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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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Lenten Feria
March 26, 2015
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Holy Week Service Descriptions
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A Short Description of the Holy Week Services at Christ Church
Palm Sunday
8am: Spoken Mass w. Liturgy of the Palms, 45 minutes
10am: Sung Mass w. Liturgy of the Palms, 70 minutes
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. The procession with palms calls to mind the triumphal entry of Jesus, our Lord and King, into Jerusalem. The procession is fundamentally an act of worship, witness, and devotion to our Blessed Lord. The purpose of Jesus' journey into Jerusalem was to fulfill his Father's will; thus it is fitting that this service continues with the reading of the Passion, turning the emphasis to the days which lie ahead in Holy Week. We who hail him as king one moment, may in the next deny him, even joining with the crowds in shouting "Crucify him!"
Holy Monday
8am: Morning Prayer w. Marian Devotion, 15 minutes
12:10pm: Low Mass, 20 minutes
Holy Tuesday
8am: Morning Prayer w. Marian Devotion, 15 minutes
12:10pm: Low Mass, 20 minutes
Holy Wednesday
8am: Morning Prayer w. Marian Devotion, 15 minutes
12:10pm: Low Mass, 20 minutes
6:30pm: Rosary, 20 minutes
7pm: Sung Stations of the Cross, 45 minutes
Maundy Thursday
8am: Morning Prayer, 15 minutes
10am: Low Mass w. Anointing, 22 minutes
7pm: Sung Mass w. the Maundy, Procession to the Altar of Repose, and the Stripping of the Altars, 70 minutes
9pm - 12pm Friday: Vigil at the Altar of Repose, hourly
This day receives its name from the mandatum or the "new commandment" given by our Lord. At the Last Supper, Jesus washed his disciples' feet and commanded them to love and serve one another as he had done. This service begins with a festal character: white vestments are worn; the Gloria in excelsis is sung; additional candles may be lit. This service has been called "a burst of sunshine in the gathering gloom." We at once remember the joy of the institution of the Eucharist, the love and service which Jesus lived and taught, the agony in the garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal leading to the Crucifixion. The bread and wine of the Last Supper are given new meaning by the Body broken and Blood poured out on the cross. Sufficient bread and wine will be consecrated on this day for the Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday. The Sacrament is then taken to the Altar of Repose where the faithful are asked to "watch and pray." The altar, symbolic of Christ, is stripped of its vesture and the building is left bare for the solemnity of Good Friday.
Good Friday
12am-12pm, The Vigil at the Altar of Repose, hourly
12pm: The Ending of the Vigil, 2 minutes
12:10pm: Said Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified, 40 minutes
7pm: Good Friday Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified, 60 minutes
This most solemn of all days should be marked by fasting, abstinence, and penance, leading us to focus on Jesus upon the Cross. The bare, stark appearance of the church serves as a reminder of the solemnity and the sorrow of the day. The Lord of Life was rejected, mocked, scourged, and then put to death on the Cross. The faithful need to be mindful of the part which their own sins played in this suffering and agony, as Christ took all sin upon himself, in obedience to his Father's will. By the Cross we are redeemed, set free from the bondage of sin and death. The Cross is assign of God's never-ending love for us. It is a sign of life, in the midst of death. The service consists of three parts: lessons and prayers, including the recital of the Passion; veneration of the cross, a devotion showing our love and thankfulness for the gift of life given us by Jesus' death; and it concludes with the Mass of the Presanctified from the Sacrament consecrated on Maundy Thursday.
Holy Saturday
9am: Altar Service, 10 minutes
8pm: The Great Vigil of Easter, Sung Mass, 90 minutes
The Great Vigil of Easter is perhaps the most theologically important service of the Church Year. In it the new fire of God is struck, banishing darkness, and showing forth the victory won on Good Friday; the saving acts of God in history are recounted in the Exsultet and in Holy Scripture; new Christians may be made through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism; the vows made by all Christians at their baptisms are renewed; and with the end of the Lenten observance, the first Mass of the joyful season of Easter is celebrated. The Vigil is not a short service. It marks time in the evening, while the people await the announcement of the Resurrection: "Alleluia, Christ is risen!" He is risen indeed, and the Paschal Candle burns as a sign of the Presence of the resurrected Christ.
Easter Sunday
8am: Low Mass of Easter, 45 minutes
9am: Church School Easter Event, 30 minutes
10am: Sung Mass of Easter, 70 minutes
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Hope Hose Humane Fish Dinner
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Friday, March 27, 4pm - 8pm
Hope Hose Humane Co. #1 will be hosting their annual "Fish Dinner" on March 27th, 2015 from 4pm to 8pm. Dinner includes Breaded Flounder, Home Made Macaroni and Cheese, Cole Slaw, Salad, Beverage, Dessert, and Roll for $10.00. Please come out for a little fellowship with your local volunteer firemen, and community members. BYOB.
