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July 9, 2015
Vacation Bible School
July 13-17

This year's VBS is being hosted by Trinity UMC on Farnsworth Ave. Call 609.575.7608 to register!


Bordentown Farmers' Market
Back on for the Summer!


Upcoming Events

July 13-17: VBS at Trinity UMC
July 25, 10am: ECW Meeting
July 25, 7pm: Trenton Thunder Game
The Propers
For Sunday, July 12

This Sunday is the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

OT:  Amos 7:7-15        
Psalm 85:7-13
NT:  Ephesians 1:1-14
Gospel:  Mark 6:7-13

  

Collect:
 O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people who call upon thee, and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, July 12                                     
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
9:30am: Ed Ackerman & Bill Collom

Ushers:
8am: Olivia Brovak
9:30am: Open

Acolytes:

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

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Joan Corbo
Linens: Anne Lyon 
Quote of the Week
 

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

                                                 ~Saint Ignatius

Church Schedule
The Week of July 12, 2015 
 
Saturday, 11 July :: Benedict of Nursia, 540 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)

Sunday, 12 July :: The Seventh 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, 13 July :: Silas, Companion of Paul, Martyr, 1st Century
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 14 July :: Bonaventure, Bishop of Albano, 1274 
� Church Office Closed

Wednesday, 15 July :: Translation of St. Swithun, 862
� 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Thursday, 16 July :: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel    
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)     

Friday, 17 July :: William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836

Normal Friday Abstinence


Saturday, 18 July :: Of the Virgin Mary 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)

Sunday, 19 July :: The Eighth 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)

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

 

July 1, 1643: The Westminster Assembly convenes for the first time in the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey. Five years later it published the Westminster longer and shorter catechisms, which the Anglican church rejected, but the Presbyterians accepted.

 

July 1, 1824: The Presbyterian church ordains Charles Grandison Finney, the father of modern revivalism.

 

July 1, 1899: Three traveling businessmen meet in a YMCA building and decide to form an organization to distribute Bibles. The Christian Commercial Men's Association of America, later renamed the Gideons, placed their first Bibles in a hotel nine years later.

 

July 4, 973: Ulrich, bishop ofAugsburg from 923, dies. Twenty years later he would become the first person canonized by a pope.

 

July 4, 1187: Saladin, leader of the united Muslim forces, defeats the armies of the Third Crusade at Tiberius, Syria.

 

July 5, 1439: Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholics sign the Decree of Union at the Council of Florence, creating an official union between the two churches. Popular sentiment in Constantinople opposed the decree, and when the Turks captured the city, the union ceased. However, the council's definition of doctrine and its principles of church union (unity of faith, diversity of rite) have proved useful in subsequent church talks.

 

July 5, 1865: William Booth founds The Christian Mission to work among London's poor and unchurched. Later, he changed the mission's name to the Salvation Army.

 

July 6, 1054: Church legates of the Roman pope march into the church of Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and place a bull on the altar, excommunicating him. So began of the Great Schism between the Catholics and the Orthodox.

 

July 6, 1415: Jan Hus, Bohemian preacher and forerunner of Protestantism, is burned as a heretic in Constance, Germany.

 

July 6, 1535: Sir Thomas More (b. 1478), who had recently resigned as Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason. He had sided with the pope against Henry VIII in the matter of the king's divorce. He was sentenced to be hanged, but Henry commuted the sentence to beheading.

 

July 7, 1647: Thomas Hooker, Puritan pastor, political theorist, and founder of Connecticut dies on his sixty-first birthday.

 

July 7, 1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, becomes the first American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

 

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
Bl. Peir Giorgio Frassati
Witness, 1925                           

 

He was born in Turin into a wealthy family, who owned a newspaper called La Stampa. Though an average student, Frassati was known among his peers for his devotion and piety.

He was dedicated to works of social action, charity, prayer and community. He was involved with Catholic youth and student groups, the Apostleship of Prayer, Catholic Action, and was a third order Dominican. He would often say, "Charity is not enough; we need social reform." He helped establish a newspaper entitled Momento, whose principles were based on Pope Leo XIII's encyclical: Rerum Novarum.

 

Despite his family's enormous wealth and power, Frassati's father was austere and never gave his children too much spending money. Frassati, however, donated most or all of his money to people he saw as more "needy" than him, and as a result he became accustomed to giving his train-fare to the poor and running back home or riding in third class.

Despite the many organizations to which Frassati belonged, he was not a passive "joiner"; records show that he was active and involved in each, fulfilling all the duties of membership. He was strongly anti-fascist and did nothing to hide his political views.

Participating in a Church-organized demonstration in Rome, he withstood police violence and rallied the other young people by grabbing the banner which the police had knocked out of someone else's hands. He held it even higher while using the pole to ward off their blows. When the demonstrators were arrested by the police, he refused special treatment that he might have received because of his father's political position, preferring to stay with his friends. One night a group of fascists broke into his family's home to attack him and his father, but Frassati beat them off single-handedly chasing them down the street.

 

Frassati died in 1925 of poliomyelitis. His family expected Turin's elite and political figures to come to offer their condolences and attend the funeral; they naturally expected to find many of his friends there as well. They were surprised, however, to find the streets of the city lined with thousands of mourners as the cortege passed by. Poor people from the city petitioned the Archbishop of Turin to begin the cause for canonization. The process was opened in 1932 and he was beatified on 20 May 1990. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's feast day is 4 July.

 

Frassati was called Man of Eight Beatitudes by Pope John Paul II, who beatified him on 20 May 1990. Frassati is the Patron Saint of Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma, where Frassati's family blessed the school in his spirit.  

 

-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, William Sweeney, Raymond Witte, Roger Kafer, Alice Brumfield, Lori Forenson, Eunice Campbell. Linda Bloom, Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Charles Martin, Lyza Lyon, Jack Young, Carol Pfieffer, 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, John Barta, Michelle Miloscia, and Frank Katona.   

 

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 sFresco, Fr. Ted Anderson, Linda Sue Slone, R. Loraine Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Mackenzie Sutter, Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay, Roberta Cash, Patti Beddia, Geobel Marin, Jennifer Vigh Daniels, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner, Nancy Dix, Jim Tranter, John Lobos, Jonathan Okeson, John O'Malia, Ardelle Zervous, Eileen Cantivell, and Jean Greenwood.

 

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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In Christ,

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Rector