Prayer for Christ Church
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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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Jeremy Taylor
August 13, 2015
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Upcoming Events
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September 11, 7pm: 9/11 Evening Prayer (City 9/11 Memorial)
September 12, 4:30pm: Blessing of the Firetrucks
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The 8th Annual Blessing of the Firetrucks
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Electronic Giving
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The summer is a great time to sign up for electronic giving and save the time and paper of standard giving. The benefits include making your pledge and occasional giving fast and easy, and the parish will benefit from a reliable, more efficient and more convenient means to process contributions. To sign up for electronic giving, go to our website at www.ccbtown.com - click on the donation link, and you will be able to select from various opportunities to contribute to our parish and activities. Thank you for your continued support of the mission and ministry of Christ Church! |
Bordentown Farmers' Market
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Every Wednesday from 3pm to dusk  |
The Propers
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For Sunday, August 16
This Sunday is the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Proverbs 9:1-6
Psalm 34:9-14NT: Ephesians 5:15-20
Collect: Almighty God, who hast given thy only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and also an example of godly life: Give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily endeavor ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, August 16
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Emma McDaniels
9:30am: Ed Ackerman & Mary Ellen Carty
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees & Olivia Brovak
9:30am: Open
Acolytes:
5:30pm: Julia Peterson 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
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Quote of the Week
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As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in. ~Edward Bedore
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Church Schedule
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The Week of August 16, 2015
Saturday, 15 August :: The Assumption of the BVM
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)Sunday, 16 August :: The Twelfth 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, 17 August :: Feria
· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 18 August :: William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918
Wednesday, 19 August :: Feria
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 20 August :: Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 21 August :: Abraham of Smolensk, Abbot, 1221
· Normal Friday Abstinence
Saturday, 22 August :: Queenship of the BVM · 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 23 August :: The Thirteenth 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.
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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August 5, 642: Oswald, the king of Northumbria who first began the official establishment of Christianity in England, is martyred in battle against the pagan Penda of Mercia. Converted at Iona, Scotland, Oswald erected a wooden cross before one of his earliest battles and commanded his soldiers to pray. When he defeated the English king in that battle, Oswald commissioned the Irish monk Aidan to begain establishing Christianity.
August 5, 1570: Spanish Jesuits, intent on converting the Native Americans, arrive in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Six months later, Native Americans massacred the group, and the Jesuits ended their work in the region.
August 5, 1604: John Eliot, the "Apostle to American Indians," is baptized. He succeeded in converting over 3,600 Native American, publishing the Bay Psalm Book (the first book printed in America), and forming the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
August 6, 258: Emperor Valerian executes Bishop of Rome Sixtus II preaching a sermon in a cemetery. The emperor originally tolerated Christians, but switched to persecuting them because he believed they were responsible for the plagues, earthquakes, and other disasters that disturbed his reign.
August 6, 1651: Francois Fenelon, Roman Catholic priest and mystical theologian, is born in Perigord, France. His 1697 Explication des Maximes des Saintes is still in print under the title Christian Perfection.
August 6, 1774: Ann Lee and a small band of her followers arrive in New York from Liverpool, England. Though known as the "Shaking Quakers" and later the "Shakers," the millenarian communal society preferred to call itself the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming. They initially did not receive a warm welcome, as they were British and advocated pacifism and celibacy.
August 6, 1801: Revival hits a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. Within a week, 25,000 were attending the revival services. It was the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening.
August 7, 1409: The Council of Pisa, convened by the cardinals to end the Great Schism that had divided Western Christendom since 1378, closes. The council deposed both warring popes as schismatics and heretics, and elected Alexander V. It didn't end the schism (as there were now three warring popes), but it paved the way toward a solution at the Council of Constance in 1417.
August 8, 1492: Albrecht Durer's art is published for the first time when one of his woodcuts serves as the title page for St. Jerome's letters. In a few years, he became one of the most famous painters and engravers in Germany.
August 9, 1788: American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who during his missions work in Burma translated the Bible into Burmese and wrote the first Burmese-English dictionary, is born in Malden, Massachusetts.
August 9, 1883: Robert Moffat, pioneer missionary to southern Africa and inspiration (and father-in-law) to David Livingstone, dies. --taken from Christianity Today
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Pope St. Hormisdas 
Pope, 523
Pope from 514-523, successor to St. Symmachus, and father of Pope St. Silverius Born in Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy, he was an Italian, although he had a Persian name. Married and widowed prior to ordination, he succeeded St. Symmachus on July 21, 514. One of his great achievements was the ending of the Acacian Schism which had divided the Eastern and Western Churches since 484. The Church in Constantinople was reunited to Rome in 519 as a result of the confession called the Formula of Hormisdas. This document was signed by Patriarch John of Constantinople and 250 Eastern bishops. Hormisdas also received Laurentian schismatics into the Church and secured the acceptance of the Tome of Leo I and the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon and the recognition of the authority of the Holy See over the universal Church.
-Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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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.
the dead: Capt. Walter Salmon, Jr.
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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| Sermon Blog | | Domine, non sum dignus
In case you missed it, couldn't hear it, or wish to send it to a friend, Father Matt's sermons can be found online at:
http://etsanabituranimamea.wordpress.com
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St. John's by the Sea in Avalon
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Remember to pray for the parish and people of St. John's by the Sea in Avalon, on whose board sits our own Dave Mohr. Fr. Matt spends two weeks a year serving the people of St. John's. You can read about St. John's here: http://www.stjohnsavalon.org
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| Sermon Blog | | Domine, non sum dignus
In case you missed it, couldn't hear it, or wish to send it to a friend, Father Matt's sermons can be found online at:
http://etsanabituranimamea.wordpress.com
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