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Blessing of the Animals
Cranberry Festival
Compline
Fall Work Day
Thirsty Thursdays
Gift Auction
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
Sermon Blog
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Remigius, Bishop of Rheims
October 1, 2015
Blessing of the Animals

 
Cranberry Festival
October 3-4

The Cranberry Festival is almost here! Sign up sheets are posted on the table in the back of the church, and the fudge recipe and boxes are waiting to be picked up by those interested in making our fudge recipe to be sold at this year's Festival. 

This is a fun event to get involved in!  You can sign up to work at the "booth" on either Saturday or Sunday, help to set up in the mornings or  break down the tables at the end of each day.  Baked goods are needed - cookies, small breads, cakes - the more to sell the better - and cranberries are a key ingredient!  This has been a successful fundraiser for Christ Church, and has become a wonderful tradition!  Please contact Donna Hudak if you have any questions! 

Compline w. Vox Fidelis
Sunday, October 4, 7pm

Join us for beautiful worship with our choir-in-residence, Vox Fidelis. Due to the Cranberry Festival, there will be no reception on the 4th.

Rest of Season: 
November 1, 7pm: Compline & Benediction 
November 15, 7pm: Compline 
December 13, 7pm: Advent Lessons & Carols 
Fall Work Day
Saturday, October 10 Workday 7

Come help beautify the church and grounds for the fall. Work will be done both in and out of doors, and there's plenty to do! Please join us at 9am on October 10.  
Adult Education
Sunday, October 11, 9am

This fall we will be exploring the Nicene Creed as a means of learning about the basics of our Faith. Our first session on the 11th will be an Ask Fr. Matt, a time to ask any question you like. The sessions on the Creed will begin on  All Saints' Day, November 1. Please join us!    
Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
Every Thursday!

Join us at the Farnsworth House to have some fun and raise money for our city's fire companies.

From 5pm to 10pm any beverage purchased (even coffee and other soft drinks) will result in
a $1 donation to Consolidated Fire Association
or Hope Hose Humane. See you there!
Gift Auction Update

The final Gift Auction Meeting is scheduled for October 10th at 9am in the Parish Hall. Please join us to prepare for the Auction on October 18th.

Upcoming Events

October 3-4: Cranberry Festival (Farnsworth Ave)
October 4, 9:15am: Blessing of the Animals
October 4, 7pm: Compline w. Vox Fidelis
October 8, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt (Farnsworth House)
October 10, 9am-11am: Parish Work Day
October 18: Gift Auction
October 26, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt (HOB)
November 2, 12:10pm: Mass for the Solemnity of All Souls
November 7-8: Railroad Days
November 13, 7pm: Favorite Hymns & Anthems
November 14, 9am: ECW Meeting
November 22, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction
November 25: Thanksgiving Meal Prep w. Kiwanis & Consolidated
November 26, 10am: Thanksgiving Day Mass
The Propers
For Sunday, October 4

This Sunday is the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

OT:  Genesis 2:18-24      
Psalm 128
NT:  Hebrews 2:9-18      
Gospel:  Mark 10:2-16
  
Collect:
Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, October 4                                             
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Ed Ackerman & Mary Ellen Carty

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Lisa Jones

Acolytes:
5:30pm: Julia Peterson
8am: Richard Trout, Wayne Voorhees, and Alex Vigh
10am: Mary Ellen Carty and Chris Neal

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Carol Hensley
Linens: Christie Peterson 
Quote of the Week
 
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Church Schedule
The Week of October 4, 2015 
 
Saturday, 3 October :: Therese of Lisieux, 1897
� 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival  
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 4 October :: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:15 a.m. - Blessing of the Animals (Lychgate)
� 10:00 a.m. - Cranberry Festival
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
� 7:00 p.m. - Compline w. Vox Fidelis 
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 5 October :: Feria
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 6 October :: William Tyndale, Priest, 1536 
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)  
 
Wednesday, 7 October :: Holy Rosary of the BVM
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall) 
� 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, 8 October :: Feria
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led 
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)     

Friday, 9 October :: Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253 
Normal Friday Abstinence   
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)  

Saturday, 10 October :: Paulinus, First Archbishop of York, 644
� 9:00 a.m. - Parish Work Day (Church & Grounds)
� 9:00 a.m. - Finance Committee (Parish Hall) 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 11 October :: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
� 9:00 a.m. - Adult Ed (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)

This (Past) Week in Church History
 
September 23, 1595: Led by Fray Juan de Silva, the Spanish begin an intensive missionary campaign in the American southeast. In the following two years, 1,500 Native Americans in the area of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina convert to the Catholic faith.

