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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Forward the Angelus!
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Remember to forward the Angelus to your friends and family.
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Acolyte Practice
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November 9, 11:15am
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.
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Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis
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Sunday, November 16, 7pm 
Join us at 7pm on Sunday, November 16, for Sung Sarum Compline & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament with Vox Fidelis.
Beautiful worship followed by a reception in the Rectory!
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Fr. Salmon's 50th Ordination Anniversary Event
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Christ the King Evensong & Benediction
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Our Feast of Title: Sunday, November 23
Come celebrate our Feast of Title on Sunday November 23, the Feast of Christ the King, at 4pm with Choral Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by a Potluck in the Parish Hall.
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Citrus!
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 Our 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.
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Empty Your Pockets for Semper Fido
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In the spirit of both the Blessing of the Animals and Veteran's Day coming up in November, we're hoping to raise much needed funds for Semper Fido. Semper Fido, Inc. is registered non-profit committed to helping in the rehabilitation of returning service men and women suffering from traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder while also saving unwanted animals from shelters and rescues. Semper Fido's service dogs often come from rescue groups and shelters, and their work benefits both those who sacrificed themselves for our freedoms, and the dogs that may have had no hope of a forever home.
Returning soldiers who've been paired with service dogs say this it is truly life changing, allowing them to live more full lives and feel more safe and secure each day. Training is intensive and typically takes 6-9 months, during which time Semper Fido provides for their care and feeding in addition to the very rigorous training needed for a dog to work as a service animal. The total cost to train a dog for service work like this averages $10,500, and there are many more service men and women who need them than they can provide for. Their greatest need is funding to pay for the training.
The camouflage coin boxes at the back of the church have a slot cut into them, and we're hoping that you'll take one and drop your loose change (bills are fine too!) into it each day from now through Thanksgiving. A little bit each day adds up quickly, and by the end of November we'll total up the contents of all these boxes and present our collective offering to Semper Fido. When your coin box is full, please bring it to Mass and return it or turn it into the parish office. If you fill a box quickly and want another, we'll have more each week.
Please help us help Semper Fido to continue their mission and give back to the men and women who have given so much to serve our country.
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2015 Fundraising
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We are planning now for our 2015 fundraising activities. Loris Johnson and Darrell Vigh are co-chairing a Gift Basket auction in the fall of 2015. Many hands will be needed to make this a great success. We will need folks to help with all phases of the event, from planning to the actual event. If you would like to help, please reach out to Loris or Darrell. We will also be participating in the Coke rewards program, to earn points that can be redeemed for Gift Cards for the auction. Stay tuned for more information on how you can help with this idea. There are also other fundraising events that we need someone to organize; like the pot luck/spaghetti dinners and raffles. If you are interested in working on these short term events, please contact Darrell.
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2015 Stewardship Materials
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In an effort to save time, paper, and postage, it is our intent to use email to circulate our 2015 Pledge Cards and Stewardship materials. Please email office@ccbtown.com with your updated email information. If you prefer to receive this material in paper form, we will have packets in the back of the Church for pick up. If you are interested in eliminating paper - please see our electronic giving option on the Church's website. Any questions, call the office or Darrell Vigh.
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Church Boiler
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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.
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Altar Guild Workshop & Advent Prep Day
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Saturday, November 29, 9am
An Altar Guild workshop will be held on Saturday morning, November 29, starting at 9:00. Please join us to learn the preparation of vessels and vestments used in our Eucharistic services. We will prepare for the season of Advent as well as polish items to be used during the Christmas season.
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Help Bring Cheer to Juvenile Cancer Patients
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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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HomeFront Ministry
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Once a month the HomeFront Committee prepares a meal for the homeless people residing in local motels. These meals are picked up by a couple from another area church & delivered to the motels. We are always in need of more money, and now, more than ever, as the funds we have been working from are running low. If you able to help us with this cause, you will find specially marked envelopes on the Welcome Table at the entrance to the church. This will allow your contributions to be listed on your end-of-the-year Giving Statement.
In addition to money, we are always in need of help. The workload, as well as the amount of people coming to help, varies from month to month. Sometimes, you will work like crazy. Sometimes you will have some down time to have a coffee & chat in between tasks.
We are also seeking to establish a list of people to call on in advance to cook at home & bring on Sunday morning. For example, maybe you might be asked to cook a couple chickens & dice the meat, or fry up a couple of pounds of ground beef. We will definitely be needing volunteers to cook bone-in turkey breasts for our meal prep on December 21. When such help is needed, you would be called in advance to see if you had the time to help with that month's meal. If you would like to participate in this request, please contact Gloria Jukes (609-883-9895).
Thank you for any help you are able to offer. This is a very worthy cause without any administrative expenses. It allows you to become involved in a very worthwhile effort on whatever scale is works for you.
