation: Carol Hensley
Linens: Kate Williamson
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Quote of the Week
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"Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshiping an idol."
~ Stanley Hauerwas
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Church Schedule
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Saturday, 4 October :: The Vigil of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (St. Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226)
· 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave)
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 5 October :: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 9:15 a.m. - The Blessing of the Animals (Lychgate)
· 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Monday, 6 October :: William Tyndale, Priest, 1536· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 7 October :: Holy Rosary of the BVM
· No Services - VTS Convocation
Wednesday, 8 October :: Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, 530 · No Services - VTS Convocation · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 9 October :: Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led · 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing for Healing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 10 October :: Paulinus, First Archbishop of York, 644
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:00 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 11 October :: The Vigil of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Motherhood of the BVM)
· 11:00 a.m. - Baptism (Baptistry)
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 12 October :: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 9:00 a.m. - Adult Ed (Parish Hall)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 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 26, 1460: Pope Pius II assembles European leaders, then delivers a three-hour sermon to inspire them to launch a new crusade against the Turks. The speech works, but then another speaker, Cardinal Bessarion, adds a three-hour sermon of his own. After six hours of preaching, the European princes lose all interest in the cause; they never mount the called-for crusade.
September 26, 1897: Charles C. Overton, a Sunday school superintendent at Brighton Chapel, Staten Island, spontaneously promotes the idea of a Christian flag. The Rally Day speaker hadn't shown up, so Overton gave an extemporaneous address on Christian meanings for the elements of the American flag. The red, white, and blue cross flag Overton later helped devise was first sewn around 1907 and continues to be used in some churches.
September 27, 1540: Pope Paul III officially approves the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola.
September 27, 1660: Vincent de Paul (b. 1581) dies. After giving his life to serving the poor, he founded the first Confraternity of Charity in 1617, the Congregation of the Mission in 1625, and the Daughters of Charity in 1633 (the first non-monastic womens' order completely given to care of the sick and poor). Canonized in 1737, he was named patron saint of all charitable works in 1885.
September 27, 1805: George Mueller, English philanthropist, is born near Magdeburg, Germany. Converted under the Moravians, he devoted his life to caring for orphans.
September 27, 1944: Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and the most famous female evangelist of her day, dies.
September 28, 929: King Wenceslas, ruler and patron saint of Czechoslovakia dies. During his brief reign as king before his brother murdered him, Wenceslas sought peace with surrounding nations, reformed the judicial system, and showed particular concern for his country's poor.
September 28, 1839: Frances E. Willard, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 to her death in 1898, is born in New York. She was influential in the passage of both the 18th and 19th Amendments.
September 29, 1413: Archbishop Arundel condemned Sir John Oldcastle, a follower of John Wycliffe, of heresy. He was given 40 days to recant, during which he escaped and hid in Wales. He remained hidden for a year, until the offer of a large reward prompted someone to betray him. He was then captured and roasted to death.
September 29, 1978: Three weeks after being elected, Pope John Paul I dies while reading a devotional in bed.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | |
St. Abigail
Abbess, 6th Century
Irish abbess and disciple of St. Abban. When St. Abban founded a convent in Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland, Gobnata was placed in charge. A well there bears her name.
--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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