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Sung Stations of the Cross w. Vox Fidelis
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Holy Wednesday, April 1, 7pm 
Christ Church and Vox Fidelis will offer Sung Stations of the Cross on Wednesday, April 1, at 7pm.
Mass on Holy Wednesday will be said at 12:10 pm. Rosary will be said at 6:30pm.
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Trenton Thunder Game
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The Church School is planning its annual trip to see the Trenton
Thunder. This year's game is on June 27. Church School kids and teachers go for free, and kids can bring a friend for free as well, through the generosity of a parishioner. Tickets for adults are $8.00. A sign up sheet is on the bulletin board next to the office.
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Upcoming Events
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March 27, 4pm: Fish Dinner (Hope Hose Humane)
March 29-April 4: Holy Week (see schedule)
April 1, 7pm: Sung Stations of the Cross w. Vox Fidelis
April 5, 9am: Church School Easter Event
April 11, 9am: 5K Water Table
April 17-18: Allied Recycling Fundraiser
April 26, 7pm: Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis
May 9, 10am-7pm: Iris Festival (302 Farnsworth)
May 10, 9am: Mother's Day Breakfast
May 10, 10am: May Crowning
May 14, 10am: Ascension Day Mass
May 16 & 17: Street Fair
May 17, 6pm: Rogation Procession w. Vox Fidelis
May 23, 11am: Memorial Day Solemnities
May 31, 10am: First Holy Communion & Church School Recognition
May 31, 4pm: Evensong, Benediction, and Reception
June 27, 7pm: Trenton Thunder Game
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The Propers
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For Sunday, March 29
This Sunday is Palm Sunday
OT: Isaiah 45:21-25
Psalm 22:1-11 NT: Philippians 2:5-11
Gospel: The Passion according to Mark
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The Music
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For Sunday, March 29
Ordinary -Missa Marialis
Organ - Canzona dopo l'Epistola
Antiphon - Pueri Hebraeorum - Tomas Luis de Victoria
Anthem - Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
Organ - Improvisation on 'Breslau' - S.C. Bearse
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, March 29
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Mary Ellen Carty & Andy Law
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Kate Williamson
Acolytes:8am: Richard Trout, Wayne Voorhees & Alex Vigh
10am: Mary Ellen Carty, Chris Neal
Altar Guild:
Preparation: Mary Ellen Carty
Linens: Loris Johnson
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Quote of the Week
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Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.
~Saint John Eudes
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Church Schedule
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The Week of March 29, 2015
Saturday, 28 March :: The Vigil of the Palm Sunday· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass w. the Liturgy of the Palms (Lady Chapel) Sunday, 29 March :: Palm Sunday
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. the Liturgy of the Palms (Church) · 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms) · 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass w. the Liturgy of the Palms (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)Monday, 30 March :: Holy Monday
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Ave Regina (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Tuesday, 31 March :: Holy Tuesday
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Ave Regina (Lady Chapel)· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Wednesday, 1 April :: Holy Wednesday
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Ave Regina (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
· 6:30 p.m. - Rosary (Lady Chapel)
· 7:00 p.m. - Sung Stations of the Cross w. Vox Fidelis (Church)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 2 April :: Maundy Thursday
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Ave Regina self-led (Lady Chapel)· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) · 7:00 p.m. - Sung Mass w. Maundy, Procession to the Altar of Repose, Stripping of the Altars, and Vigil (Church)
Friday, 3 April :: Good Friday
· Special Devotion & Abstinence
· 12:00 a.m. - The Continuance of the Vigil (Lady Chapel)· 10:30 a.m. - Burial (Churchyard)
· 12:00 p.m. - The Closing of the Vigil (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Said Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified · 6:30 p.m. - Stations of the Cross (Church) · 7:00 p.m. - Good Friday Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified
Saturday, 4 April :: Holy Saturday
· 9:00 a.m. - Altar Service (Lady Chapel)
· 8:00 p.m. - The Great Vigil of Easter (Church)
Sunday, 5 April :: Easter Sunday
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:45 a.m. - Church School Easter Event (Churchyard)
· 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 (Past) Week in Church History
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March 19, 1229: Having negotiated a treaty with Muslims for Christian access to Jerusalem, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (a reluctant participant in the sixth crusade) enters the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and crowns himself king. But his peace treaty was denounced by members of both faiths, and the same day the Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem pronounced an interdict on the city. Frederick was later excommunicated for making peace instead of war.
