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June 25, 2015
The Tolling of Bells

This past Friday, in the wake of the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the bell of Christ Church were rung for ten minutes.


Bishop Stokes suggested ringing the bells one minute for each victim and one minute for the gunman. I rang the bell nine times a minute for ten minutes, for the souls of those lost in the massacre.

Please join me in continuing to pray for those who were killed; for their murderer, who is both mentally ill and a perpetrator of evil; and for the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, in whose Kingdom our divisions cease, all bonds are broken, and where every race and nation gather around His throne.

--MT+  

Thunder Game

Our Church School trip to see the Trenton Thunder is this Saturday at 7pm. See you there!   
Bordentown Farmers' Market
Back on for the Summer!


Upcoming Events

June 27, 5pm: Street of Dreams Car Show 

June 27, 7pm: Trenton Thunder Game

July 25, 10am: ECW Meeting 

The Propers
For Sunday, June 28

This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

OT:  Deuteronomy 15:7-11     
Psalm 112
NT:  2 Corinthians 8:1-9,13-15
Gospel:  Mark 5:21-24,35-43

  

Collect:
O Almighty God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, June 28                                   
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
9:30am: Andy Law & Anne Lyon

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
9:30am: Anne Lyon

Acolytes:

8am: Richard Trout, Wayne Voorhees, and Alex Vigh
9:30am: Mary Ellen Carty, Chris Neal, and Andy Jones

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Vinnie Stout
Linens: Anne Lyon 
Quote of the Week
 
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
                              -Saint Gerard Majella
 
Church Schedule
The Week of June 28, 2015 
 
Saturday, 27 June :: The Vigil of the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
� 7:00 p.m. - Thunder Game (Arm & Hammer Park)

Sunday, 28 June :: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:30 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 10:30 a.m. - Lemonade on the Lawn (Lychgate)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 29 June :: Ss. Peter and Paul, Apostles
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 30 June :: Protomartyrs of the Church of Rome, 1st C. 
� Church Office Closed

Wednesday, 1 July :: The Most Precious Blood of Jesus
� 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Thursday, 2 July :: Feria   
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)     

Friday, 3 July :: Feria

Normal Friday Abstinence


Saturday, 4 July :: Independence Day  
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)

Sunday, 5 July :: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:30 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
� 10:30 a.m. - Lemonade on the Lawn (Lychgate)
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

The Summer Office hours are Wednesday-Friday from 9:00am 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

 

June 17, 1703: John Wesley, founder of Methodism, is born in Epworth, England, to parents Samuel and Susanna. Though Methodism's emphasis on grace and instantaneous (often emotional) conversion marked a radical departure from high church tradition, Wesley always considered himself an Anglican.

 

June 17, 1963: The U.S. Supreme Court rules 8-1 that states cannot require the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools.

 

June 18, 1464: Pope Pius II begins a crusade against the Turks. He died on the way to a rendezvous with his allies, and the crusading mentality died with him.

 

June 18, 1546: Protestant Anne Askew is condemned in England for denying the doctrine of transubstantiation (the idea that sacramental bread and wine turn into the body and blood of Christ). When asked by her accuser, "Sayest thou that priests cannot make the body of Christ?" she answered, "I have read that God made man; but that man can make God, I never yet read, nor, I suppose, shall ever read."

 

June 18, 1956: Founder of The Navigators, Dawson Trotman dies of a heart attack while rescuing a swimmer at a summer Navigators conference in the Adirondacks.

 

June 20, 1599: The Synod of Diamper, sponsored by the Roman Catholic church, seeks to correct the errors of Christians in India and bring them into conformity with the teachings of the church.

 

June 20, 1885: A band of Moravian missionaries lands on the shores of Alaska and founds the Bethel Mission.

 

June 21, 1607: English settlers found the first Anglican (later Episcopalian) parish in America at Jamestown, Virginia.

 

June 21, 1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, American neo-orthodox theologian and ethicist, is born. He rejected some of the optimism of Christian liberalism, arguing for origional sin and for a prophetic, culture-challenging Christianity, but his liberal views on politics, the Bible, and the nature of Christ (he believed Jesus was a moral exemplar, but not fully God) distanced him from conservatives.

 

June 23, 1683: English Quaker William Penn, an advocate of peace and religious toleration, signs a treaty with the American Indians of Pennsylvania. Voltaire said the agreement was the only treaty never sworn to and never broken.

 

June 23, 1780: American troops, using hymnal pages from the First Presbyterian Church for gun wadding, stops the British advance on Springfield, New Jersey.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Gohardus
Bishop & Martyr, 843                              

Bishop of Nantes, France, martyred by marauding Normans. Gohardus was celebrating Mass in Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Nantes when the Normans attacked. He was slain as were many priests, monks, and laity when the city was looted and destroyed.  

 

-Catholic Saints & Angels

Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick: Barbara Fusco, Stella Eichinger, Steve Vigh, Bob Bernard, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Kelly Jones,  Kelley Gilger,  Sister Gussie, Nancy Biocco, Jane Humble, Michael Chahanovich, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Gary Rutherford, Morgan Ackerman, Lorriane Sickels, Addolorata Martelli, William Sweeney, Fran Gripp,  Raymond Witte,  Roger Kafer, Alice Brumfield, Chet Rhodes, Lori Forenson, Eunice Campbell. Linda Bloom,  Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Charles Martin, Lyza Lyon, Jack Young, Carol Pfieffer, Rosemary Shea, Fred Kniss, Robert Fritz, Maria Stout, Mary Dallman,  Emma Carver, Gloria Garfinkle, Clare Biagini, Secretary Charles Kuperus, Rita Haney, Michael Ceponis,  Muriel Daugherty, Shaun Neiderman, Carol Boggs, Irene Fithian, Robert Norcross.   

 

and those who have long term illnesses:  Paula Flesch, John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Kevin Kintner, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Michael Slaper, Alice Ward Carriger, Karen Campbell Hillman, Carla Douglas,  Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, Brianne Nicosia, Mario Batist, 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, John O'Malia, Ardelle Zervous, and Eileen Cantivell. 

  

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