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Concert
Thanksgiving
Citrus Sale
Fill the Truck
Chiari Fundraiser
Evensong
Adult Ed
Thanksgiving
Advent Prep Day
Blue Christmas
Thirsty Thursdays
Scholarships
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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Charles Simeon
November 12, 2015

A Concert of Hymns & Anthems
Tomorrow, 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.
 

Fill Fr. Matt's Truck for Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 19, 6-10pm

Christ Church is partnering with Hope Hose Humane Fire Company #1 to help stock the Good Neighbor Food Pantry this Thanksgiving. During Thirsty Thursday's for Bordentown's Bravest on the 19th, bring any of the following items to put in the back of the truck and you'll receive a change to win a fabulous Thanksgiving gift basket!

Bring items such as canned fruit, cranberry sauce, instant potatoes, stuffing mix, gravy, vegetables, soups, macaroni and cheese, pie crust mix, powdered juices and tea, peanut butter and jelly jars, bread, and anything you feel would be needed for the holiday that is food related.  
Get Your Citrus Order In Now!
orange
Get your order in now!
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.
Thanksgiving Outreach

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. To take part, look for the sign-up sheet and recipes on the table near the office or speak to Fr. Matt.
Jonathan's Buddies Fundraiser
Friday, November 13, 6pm

Join 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.
 

Christ the King Evensong - Celebrating 180 Years!
Sunday, November 22, 4pm 

Come celebrate on Sunday, November 22, at 4pm for Evensong & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament followed by a Parish Reception.

Celebrating 180 years of mission and ministry in Bordentown!  
Adult Education
On Scheduled Sundays, 9am
 

This fall we will be exploring the Nicene Creed as a means of learning about the basics of our Faith.

Upcoming Sundays:

November 22
November 29
December 6
December 13

Thanksgiving Day Mass
Thursday, November 26, 10am

Come give thanks to the Lord for all the blessings of this life on Thanksgiving Day. 10am Said Mass w. Hymns. 
Thanksgiving
Advent Prep Day
Saturday, November 28, 9am  
 
An Advent preparation day will be held on Saturday morning, November 28, starting at 9:00. We will prepare for the season of Advent as well as polish items to be used during the Christmas season.

Blue Christmas Service
 
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!
Van Duzer Scholarship

Applications are being accepted now for 2016 Van Duzer Scholarships. High school seniors going onto college or other recent high school graduates who will be entering their first year of study at an accredited post-secondary school are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2016.

 You'll need to complete an application form and a number of other items, so it'll be helpful to start early if you plan to apply.  Application forms are available in the parish office.
Upcoming Events

November 13, 8pm: Favorite Hymns & Anthems
November 15, 11:30am: ECW Meeting
November 19: Fill Fr. Matt's Truck for Thanksgiving
November 22, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction
November 25: Thanksgiving Meal Prep w. Kiwanis & Consolidated
November 26, 10am: Thanksgiving Day Mass
November 28, 9am: Advent Prep Day
November 28, 4:40pm: Bordentown City Tree Lighting
December 11, 7:30pm: Blue Christmas Service (St. Mary's)
December 13, 7pm: Advent Lessons & Carols w. Vox Fidelis
December 19, 5:30pm: Advent Pageant, Vigil Mass, Pizza Party
December 24, 6pm & 11pm: Christmas Eve Masses
December 25, 10am: Christmas Day Mass w. Carols
The Propers
For Sunday, November 15

This Sunday is the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost

OT:  Daniel 12:1-4          
Psalm 16:5-11
NT:  Hebrews 10:31-39       
Gospel:  Mark 13:14-23
  
Collect:
 Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that, by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, November 15                                       
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: 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: Joan Corbo
Linens: Christie Peterson   
Quote of the Week
 
"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither."
                                 - C.S. Lewis 
Church Schedule
The Week of November 15, 2015 
   
Saturday, 14 November :: Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784  
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 15 November :: The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
� 8:45 a.m. - HomeFront
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
� 11:30 a.m. - ECW Meeting (Parish Hall) 
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Monday, 16 November :: Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093
� Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 17 November :: Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)   
     
