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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Where to Find Us
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Get Your Citrus Order in Now!
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 Our Citrus Fruit Sale is 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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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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Football w. Fr. Matt
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Tonight, 7pm
Come to the Farnsworth House to watch the Bills take on the Dolphins tonnight 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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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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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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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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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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Help Bring Cheer to Juvenile Cancer Patients
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A Good Sign Project
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Are you up for a good challenge?!
MAD Splatter invites you to a MAD creative painting party up-cycling election campaign signs into works of art!
OPEN TO ANYONE AGE 6 & UP
WHEN: Saturday, November 29th
COST: $10.00
Your artwork will not only decorate our hometown during the holiday season, it will also serve as a symbol of our community's effort to support a global movement to HELP GOOD GO VIRAL! 
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Jewelry Fundraiser
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December 7, Between the Masses
Once again, our fellow parishioner Dana Vlahovic will be holding a Jewelry demonstration of her fabulous line, Premier Designs, on December 7th between the 8 and 10:00 masses. If you have attended before you know how great the jewelry is and if you have never seen it, you are in for a delightful surprise. if you can't make it in person, here is Dana's website with an online catalog- which directly connects to her email. So if you can't make it that day, you can peruse the main and Christmas catalog and order directly with Dana in advance. Here is the link to the catalog: dana6.mypremierdesigns.com and the catalog code is Dana. Her email address is on the webpage and they can either email her from there or fill out the attached order form. Dana generously donates all her profits to Christ Church - so come join her either on line or in person to get some holiday shopping done and support Christ Church!
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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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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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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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Bordentown Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
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Wednesday, November 26, 7:30pm
The Bordentown Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held on Wednesday, November 26, at 7:30pm, at Trinity United Methodist Church.
Christ Church will keep our usual schedule that evening of 6:30pm Rosary followed directly by a Low Mass; we will then participate in the Bordentown Service. Join us!
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Thanksgiving Day Mass
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Thursday, November 27, 10am
Come give thanks to the Lord for all the blessings of this life on Thanksgiving Day. 10am Said Mass w. Hymns.
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Upcoming Events
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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 November 29, 5pm: Bordentown City Tree Lighting December 7, 7pm: Advent Lessons & Carols w. Vox Fidelis December 11, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt (Farnsworth House) December 20, 5:30pm: Advent Pageant, Vigil Mass, Pizza Party December 24, 6pm & 11pm: Christmas Eve Masses December 25, 10am: Christmas Day Mass w. Carols January 4, 10am: Christmas Lessons & Carols January 6, 7pm: Sung Mass w. the Blessing of Chalk, Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh Every Thursday, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest at the Farnsworth House. |
The Propers
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For Sunday, November 16
This Sunday is the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Zephaniah 1:7,12-18
Psalm 90:-18,12 NT: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10
Gospel: Matthew 25:14-15,19-29
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The Music
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For Sunday, November 16
Ordinary - Missa di Sancta Maria Magdalena - Healey Willan
Organ - En Forme de Carillon - Theodore Dubois
Anthem -Father, we praise Thee, now the night is over - Willan
Organ - Praeambulum in F Major - Vincent Lübeck
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, November 16
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Barbara Fusco
10am: Ed Ackerman & Anne Lyon
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Anne Lyon
Acolytes:8am: Wayne Voorhees, Richard Trout, Alex Vigh
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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"It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork."
~ C.S. Lewis
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Church Schedule
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The Week of November 16, 2014
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)
Monday, 17 November :: Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 18 November :: Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
· 7:00 p.m. - Dinner w. the Rector (Parish Hall)
Wednesday, 19 November :: Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231· 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, 20 November :: Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led · 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing for Healing (Lady Chapel)
· 12:00 p.m. -VTS Alumni Luncheon (Parish Hall)
Friday, 21 November :: Presentation of the BVM
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 22 November :: The Vigil of Christ the King (Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, 230)
· 1:00 p.m. - Parish Hall Reserved
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 23 November :: The Feast of Christ the King
· 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. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall) · 4:00 p.m. - Evensong & Benediction (Church)
· 5:30 p.m. - Parish Reception (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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November 5, 1414: The Council of Constance opens to end the Great Schism. It deposed all three rival popes, but it also executed Bohemian reformers Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, and anathematized the teachings of John Wycliffe.
November 6, 1315: Poet Dante Alighieri is sentenced to death, in absentia, by the magistrates of Florence. Dante, who was at the time working on his Comedy in Venice, avoided the penalty by never returning to Florence, from which he had been exiled for political reasons.
November 7, 739 (traditional date): Willibrord, a missionary monk who was trained in Ireland and traveled over northwestern Europe, dies. Called the "Apostle of Frisia," he was highly instrumental in the conversions of Germany and Scandinavia.
November 7, 1637: Anne Hutchinson is convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her idea that believers are so united with the Holy Spirit that human categories (like moral law) are irrelevant, and her claim of direct revelation from the Holy Spirit rather than Scripture, caused many of her supporters (including influential minister John Cotton) to back off. Hutchinson was later killed in New York in an American Indian raid.
November 7, 1837: Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered in Alton, Illinois. A newspaper editor whose press was destroyed by vandals three times, he was accused of inciting slaves to revolt when he defended a black man burned at the stake by a mob. When another mob tried to burn down his warehouse, Lovejoy was shot trying to save it. His death helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement.
November 10, 1770: French anti-Christian philosopher Francois Voltaire utters his famous remark, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
November 10, 1871: After seven months of searching, American journalist Henry Stanley finally finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa, and utters his famous introduction, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." The relationship between the two men led to Stanley's conversion and decision to become a missionary.
November 11, 397 (traditional date): Martin of Tours, a bishop responsible for the evangelization of Gaul, dies. He is France's patron saint.
November 11, 1215: The Fourth Lateran Council opens. It officially confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation-that the substance of Eucharistic bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, with only the accidents (appearances of bread and wine) remaining. The council also prescribed annual confession for all Christians.
November 11, 1620: Forty-one Puritan separatists arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had hoped to settle further south, but as William Bradford wrote in his journal on December 19, "We could not now take much time for further search . . . our victuals being much spent, especially our beer".
November 11, 1855: Danish Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, regarded as the founder of existentialism, dies at age 42. Trying to "reintroduce Christianity to Christendom," he believed that Christianity was far more radical and difficult than did his Danish contemporaries.
--taken from Christianity Today
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St. Joannicus of Mount Olympus 
Hermit, Prophet, and Miracle Worker, 846
Hermit, prophet, and miracle worker who defied the Byzantine emperor Theophilus and his Iconoclast policies. Born in Bithynia, in modem Turkey, Joannicus was an Iconoclast until he was converted to the religious life at the age of forty. He became a recluse on Mount Olympus in Bithynia and a monk. Later, he defied the emperor and declared that sacred images would be restored to the Church. Empress Theodora did restore the icons.
-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, 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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