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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
Spaghetti Dinner
Football w. Fr. Matt
Fr. Salmon
Compline w. Vox Fidelis
All Souls
Citrus!
Acolyte Practice
Church Boiler
Fundraising
Thirsty Thurdays for Bordentown's Bravest
Electronic Giving
Upcoming Events
The Propers
The Music
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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St. James of Jerusalem
October 23, 2014

Spaghetti Dinner & 50/50
Friday, October 24, 6pm

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
 

Football w. Fr. Matt
Thursday, October 30, 8:30pm

Come to the Farnsworth House to watch the Saints take on the Panthers on October 30 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.
 
Fr. Salmon's 50th Ordination Anniversary Event
Friday, October 31, 7pm at St. Mary's Burlington

Come celebrate Fr. Salmon's 50 years of faithful service in the sacred priesthood. St. Mary's will host the Mass and the following reception, beginning at 7pm. Bishop Stokes will be in attendance as well. Fr. Salmon is a great friend of Christ Church.
Compline w. Vox Fidelis
Sunday, November 2, 7pm

Join us
at 7pm on Sunday, October 6, for Sung Sarum Compline with Vox Fidelis.

Beautiful worship followed by a reception in the Rectory!  

The Solemnity of All Souls
Monday, November 3, 7pm 

A requiem Mass will be said for the Solemnity of All Souls on Monday, November 3, at 7pm in the Lady Chapel. The solemnity is transferred to the 3rd this year because the 2nd of November falls on a Sunday.

Intentions Sheets can be found at the back of the Nave so to list those departed for whom our prayers are to be offered on All Soul's. You may also call the Office with names or email them to Fr. Matt at [email protected].   
Citrus!
           
orangeOur Citrus Fruit Sale is now underway and we will be taking orders  through November 16. Delicious and juicy Tangelos, along with Pink Grapefruit and Navel Oranges will be available before the holiday season. The fruit is picked, packed and shipped Grade A fancy fruit within 72 hours. If you have any questions, please call Andy Law at 298-9171 or Donna Kirk at the church office 298-2348.

Acolyte Practice
November 9, 11:15amOrder of St. Vincent

Fr. Matt is looking for a few good men, women, and children to join the Order of St. Vincent this Fall. Adults and children 12 and older are welcome and encouraged to
become acolytes.

Take the opportunity this fall to learn how to serve at the altar! Serving at the altar is a simple but remarkably rewarding way to serve our Lord.   
 
Sunday, 10/19, 11:15am - 11:30.                           

Church Boiler
           

Our church boiler, unfortunately, needs to be replaced. We have contracted with Liberty Mechanical Services to dismantle and remove and H.B. Smith boiler installed in 1996. The new equipment has been ordered and will be installed soon. To provide funding for this project, the Vestry has approved a withdraw of up to $70,000 from the Capital Fund portion of our investments. We are most grateful for the generosity of our benefactors whose stewardship to our parish have built the Capital Fund to be used for major projects. Thank you for your patience as we complete this project.

Help Bring Cheer to Juvenile Cancer Patients

Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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.  

Electronic Giving
 

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.

Upcoming Events

October 24: Spaghetti Dinner   

October 28: Dinner w. the Rector  

October 30, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt 

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    

November 3, 7pm: Mass for All Souls 

November 8-9: Railroad Days

November 11, 7pm: Burlington Convocation Mtg (Mount Holly) 

November 13, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt 

November 16, 7pm: Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis

November 23, 4pm: Solemn Evensong for Christ the King  

November 26, 7:30pm: Interfaith Thanksgiving Service (TUMC)  

November 27, 10am: Thanksgiving Day Mass  

November 29, 9am: Altar Guild Workshop & Advent Prep Day 

 

Every Thursday, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest at the Farnsworth House.  

The Propers
For Sunday, October 26

This Sunday is the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

OT: Exodus 22:21-27   
Psalm 1
NT:  1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46

  

Collect:
  Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen  
The Music
For Sunday, October 26

Ordinary - - Communion Service in E flat - LJ White
Organ - Prelude on 'Melcombe' - Healey Willan
Anthem - Here O my Lord, I see thee face to face - Percy Whitlock
Organ - Praise the Lord with the Drums and Cymbals - Sigfrid Karg-Elert
 
Serving This Week
For Sunday, October 26                         
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Barbara Fusco
10am: Donna Lundeen & Andy Law

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Open

Acolytes:

8am: Wayne Voorhees & Richard Trout
10am: Mary Ellen Carty, Chris Neal, Brittani Kintner

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Carol Hensley
Linens: Kate Williamson 
Quote of the Week
 

"Come on up for the Rising; come on up, lay your hands in mine."
                                         ~ Bruce Springsteen 

Church Schedule
The Week of October 26, 2014 
 
Saturday, 25 October :: The Vigil of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
� 11:00 a.m. - Slaper Burial (Churchyard)
� 4:00 p.m. - Baptism (Baptistry)

� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 26 October :: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church) 

� 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
� 8:50 a.m. - Ask Fr. Matt (Classrooms)
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 27 October :: Feria
Church Office Closed

Tuesday, 28 October :: Sts. Simon & Jude, Apostles
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) 
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
 
� 12:30 p.m. - VTS Alumni Luncheon (Parish Hall)  
� 6:00 p.m. - Dinner w. the Rector (Parish Hall)   
 
Wednesday, 29 October :: James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and His Companions, Martyrs, 1885
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (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, 30 October :: Feria
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led     
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing for Healing (Lady Chapel)
� 8:30 p.m. - Football w. Fr. Matt (Farnsworth House)   
 
Friday, 31 October :: The Vigil of All Saints (Halloween)
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) 
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) 

� 7:00 p.m. - Fr. Salmon Anniversary (St. Mary's) 
 
Saturday, 1 November :: All Saints' Day
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 2 November :: All Saints' Sunday
� 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. - Compline w. Vox Fidelis (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.