September 24, 787: The Second Council of Nicea begins under Pope Hadrian I. The council condemned iconoclasm. The Roman Catholic Church considers this as the seventh of the 21 ecumenical councils; the Eastern Orthodox churches consider this the last of the ecumenical councils.

September 24, 1794: Russian Orthodox priest-monk Father Juvenaly, his brother Stephen, and eight other monks arrive at Kodiak Island, Alaska. After two years of ministry, the team had led 12,000 Alaskans to embrace the gospel. Juvenaly then extended his mission to the mainland, where he was reportedly martyred in 1796.

September 25, 1534: Pope Clement VII dies. An unpopular pope, Clement failed to halt Luther's reformation or to implement his own reforms in the Catholic church. Henry VIII asked Clement VII to annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon. The pope's reluctance led to Henry VIII's break from Catholicism.

September 25, 1555: The Peace of Augsburg is signed after the defeat of Emperor Charles V's forces by Protestant princes in Germany (1552). The official recognition of the Lutheran church in Germany, the agreement signified the dissolution of both political unity in Germany and the medieval unity of Christendom.

September 25, 1789: Congress amends The U.S. Constitution to prohibit establishment of a state church or governmental interference with the free exercise of religion.

September 27, 1540: Pope Paul III officially approves the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola.

September 27, 1660: Vincent de Paul (b. 1581) dies. After giving his life to serving the poor, he founded the first Confraternity of Charity in 1617, the Congregation of the Mission in 1625, and the Daughters of Charity in 1633 (the first non-monastic women's order completely given to care of the sick and poor). Canonized in 1737, he was named patron saint of all charitable works in 1885.

September 28, 929: King Wenceslas, ruler and patron saint of Czechoslovakia dies. During his brief reign as king before his brother murdered him, Wenceslas sought peace with surrounding nations, reformed the judicial system, and showed particular concern for his country's poor.

September 28, 1839: Frances E. Willard, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 to her death in 1898, is born in New York. She was influential in the passage of both the 18th and 19th Amendments (prohibition and women's suffrage).

September 29, 1413: Archbishop Arundel condemned Sir John Oldcastle, a follower of John Wycliffe, of heresy. He was given 40 days to recant, during which he escaped and hid in Wales. He remained hidden for a year, until the offer of a large reward prompted someone to betray him. He was then captured and roasted to death.

September 29, 1978: Three weeks after being elected, Pope John Paul I dies while reading a devotional in bed.
 
--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Rhipsime
The Tomb of St. Rhipsime 
Virgin & Martyr, 290           
 
Virgin martyr who was put to death with a group of fellow virgins in Armenia. According to her unreliable acts, she belonged to a community of virgins under the direction of Gaiana in Rome. Renowned for her extreme beauty, she supposedly attracted the attentions of Emperor Diocletian and was forced to flee Rome with the other members of the community. They went first to Alexandria, Egypt, and then settled in Valarshapat, where Rhipsime's beauty again gained notice. Brought before King Tiridates. Rhipsime refused the royal favors and was put to death by being roasted alive. Gaiana and all of the other maidens except one, called Christiana, were massacred by Armenian soldiers. Christiana later became a missionary in Georgia. While it is certain that Rhipsime and the virgins were martyred in Armenia, the details of their deaths were most likely fictitious. They are honored as the first Christian martyrs of Armenia. 

-Catholic Saints & Angels
Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick:  Andy Jones, Charlotte Norcross, Barbara Fusco, Bob Bernard, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Gloria Jones,  Kelley Gilger,  Sister Gussie, Nancy Biocco, Michael Chahanovich, Alice Brumfield, Lori Forenson, Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Jack Young, Carol Pfieffer, Robert Fritz, Maria Stout, Mary Dallman,  Emma Carver, Gloria Garfinkle, Clare Biagini, Rita Haney, Carol Boggs, Irene Fithian, Michelle Miloscia, Betty Ann Laureti, Michael Cook, Peter Sala, Charles St. George, Jaclyn Owens,  Holly Jones, Harry Reed, and Langden Addis.    
 
and those who have long term illnesses:  Stella Eichinger Paula Flesch,  John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Kevin Kintner, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, Gary Rutherford, Jane Humble, Charles Martin, Lyza Lyon,The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Linda Bloom, Michael Slaper, Alice Ward Carriger, Karen Campbell Hillman, Carla Douglas,  Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Raymond Witte, William Sweeney, 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, Linda Sue Slone, R. Loraine Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Mackenzie Sutter,  Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay,  Roberta Cash, Patti Beddia,  Jennifer Vigh Daniels, Peggy Tunneya Jean Fithian, Gwen Boner, Jim Tranter, John Lobos, Jonathan Okeson, John O'Malia, Eileen Cantwell, Jean Greenwood, Shaun Neiderman, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Morgan Ackerman,  and Carol Boggs.
 
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,

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