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Compline
Lenten Program
Stations
Thunder Game
Scholarships
Thirsty Thursdays
Upcoming Events
The Propers
Serving This Week
Quote of the Week
Church Schedule
This Week in Church History
Saint of the Week
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Lenten Feria
February 18, 2016

Compline w. Vox Fidelis
Sunday, February 21, 7pm

Join us at 7pm on Sunday, February 21, for Sung Sarum Compline with Vox Fidelis.

Beautiful worship followed by a reception in the Rectory!

Lenten Program
The People of the Stations

This Lenten season we will be taking a look at the people who populate the Stations of the Cross. Join us at 9am on February 28, March 6, and March 13 to hear and discuss people like Pontius Pilate, Simon of Cyrene, Veronica, the Women of Jerusalem, and Joseph of Arimathea.

Stations of the Cross
Every Friday in LentStations

Stations of the Cross will be offered 
every Friday in Lent, beginning  on February 12 at 6 p.m.  The Christ Church Stations are beautiful and haunting, and they serve to remind us of the sacrifice Jesus made on our behalf.  Remember that each one of us can walk the Stations on our own as well, in private devotion.  Please plan on joining us.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

The church will be purchasing tickets for the July 2 Trenton Thunder game at 7 p.m. There will be fireworks after the game.   All church school teachers and students are free. Each student may bring one friend. All other adults and children over 12 years of age pay the group rate of $8.00 each.  

This year one church school student will be picked to throw out the first pitch! There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in front of the church office.   If you have any questions, please contact Andy Law at 298-9171.
Bishop 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.  
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!
Upcoming Events

February 21, 7pm: Compline w. Vox Fidelis
March 4-5: Diocesan Convention
March 12, 9am: Altar Guild Easter Prep Day
March 19: 5K Water Table
March 23, 7pm: Sung Stations of the Cross w. Vox Fidelis
The Propers
For Sunday, February 21

This Sunday is the Second Sunday in Lent

OT:  Genesis 15:1-12,17-18                  
Psalm 27:10-18
NT:  Philippians 3:17-4:1           
Gospel:  Luke 13:31-35
  
Collect:
 O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from thy ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of thy Word, Jesus Christ thy Son; who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, February 21                                                 
 
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Donna Lundeen & Anne Lyon

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Anne Lyon

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

Altar Guild:
Preparation: Vinnie Stout
Linens: Anne Lyon  
Quote of the Week
 
"Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most."   
           - G.K. Chesterton
 
Church Schedule
The Week of February 21, 2016 
  
Saturday, 20 February :: Lenten Feria (Ember Day) 
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 21 February :: The Second Sunday in Lent
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 8:45 a.m. - HomeFront Meal Prep
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)   
· 7:00 p.m. - Compline w. Vox Fidelis (Church) 
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
 
Monday, 22 February :: St. Peter's Chair at Antioch
· Church Office Closed
 
Tuesday, 23 February :: Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr of Smyrna, 156
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) 
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) 
     
Wednesday, 24 February :: St. Matthias the Apostle
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Ave Regina (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, 25 February :: Ethelbert, King & Confessor, 560
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing  (Lady Chapel) 

Friday, 26 February :: Lenten Feria
Special Devotion   
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) 
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel) 
· 6:00 p.m. - Stations of the Cross (Church)  
 
Saturday, 27 February :: George Herbert, Priest, 1633 
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 28 February :: The Third Sunday in Lent
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 9:00 a.m. - Adult Education: The People of the Stations
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)     
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

This (Past) Week in Church History
 
February 10, 60 (traditional date): The Apostle Paul is shipwrecked at Malta.

February 10, 1535: A dozen Anabaptists run stark naked through the streets of Amsterdam. Such strange actions, usually by Melchoirite Anabaptists, led to the group's ridicule by Protestants and Catholics alike. Former Catholic priest Menno Simons (1496?-1561) was finally able to bring the group into a nonresistant, discipled, and disciplined vision.

February 12, 1663: Congregational minister Cotton Mather is born in Boston. The most celebrated New England writer of his day, he was a scientist (whose work included early studies of inoculation), one of the founders of Yale University, and pastor of Boston's Second Church (just as his father, Increase Mather, had been). He also wrote Wonders of the Invisible World, a description of the Salem witch trials.

February 12, 1809: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States and author of the Emancipation Proclamation, is born near Hodgenville, Kentucky.

February 12, 1865: Presbyterian minister and militant abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet becomes the first African-American to address the U.S. House of Representatives.

February 14, 270: According to tradition, Valentine, a priest in Rome during the reign of Claudius II, is beheaded along the Flaminian Way. One explanation for Valentine's subsequent relationship to the romantic holiday is this: Claudius, seeking to more easily recruit soldiers, removed family ties by forbidding marriage. Valentine ignored the order and performed secret marriages-an act that led to his arrest and execution.

February 14, 1760: Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is born. The first African-American ordained by the Methodist church, Allen also a co-founded the Free African Society, America's first organization founded by blacks for blacks.

February 15, 1386: Jagiello, king of the Lithuanians, is baptized. His conversion, the condition of an alliance with Poland, marks the end of established paganism in Europe.

February 15, 1860: Wheaton College (formerly Illinois Institute), one of evangelicalism's top institutions of higher education, is chartered in Illinois.

February 15, 1905: Christian author Lew Wallace dies at age 77. Wallace famous Ben Hur (1880) conceived on a train ride while arguing about Christ's divinity with famous agnostic Robert Ingersoll. It sold more than 300,000 copies in a decade, making him one of the best-selling religious authors of the 1800s.

February 16, 1801: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church receives its charter. Five years earlier, black members of New York City's John's Street Methodist Episcopal Zion Church left the church over racist limitations imposed on them. They had not been allowed to preach or vote until Bishop Francis Asbury allowed them to hold their own meetings apart from the John's Street church.

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
St. John Theristus
Monk, 1129   
 
Benedictine monk, called Theristus or "Harvester." He was of Calabrian lineage, born in Sicily. His mother was a slave of the Saracens. John escaped at a young age and became a monk.

-from 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, Emma Carver, Gloria Garfinkle, Clare Biagini, Rita Haney, Irene Fithian, Michelle Miloscia, Michael Cook, Charles St. George, HollyJones, Wade Ronin Sipler, Bill Webb, Carlton Jones, Jim Tucker, Roxie Clark, Sister Angela, Dee Watkins, Hans Ruhlandt, Helen Gardiner, and Dick Gher.
 
and those who have long term illnesses:  Barbara Fusco, Stella Eichinger, 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, 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, Jonathan Okeson, John O'Malia, Eileen Cantwell, Jean Greenwood, Shaun Neiderman, Cheryl Leavers-Morrow, Morgan Ackerman, Carol Boggs, Mary Dallman, and Patricia Dixon. 
 
those in military service:  Ben Skarzynski, USMC; Col Kelly Scott, USAF; Neil Gerrish, USNG; Abbygale Albert, USN, James F. Preto, USNG, Frank L Blades Jr, USA, and Chris Neal, USN.
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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,

Fr. Matt+
Rector