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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Gift Auction Report
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The Gift Auction was a great success! The fabulous array of gift baskets attracted many and we raised over $5000! Pictures to come.
The Gift Auction is a huge undertaking, and to big thanks to Darrell Vigh, Loris Johnson, and the great team of folks who did such great work! Thanks also to all those who came out, had a great time, and supported the mission of our parish.
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Riverfest Report
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The Christ Church booth did brisk business at Riverfest! We raised some funds and over 5000 people saw the Christ Church banner. Thanks to those who helped make the day great!
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Bordentown Halloween Parade
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Sunday, October 25, 2pm
Come out and see our own Genevieve Trout as the Grand Marshall of the Halloween Parade, sponsored by the Consolidated Fire Association. Remember to bring new socks to donate!
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Football w. Fr. Matt
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Monday, October 26, 8:30pm at the HOB 
Come on out to the HOB to watch the Ravens take on the Cardinals. Monday Night Football and a good time with friends.
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Adult Education
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Beginning Sunday, November 1, 9am  This fall we will be exploring the Nicene Creed as a means of learning about the basics of our Faith.
The sessions begin on All Saints' Day, November 1, and run from 9am to 9:45am in the Parish Hall.
Please join us!
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Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis
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Sunday, November 1, 7pm  Join us for sung Sarum Compline & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, led by Vox Fidelis.
Reception to follow at the Rectory.
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The Solemnity of All Souls
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A Concert of Hymns & Anthems
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Friday, November 13, 8pm
Join us to hear the choirs of Christ Church Parish, Grace Presbyterian Church, Jenkintown, PA, and the Church of the Holy Cross, North Plainfield, NJ as they sing hymns and anthems that are favorites of congregations throughout the ages.
Including works by Vaughn Willams, Parry, Ireland, and Howells.
The congregation will be invited to join the choir in singing the hymns.
Reception in the parish hall to follow.
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Jonathan's Buddies Fundraiser
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Friday, November 13, 6pmJoin us at the Bordentown Elks to support Jonathan and help fight Chiari!
Jonathan Okeson is a fun, loving, energetic little boy who has been living with Chiari his entire life. He has undergone numerous surgeries an is currently in the hospital. Jonathan has many supporters including his mother Kim Okeson, father Fred Okeson and brother JR. Kim is a great stay at home mom for the boys an dad is a corrections officer as well as a volunteer firefighter in Bordentown City. Please help join us an be apart of the support system for Jonathan and Chiari malfunction.
Chiari malformation (kee-AH-ree mal-for-MAY-shun) is a condition in which brain tissue extends into your spinal canal. It occurs when part of your skull is abnormally small or misshapen, pressing on your brain and forcing it downward.
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Citrus Sale
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Our Citrus Fruit Sale is now underway and we will be taking orders through the middle of November. Delicious and juicy Tangelos, along with Pink Grapefruit and Navel Oranges will be available before the holiday season. The fruit is picked, packed and shipped Grade A fancy fruit within 72 hours. If you have any questions, please call Andy Law at 298-9171 or Donna Kirk at the church office 298-2348.
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Thanksgiving Outreach
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Our parish is partnering with the Kiwanis and Consolidated Fire Association to bring meals and joy to those most in need this Thanksgiving. We will be providing Thanksgiving meals for 50 people on the day before, delivering when needed. Look for updates and specifics in next week's Angelus!
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Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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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!
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Upcoming Events
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October 26, 8:30pm: Football w. Fr. Matt (HOB)
November 1, 7pm: Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis
November 2, 12:10pm: Mass for the Solemnity of All Souls
November 7-8: Railroad Days
November 13, 8pm: Favorite Hymns & Anthems
November 14, 9am: ECW Meeting
November 15, 7pm: Compline w. Vox Fidelis
November 22, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction
November 25: Thanksgiving Meal Prep w. Kiwanis & Consolidated
November 26, 10am: Thanksgiving Day Mass
December 13, 7pm: Advent Lessons & Carols w. Vox Fidelis
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The Propers
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For Sunday, October 25
This Sunday is the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Isaiah 59:(1-4)9-19
Psalm 13 NT: Hebrews 5:12-6:1, 9-12
Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, October 25
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Susan Preston & Mary Ellen Carty
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Kate Williamson
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: Kate Williamson
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Quote of the Week
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The saints did not all begin well, but they all ended well.