Wednesday, 18 November :: Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
� No Rosary or Mass - BCFA Memorial Service
� 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Thursday, 19 November :: Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led 
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) 
� 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Fill Fr. Matt's Truck (Farnsworth House)
 
Friday, 20 November :: Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870 
Normal Friday Abstinence   
� 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
� 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)   

Saturday, 21 November :: Presentation of the BVM  
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 22 November :: The Feast of Christ the King
� 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
� 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
� 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
� 4:00 p.m. - Evensong & Benediction 
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

This (Past) Week in Church History
 
November 5, 1414: The Council of Constance opens to end the Great Schism. It deposed all three rival popes, but it also executed Bohemian reformers Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, and anathematized the teachings of John Wycliffe.

November 6, 1315: Poet Dante Alighieri is sentenced to death, in absentia, by the magistrates of Florence. Dante, who was at the time working on his Comedy in Venice, avoided the penalty by never returning to Florence, from which he had been exiled for political reasons.

November 7, 739 (traditional date): Willibrord, a missionary monk who was trained in Ireland and traveled over northwestern Europe, dies. Called the "Apostle of Frisia," he was highly instrumental in the conversions of Germany and Scandinavia.

November 7, 1637: Anne Hutchinson is convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her idea that believers are so united with the Holy Spirit that human categories (like moral law) are irrelevant, and her claim of direct revelation from the Holy Spirit rather than Scripture, caused many of her supporters (including influential minister John Cotton) to back off. Hutchinson was later killed in New York in an American Indian raid.

November 7, 1837: Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered in Alton, Illinois. A newspaper editor whose press was destroyed by vandals three times, he was accused of inciting slaves to revolt when he defended a black man burned at the stake by a mob. When another mob tried to burn down his warehouse, Lovejoy was shot trying to save it. His death helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement.

November 8, 1308: John Duns Scotus, the hard-to-follow Scottish theologian who first posited Mary's immaculate conception (that she herself was born without original sin), dies in Cologne, Germany. Mary's immaculate conception was declared dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854.

November 8, 1674: English poet John Milton, author of Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained (1671), and many other works, dies at age 65.

November 9, 1799: Asa Mahan, Congregational clergyman and first president of Oberlin College, is born in Verona, New York.

November 10, 1770: French anti-Christian philosopher Francois Voltaire utters his famous remark, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

November 10, 1908: Ten years after Samuel Hill and John Nicholson met in Boscobel, Wisconsin, to begin what would become Gideons International, the organization places its first Bible in a room at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountains, Montana.

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. Emilian Cucullatus
Priest & Hermit, 573               
 
One of the patron saints of Spain, called La Cogalla, "the Cowled." A shepherd from La Rioja, in Navarre, Spain, he was ordained a priest after many years as a hermit. He was made pastor of the parish in Berceo but became a hermit again. In time so many joined him that he founded a hermitage that became the Benedictine Abbey of La Cogalla.

-Catholic Saints & Angels
Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick:  Charlotte Norcross, Bob Bernard, Pat Temple, Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Gloria Jones, Kelley Gilger, Sister Gussie, Nancy Biocco, Michael Chahanovich, Lori Forenson, Michael Vaughan, Zachary Forsberg, Jack Young, Carol Pfieffer, Maria Stout, Mary Dallman, Emma Carver, Gloria Garfinkle, Clare Biagini, Rita Haney, Carol Boggs, Irene Fithian, Michelle Miloscia, Michael Cook, Peter Sala, Charles St. George, Holly Jones, Wade Ronin Sipler, Bill Webb, and Patricia Dixon.
 
and those who have long term illnesses:  Barbara Fusco, 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, Michael Slaper, Alice Ward Carriger, Karen Campbell Hillman, Carla Douglas, Ryan Murray, Lester Sickels, Raymond Witte, William Sweeney, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, Mario Batist, Robert Ackerman, Paul Wesley Morrison, Kelly Bergen, Bill Yale, Hannah McNinch, Gabe Fresco, Fr. Ted Anderson, R. Loraine Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Mackenzie Sutter, Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay, Roberta Cash, Patti Beddia, Jennifer Vigh Daniels, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, 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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