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Anniversary Mass
Brunch
Rogation
Ascension Day
Memorial Day
Fruit Sale
Thunder Game
Upcoming Events
The Propers
Serving This Week
Quote of the Week
Church Schedule
This Week in Church History
Saint of the Week
Parish Prayer List
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Holy Abbots of Cluny
April 30, 2015

Anniversary Mass
Thursday, April 30, 11:30am

Join us in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Fr. Pat Sullivan's ordination to the diaconate on April 30 at 11:30am in the Lady Chapel.  
Mothers' Day Brunch
Sunday, May 10, 9am

Our annual Mother's Day Breakfast is this Sunday, May 10, in the Parish Hall. Breakfast will be served between services starting at 9:00 a.m. Assistance in the kitchen as well as servers are needed (children and older youth are welcome). There is no charge for this traditional delicious breakfast, but a free-will offering basket will be available. Also, there will be no church school so all the ladies of the parish may enjoy the breakfast together with their families and friends.

Rogation Procession w. Vox Fidelis
Sunday, May 17, 6pm Rogation

Celebrate the Spring Rogation with Vox Fidelis on Sunday, May 17, at 6pm.   "Rogation" comes from the Latin "rogare," which means "to ask," and "Rogation Days" are days during which we seek to ask God's mercy and ask for His blessings, particularly with regard to farming, gardening, and other agricultural pursuits. 

Because of this, it is especially appropriate to bless farm and garden implements, so feel free to bring representative equipment to be blessed. A light reception will follow in the Rectory.

P.S. - If you or someone you know wishes to have farm equipment blessed on the farm, please let Fr. Matt know. He would be happy to bless equipment, seeds, etc.

Ascension Day Mass
Memorial Day Solemnities
Saturday, May 23, 11am

Come honor those who have given their last full measure of devotion to this our great Nation. Our own Andy Law is the Master of Ceremonies. The Bordentown City Memorial is located at the corner of Farnsworth & Railroad. 
Fruit Sale

Do you have a desire to help our parish and good organizational skills?  Lead our annual citrus fruit sale! The fruit sale is a great fundraiser for the parish and also provides a healthy and delicious product. Speak with Fr. Matt if you're interested. 
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 30, 11:30am: Fr. Sullivan's Anniversary Mass 

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, May 3

This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday of Easter

OT:  Acts 8:26-40         
Psalm 66:1-9
NT:  1 John 3:(14-17)18-24
Gospel:  John 14:15-21

  

Collect:
 Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, May 3                           
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Bill Collom & Mary Ellen Carty

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Open

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
 
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
                              - Saint Gregory the Great
 
Church Schedule
The Week of May 3, 2015 
 
Saturday, 2 May :: The Vigil of the Fifth Sunday of Easter
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)


Sunday, 3 May :: The Fifth Sunday of Easter
� 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)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 4 May :: Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 5 May :: Conversion of St. Augustine 
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
   
Wednesday, 6 May :: St. John Before the Latin Gate
� 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, 7 May :: John of Beverly, Bishop of York, 721 
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus self-led (Lady Chapel)
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)    
       
Friday, 8 May :: Dame Julian of Norwich, 1417

Abstinence Dispensed

� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
  
Saturday, 9 May :: The Vigil of the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)


Sunday, 10 May :: The Sixth Sunday of Easter (Mother's Day)
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:00 a.m. - Mother's Day Brunch (Parish Hall)
� 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 22, 1724: German philosopher Immanuel Kant, a pivotal figure in the history of modern philosophy and theology, is born in Konigsberg, East Prussia.

 

April 22, 1669: Colonial religious leader Richard Mather (father of Increase, grandfather of Cotton) dies at age 63. He helped author the Bay Psalm Book and the Cambridge Platform, which served for many years as the standard doctrinal statement for New England Congregationalism.

 

April 22, 1864: The motto "In God We Trust," conceived during the Civil War, first appears on American coinage.

 

April 23, 1073: Hildebrand is elected pope, taking the name Gregory VII. The first pope to excommunicate a ruler (Henry IV), Gregory was driven out of Rome in 1084. "I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity," were his last words, "therefore I died in exile."

 

April 23, 1968: The Evangelical United Brethren Church joins with the much larger Methodist Church, forming the United Methodist Church, the largest Methodist group in the world and America's second-largest Protestant denomination (after the Southern Baptist Convention).

 

April 24, 387: On this day, Augustine of Hippo writes in his autobiographical Confessions, "We were baptized and all anxiety for our past life vanished away." The 33-year-old had been a teacher of rhetoric and pagan philosophies at some of the Roman Empire's finest schools, but after great influence by his mother, Monica, and the famous bishop Ambrose, he turned to Christianity. His baptism by Ambrose, on Easter Sunday , marked his entrance into the church.

 

April 24, 1944: In "United States v. Ballard," the Supreme Court ruled that no governmental agency can determine "the truth or falsity of the beliefs or doctrines" of anyone-even if the beliefs "may seem incredible, if not preposterous to most people." But the court also reiterated its position that while freedom of belief is absolute, the freedom to act on those beliefs is not.

 

April 25, 1214: Louis IX, king of France and saint, is born. Leader of the Seventh and Eighth Crusades (he died on the latter), he was known for his humility: he wore hair shirts and visited hospitals-where he emptied the bedpans.

 

April 25, 1599: Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan lord protector of England, is born near Cambridge. As lord protector he sought to allow more freedom of religion.

 

April 25, 1887: Radio evangelist Charles E. Fuller, known for his "Old Fashioned Revival Hour" and for cofounding Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, is born in Los Angeles.

 

April 26, 1877: Residents of Minnesota observe a state-wide day of prayer, asking deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers that had ruined thousands of acres of crops. The plague ended during that summer.

 

April 26, 1992: Worshipers celebrate the first Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 years.

 

April 27, 1775: Moravian minister and missionary Peter Boehler dies. He met John Wesley in 1737 while both were sailing to minister in America, and his assurance of faith and belief in joyous, instantaneous conversion left a permanent mark on Wesley.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Phaebadius
Bishop of Agen, 392                           

 

Also called Fiari, bishop of Agen in Southern Gaul. He was a very well known bishop and was termed by St. Jerome one of the illustrious men of the Church. With his friend St. Hilary of Poitiers, he worked to extirpate the heresy of Arianism in the West.

 

-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