-St. John Vianney
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Church Schedule
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The Week of October 25, 2015
Saturday, 24 October :: St. Raphael the Archangel · 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 25 October :: The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 8:45 a.m. - Ask Fr. Matt (Church School Classroom)
· 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, 26 October :: Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
· Church Office Closed
· 8:30 p.m. - Football w. Fr. Matt (HOB)
Tuesday, 27 October :: Feria
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Wednesday, 28 October :: Ss. Simon & Jude, Apostles · 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, 29 October :: James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa and His Companions, Martyrs, 1885
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 30 October :: Feria
· Normal Friday Abstinence
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 31 October :: All Hallow's Eve
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 1 November :: The Feast of All Saints'
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 9:00 a.m. - Adult Ed: Teaching through the Creed (Parish Hall)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
· 7:00 p.m. - Compline & Benediction w. Vox Fidelis (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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October 15, 1880: Germany's Cologne cathedral is completed, 633 years after construction began.
October 15, 1900: Charles Fox Parham opens Bethel Bible Institute in Topeka, Kansas, where Agnes Ozman and other students would speak in tongues and begin the Pentecostal movement.
October 15, 1932: A small party of supporters gathers in Liverpool, England, to send Gladys Aylward, a 28-year-old parlormaid, off on a dangerous missionary journey to China. Though she'd been turned down by the missions agency she applied to, she went on to become one of the most amazing single woman missionaries of modern history. Her dramatic rescue of a hundred orphans is told in the movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman.
October 15, 1949: Billy Graham skyrockets to national prominence with an evangelistic crusade in Los Angeles.
October 16, 1311: The Council of Vienne opens to decide if the Templars, a military order sworn to protect Christian pilgrims, are heretical and too wealthy. Pope Clement V decided to suppress the order. Its leader was burned and members' possessions taken by the church. That decision was adamantly derided by the poet Dante and by later historians.
October 16, 1555: English reformers Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake at the order of Roman Catholic Queen Mary Tudor.
October 16, 1701: Unhappy with growing liberalism at Harvard, Congregationalists found Collegiate School, later known as Yale.
October 16, 1859: Militant messianic abolitionist John Brown leads a group of about 20 men in a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). Brown believed that only violent action would end slavery and that a massive slave uprising would bring God's judgment upon unrepentant American Southerners. Furthermore, he believed that God had anointed him as the cleansing agent for his country's sin. But when the slaves around Harper's Ferry failed to rally to Brown's cause, he was overpowered. He was arrested, tried, and hanged.
October 16, 1925: The Texas State Text Book Board bans evolutionary theory from all its textbooks.
October 16, 1978: The Roman Catholic College of Cardinals chooses Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope. Taking the name John Paul II, he became the first non-Italian pope in 456 years.
October 20, 751: Pepin the Short, son of Frankish hero Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne, deposes the last of the Merovingian kings and becomes the first king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II, who later asked for his help when threatened by Lombards of northern Italy. Pepin defeated the Lombards, then ceded the territory he captured back to the pope, laying the foundation for the papal states.
October 20, 1349: Pope Clement VI condemns self-flagellation, speaking out against a veritable flagellation frenzy. The practice, first taught by the Benedictine monk Peter Damian in the mid-eleventh century, gained popularity during the thirteenth-century Black Death scare and continues today in isolated incidents. --taken from Christianity Today
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Bishop & Martyr, 304
Bishop of Heraclea and martyr. During the persecution of the Church under Emperor Diocletian, Philip was arrested along with his deacon Severus and two other clergy, Hermes and Eusebius. Taken before the magistrate, Blassus, they were ordered to hand over the Sacred Scripture, but refused. Moved to Adrianople, they were burned at the stake. All four share the same feast day.
-Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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Of your charity, please pray for:
the sick: 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 Tunney, 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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