March 20, 687: Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne and a vocal supporter of Celtic practices over Roman ones, dies. Shortly thereafter the Lindisfarne Gospels monks created created in his honor.
March 20, 1747: Severely ill with tuberculosis, Presbyterian missionary David Brainerd ends his work among the Native Americans of Delaware.
March 21, 547: Italian monk Benedict, author of the Benedictine rule (which established the pattern for European monastic life through the Middle Ages), dies at Monte Cassino. In 1965 Pope Paul VI proclaimed him the patron saint of Europe.
March 21, 1556: After denying earlier forced recantations, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, a crucial figure in the English Reformation and author of the Book of Common Prayer, is burned at the stake by Queen Mary. He reportedly thrust his arm into the flames, saying the hand that had signed the recantations should be the first to burn.
March 21, 1685: German organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany. Though largely unrecognized in his day and forgotten for years after his death, he has since become recognized as one of history's unequalled musical masters. But music was never just music to Bach. Nearly three-fourths of his 1,000 compositions were written for use in worship. Between his musical genius, his devotion to Christ, and the effect of his music, he has gained recognition in many circles as the "Fifth Evangelist."
March 21, 1656: James Ussher, calvinist theologian and archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, dies. Famous for his chronology of the Bible (which placed the creation of the world in 4004 B.C.), he also created a history of the Latin Church and the articles of faith for the Church in Ireland. Respected by Christians of all traditions, he was given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.
March 21, 1965: Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., leads more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. By the time they reached their destination four days later, the group had expanded to 25,000.
March 22, 337: Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, dies at age 47. As emperor, he issued an edict officially tolerating Christianity, though he did little to stave off paganism. He also summoned the Council of Nicea to settle the Arian dispute over the nature of Christ.
March 22, 1758: Jonathan Edwards, America's greatest theologian, dies from the effects of a smallpox vaccination after arriving in New Jersey to accept the presidency of what is now Princeton University.
March 23, 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex becomes the last monastery in England to transfer its allegiance from the Catholic Church to the newly established Church of England.
March 23, 1966: The Archbishop of Canterbury meets at the Vatican with Pope Paul VI-the first such meeting between Anglican and Catholic leaders since Henry VIII broke with Rome more than 400 years before.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | |
St. Margaret Clitherow 
Martyr, 1586
St. Margaret Clitherow was born in Middleton, England, in 1555, of protestant parents. Possessed of good looks and full of wit and merriment, she was a charming personality. In 1571, she married John Clitherow, a well-to-do grazier and butcher (to whom she bore two children), and a few years later entered the Catholic Church. Her zeal led her to harbor fugitive priests, for which she was arrested and imprisoned by hostile authorities. Recourse was had to every means in an attempt to make her deny her Faith, but the holy woman stood firm. Finally, she was condemned to be pressed to death on March 25, 1586. She was stretched out on the ground with a sharp rock on her back and crushed under a door over laden with unbearable weights. Her bones were broken and she died within fifteen minutes. The humanity and holiness of this servant of God can be readily glimpsed in her words to a friend when she learned of her condemnation: "The sheriffs have said that I am going to die this coming Friday; and I feel the weakness of my flesh which is troubled at this news, but my spirit rejoices greatly. For the love of God, pray for me and ask all good people to do likewise." Her feast day is March 26th.
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Parish Prayer List
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Of your charity, please pray for:
the sick: Richard Trout, Stella Eichinger, Steve Vigh, Bob Bernard, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Kelly Jones, Ardelle Zervous, Kelley Gilger, Lynn Ford, Sister Gussie, Nancy Biocco, Jane Humble, Michael Chahanovich, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Gary Rutherford, Morgan Ackerman, Lorriane Sickels, Nicole Pelligra, Addolorata Martelli, Suzie Mertz, William Sweeney, Fran Gripp, Raymond Witte, Roger Kafer, Alice Brumfield, Chet Rhodes, Lori Forenson, Greg Poole, Eunice Campbell. Linda Bloom, Peggy Foltermann, Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Charles Martin, Lyza Lyon, Delmar Fenton, and Jack Young.
and those who have long term illnesses: Paula Flesch, Jean Weitzel, John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Kevin Kintner, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Michael Slaper, Lorraine Kunkel, Alice Ward Carriger, Karen Campbell Hillman, Carla Douglas, Richard Cook, Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, 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 Beddia, Geobel Marin, Jennifer Vigh, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner Nancy Dix, Jim Tranter, Cole Carver, John Lobos, Jonathan Okeson, and John O'Malia.
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 Jr, USA.
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