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Quote of the Week
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This Week in Church History
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Thursday in Easter Week
April 9, 2015

Images of Holy Week & Easter



Bordentown 5K Water Table
5K Station 2 Saturday, April 11, 9am

Our parish will once again have a water station set up in front of the church. We need volunteers to fill cups and pass them out to thirsty runners.  Please let Fr. Matt know if you can help minister to the runners.
Trenton Thunder Game

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.
Upcoming Events

 

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

The Propers
For Sunday, April 12

This Sunday is the Second Sunday of Easter

OT:  Isaiah 26:2-9,19      
Psalm 118:19-24
NT:  1 John 5:1-6
Gospel:  John 20:19-31

  

Collect:
 Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery hast established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through the same 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, April 12

Choir Holiday
Serving This Week
For Sunday, April 12                         
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Ed Ackerman & Susan Preston

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Kate Williamson

Acolytes:

8am: Wayne Voorhees, Barbara Fusco, & Alex Vigh
10am: Mary Ellen Carty, Chris Neal

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Mary Ellen Carty
Linens: Kate Williamson 
Quote of the Week
 

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

                                   ~Ravi Zacharias

 
Church Schedule
The Week of April 12, 2015 
 
Saturday, 11 April :: Saturday in Easter Week
� 11:00 a.m. - Wedding (Church)
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)


Sunday, 12 April :: The Second Sunday of Easter
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 13 April :: Feria
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 14 April :: Feria
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
� 7:30 p.m. - Vestry Meeting (Sacristy) 
 
Wednesday, 15 April :: Feria
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 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, 16 April :: Feria
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus self-led (Lady Chapel)
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)   
       
Friday, 17 April :: Feria

Abstinence Dispensed

� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
  
Saturday, 18 April :: The Vigil of the Third Sunday of Easter
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)


Sunday, 19 April :: The Third Sunday of Easter
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
� 8:45 a.m. - HomeFront Meal Prep (Kitchen)
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (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.

This (Past) Week in Church History

 

April 4, 636: Isidore, spanish scholar and archbishop of Seville dies. His most extensive and famous work was his Etymologiae (Etymologies), an extensive encyclopedia of early medieval knowledge that, unlike other such works, used liberal arts and secular learning as the foundation of Christian education. (Isidore did remark, however, that it would be better to be without the knowledge of heretics than to be misled by their comments.)

 

April 4, 1541: Spanish ascetic and theologian Ignatius of Loyola is elected the first General of the Jesuit Order (or the Society of Jesus), which he had founded the previous year.

 

April 4, 1687: James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence allowing full liberty of worship in England. The government allowed Nonconformists to meet (though justices of the peace had to be notified), forgave penalties for ecclesiastical offenses and no longer required oaths of supremacy and allegiance for those in royal service. Thus the declaration severely threatened Anglican control of church and state.

 

April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

April 5, 1524: Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli marries Anna Reinhart for the second time-this time in public. In 1522, Zwingli (and 10 other priests) appealed to the bishop of Constance for permission to marry. When the bishop refused the petition, Zwingli married secretly and, later that year, resigned from the priesthood.

 

April 5, 1649: John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay, dies. Profoundly religious, Winthrop, who left England because of its persecution of Puritans, believed New England to be "a city upon a hill" for the world to see and emulate.

 

April 5, 1811: Robert Raikes, founder of English Sunday schools in 1780, dies. Raikes built his Sunday schools not for respectable and well-mannered children of believers, but for (in one woman's description) "multitudes of wretches who, released on that day from employment, spend their day in noise and riot." In 4 years, 250,000 students were attending the schools, by Raikes's death, 500,000, and by 1831, 1.25 million.

 

April 6, 1249: Muslims take King Louis IX of France prisoner during the seventh crusade, which was supposed to overcome the Muslim political center in Egypt. After showing bravery in the face of torture, he was allowed to buy his freedom for a huge sum in gold-and the city of Damietta.

 

April 6, 1932: Eric Liddell, the Olympic athlete featured in the film Chariots of Fire, makes his evangelistic debut by sharing his testimony to a group of men in Armadale, Scotland. Liddell later returned to the mission field in China, where he was born, and ministered in an internment camp following the Japanese invasion. He died in 1945 from a massive brain tumor.

 

April 7, 1199: England's King Richard I, the "Lionhearted," dies at age 41. Richard, as one of the three leaders of the Third Crusade, negotiated Christian access to Jerusalem.

 

April 7, 1498: Franciscan friars arrange an "ordeal by fire" in Florence to settle the dispute between reforming preacher Jerome Savonarola and Pope Alexander VI. Alexander had excommunicated Savonarola for preaching against papal corruption; Savonarola responded by calling for the pope to step down. If Savonarola's friend Fra Domenico could walk safely between two walls of fire, God was supposedly on the Florentine city-manager's side. But Savonarola never sent Domenico out. The crowd rioted, Savonarola's power crumbled, and he was soon arrested, tortured, and executed.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
Bl. Juliette Verolot
Martyr, 1794                            

 

One of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, France. She was called Sister St. Francis Xavier, and she and her Camelite community were guillotined at Compiegne. Pope St. Pius X beatified her in 1906.  

 

-Catholic Saints & Angels

Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick: Christine, Fritz, 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, Eunice Campbell. Linda Bloom,  Peggy Foltermann, Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Charles Martin, Lyza Lyon, Jack Young, Carol Pfieffer, Rosemary Shea, Fred Kniss, Robert Fritz, and Maria Stout.

 

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,  Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, Brianne Nicosia, Mario Batist, Treavor Curtis,  Dean Curtis,  Robert Ackerman, Paul Wesley Morrison, Kelly Bergen, Bill Yale, Hannah McNinch, Gabe Fresco, Fr. Ted Anderson, Norma Stirpe, Linda Sue Slone, R. Loraine Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Mackenzie Sutter,  Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay,  Roberta Cash, Patti Beddia, Geobel Marin, Jennifer Vigh, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner, Nancy Dix, Jim Tranter, 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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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,

Fr. Matt+
Rector