This Week in Church History

 

October 15, 1880: Germany's Cologne cathedral is completed, 633 years after construction began.

 

October 15, 1932: A small party of supporters gathers in Liverpool, England, to send Gladys Aylward, a 28-year-old parlormaid, off on a dangerous missionary journey to China. Though she'd been turned down by the missions agency she applied to, she went on to become one of the most amazing single woman missionaries of modern history. Her dramatic rescue of a hundred orphans is told in the movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman.

 

October 16, 1311: The Council of Vienne opens to decide if the Templars, a military order sworn to protect Christian pilgrims, are heretical and too wealthy. Pope Clement V decided to suppress the order. Its leader was burned and members' possessions taken by the church. That decision was adamantly derided by the poet Dante and by later historians.

 

October 16, 1859: Militant messianic abolitionist John Brown leads a group of about 20 men in a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). Brown believed that only violent action would end slavery and that a massive slave uprising would bring God's judgment upon unrepentant American Southerners. Furthermore, he believed that God had anointed him as the cleansing agent for his country's sin. But when the slaves around Harper's Ferry failed to rally to Brown's cause, he was overpowered. He was arrested, tried, and hanged.

 

October 17, 108: According to tradition, Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was martyred on this date. The Apostolic Father closest in thought to the New Testament writers, Ignatius wrote seven letters under armed guard on his way to Rome-some asking that the church not interfere with his "true sacrifice".

 

October 18, 1405: Enea Silvio Piccolomini (a.k.a. Pope Pius II) is born at Corsignano, Italy. Though faulted for taking radical and sometimes contradictory positions on issues, he was one of the best popes of his age: he wrote an important study of geography and ethnography, a popular love story, and an autobiography. He died in 1464 while planning a battle against the Turks, who controlled Constantinople.

 

October 18, 1867: The United States purchases Alaska for $7.2 million, or about 2 cents an acre. Ten years later, after lax military administration had only worsened the territory's moral condition, an army private stationed in Alaska begged, "Send out a shepherd who may reclaim a mighty flock from the error of their ways, and gather them into the true fold." Presbyterian missionary Sheldon Jackson answered the call and spent decades raising funds, building schools and churches, and crusading for better laws.

 

October 19, 1720: Quaker minister John Woolman is born in Roncocas, New Jersey. He was known for his concerns to live a simple life exemplifying "the right use of things," and to end war, slavery, and injustice toward the poor and to Native Americans. His journal, written from 1756-72, influenced nineteenth-century abolitionists and demonstrated his concern for both the oppressors and the oppressed.

 

October 19, 1856: A Sunday evening service led by Charles Haddon Spurgeon turns tragic when someone shouts "Fire!" in London's enormous Surrey Hall. There was no fire, but the stampede left 7 people dead and 28 more hospitalized. Though the episode plunged Spurgeon into weeks of depression, it also catapulted him to overnight fame.

 

October 20, 751: Pepin the Short, son of Frankish hero Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne, deposes the last of the Merovingian kings and becomes the first king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II, who later asked for his help when threatened by Lombards of northern Italy. Pepin defeated the Lombards, then ceded the territory he captured back to the pope, laying the foundation for the papal states.

 

October 21, 1663: Virginia colonist John Harlow is fined 50 pounds of tobacco for missing church.

 

October 21, 1692: William Penn is deposed as governor of Pennsylvania. His grateful overtures to James II for permitting religious freedom for Dissenters from the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist. They were also troubled by his pacifism.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Wolfgang
Bishop, 994                   

 

Wolfgang was a bishop and reformer. Born in Swabia, Germany, he studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the Benedictines at Einsiedeln (964) and was appointed head of the monastery school, receiving ordination in 971. He then set out with a group of monks to preach among the Magyars of Hungary, but the following year (972) was named bishop of Regensburg by Emperor Otto II (r. 973-983). As bishop, he distinguished himself brilliantly for his reforming zeal and his skills as a statesman. He brought the clergy of the diocese into his reforms, restored monasteries, promoted education, preached enthusiastically, and was renowned for his charity and aid to the poor, receiving the title Eleemosynarius Major (Grand Almoner). He also served as tutor to Emperor Henry II (r. 1014-1024) while he was still king. Wolfgang died at Puppingen near Linz, Austria. He was canonized in 1052 by Pope St. Leo IX (r. 1049-1054). Feast day: October 31.

-Catholic Saints & Angels 
Parish Prayer List

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, 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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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,

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