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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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November 8-9: Railroad Days November 9, 11:15am: Acolyte Practice 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
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For Sunday, November 9
This Sunday is the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Amos 5:18-24
Psalm 70 NT: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Collect: O God, whose blessed Son was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant us, we beseech thee, that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves even as he is pure; that, when he shall appear again with power and great glory, we may be made like unto him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where with thee, O Father, and thee, O Holy Ghost, he liveth and reigneth ever, one God, world without end. Amen
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The Music
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For Sunday, November 9Ordinary - Missa di Sancta Maria Magdalena - Healey Willan
Organ - Rhosymedre - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Anthem - Haste Thee, O God - Adrian Batten
Organ - Prelude & Fugue in C Major - Johann Sebastian Bach
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, November 9
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Mary Ellen Carty & 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: Joan Corbo
Linens: Loris Johnson
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Quote of the Week
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"Oh, may I join the choir invisible,
Of those immortal dead who live again."
~ George Eliot
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Church Schedule
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The Week of November 9, 2014
Saturday, 8 November :: The Vigil of the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (Saints & Martyrs of the Anglican Communion)
· 9:00 a.m. - Railroad Days (Parish Hall)
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 9 November :: The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
· 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. - Acolyte Practice (Church)
· 12:00 p.m. - Railroad Days (Parish Hall)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Monday, 10 November :: Pope St. Leo the Great, 461· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 11 November :: Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
· 7:00 p.m. - Convocation Meeting (St. Andrew's Mount Holly)
· 7:30 p.m. - Vestry Meeting (Sacristy)
Wednesday, 12 November :: Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836· 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, 13 November :: 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, 14 November :: Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 15 November :: The Vigil of the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon, 1280)
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 16 November :: The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & 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. - Compline & Benediction 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.
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This Week in Church History
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October 30, 1451: Christopher Columbus, who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean both to spread Christianity and (as his crew members complained) to "make a great lord of himself," is born.
October 30, 1821: Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevski, whose works (including Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov, and Notes from the Underground) reflect his deep Russian Orthodox faith, is born.
October 30, 1883: Bob Jones, Sr., one of Fundamentalism's most renowned evangelists and founder of Bob Jones University, is born.
November 2, 1164: Thomas a Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, leaves for France for a six-year exile after being condemned in royal court for "ingratitude" toward England's Henry II, who had once been his dear friend.
November 2, 1533: Harried by Catholic authorities, John Calvin flees Paris by lowering himself out a window with a bed-sheet rope and disguising himself as a farmer, complete with a hoe over his shoulder. He spent three years as a fugitive before settling in Geneva.
November 3, 753 (traditional date): Pirminius, the first Abbot of Reichenau (Germany) dies. His pastoral instruction book, Scarapsus, contains the earliest evidence for the present form of the Apostles' Creed.
November 3, 1534: The British Parliament passes the Supremacy Act, officially making England Protestant and putting the English monarch at the head of the nation's church.
November 3, 1600: Richard Hooker, an Anglican rector whose book Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is a classic on the relationship between church and state, dies in England.
November 3, 1966: John Lennon tells reporters that his band, the Beatles, is "more popular than Jesus," touching off a firestorm of controversy.
November 4, 1646: The Massachusetts Bay Colony makes it a capital offense to deny that the Bible is the Word of God.
November 4, 1740: English clergyman Augustus Toplady, author of the hymn "Rock of Ages," is born.
November 4, 1958: Angelo Roncalli becomes Pope John XXIII. Though his papacy was expected to be uneventful, his convening of the Second Vatican Council and his changing of the church's attitudes toward non-Catholics were milestones for Roman Catholics.
--taken from Christianity Today
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St. Serenus the Gardener 
Hermit & Martyr, 302
Hermit and martyr, also called Cerneuf Born in Greece, he supposedly fled to Sirmium (modern Mitrovica, in the Balkans) where he lived as a hermit and became well-known for the beauty of his garden. According to legend, he hid during the persecution of Christians and, upon returning, scolded a woman for wandering in his garden at an inappropriate time. She went home and told her husband, a member of the imperial guard, of the disrespectful treatment she had received. He reported the event to co-Emperor Maximian who ordered a magistrate to look into the matter. Serenus was exonerated for his harsh treatment of the woman, but the magistrate learned that he was a Christian and, as Serenus refused to make sacrifice to the gods, the magistrate ordered him beheaded.
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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, Sister Gussie, Nancy Biocco, Lorraine Kunkel, Jane Humble, Michael Chahanovich, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Greg Cole, Gary Rutherford, Jackie Papp, Morgan Ackerman, Lorriane Sickels, Nicole Pelligra, Cole Carver, Addolorata Martelli, Suzie Mertz, Nancy Hayes, William Sweeney, Fran Gripp, and Raymond Witte.
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, Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay, Roberta Cash, Patti Baddia, Geobel Marin, Jennifer Vigh, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner Nancy Dix, and Jim Tranter.
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; Frank L. Blades, USA.
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