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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Maundy Thursday
March 24, 2016
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Schedule for the Remainder of Holy Week
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Thursday, 24 March :: Maundy Thursday
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
· 7:00 p.m. - Sung Mass w. Maundy, Procession to the Altar of Repose, Stripping of the Altars, and Vigil (Church)
Friday, 25 March :: Good Friday
Special Devotion
· 12:00 a.m. - Continuance of the Vigil (Lady Chapel)
· 12:00 p.m. - Closing of the Vigil (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Said Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified (Church)
· 6:30 p.m. - Stations of the Cross (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - Sung Solemnities & Mass of the Presanctified (Church)
Saturday, 26 March :: Holy Saturday
· 9:00 a.m. - Altar Service (Lady Chapel) · 8:00 p.m. - The Great Vigil of Easter (Church)
Sunday, 27 March :: Easter Sunday
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass of Easter (Church)
· 9:00 a.m. - Church School Easter Event
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass of Easter (Church) · 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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Holy Week Devotions
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At the Maundy and the Vigil
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The Flowering of the Cross
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Easter Sunday, between the Masses 
Church School parents and kids: remember to bring flowers on Easter for the flowering of the Cross!
We'll have plenty of flowers here just in case!
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The Easter Corporal
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Since 1964, our parish has been blessed to use a beautiful set of sacred linens on Easter and during the Easter season. Given in memory of Emilie A. R. Reeder by the Fourth Floor Lab, Columbian Carbon Company of Trenton NJ in December of 1963, the Easter Set has served generations of the faithful here at Christ Church.
The picture at right is an image of the Corporal, the largest of the sacred linens, on which the elements rest for the Eucharist. You will note the significant damage to the very place where the priest's Host rests during the Mass. Unfortunately, the damage cannot be repaired, and so this Corporal will be destroyed by fire, as is required. It will burn in the new fire at the Easter Vigil, adding honor to honor.
My thanks to Donna Lundeen, who graciously inspected the Corporal and who determined the level of damage, and who has done much to preserve the sacred linens and vestments of the parish.
--MT+
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Churchyard Ministry
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The care of our Churchyard is an important ministry! Not only is it nice to have our grounds looking well kept, but caring for the Churchyard is a big part of caring for the beloved dead buried therein.
We need your help! The Churchyard is mowed once every 7 to 14 days in the spring and summer months. Please consider taking on this vital and fulfilling ministry.
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Allied Recycling Fundraising
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Spring is here !!! At least it is this week - but if you are like me, you spent some time outside enjoying the weather. So, as you venture out and are looking at the tools and equipment in your garage or shed, remember Allied Scrap will take any metal hoes, rakes, shovels, etc. that need to be replaced. That old grill.......Call the office for drop off times so we can put it in the garage for the next scheduled pick up.
Remember, Allied Scrap has been a partner that gives up income almost every month. Every dollar helps!
Stay tuned for information as we will be having a "Dumpster Day" in the Spring !!!
--Darrell Vigh
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He Is Alive - A Play at Fountain of Life
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 Remaining Dates:
Thurs March 24th 7:30pm
Fri March 25th 7:30pm
Sat March 26th 11:00am & 4:00pm
Sun March 27th 6:00pm
For free tickets please email vs.0814@yahoo.com or text 201-341-9391.
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Upcoming Events
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March 27, 9am: Church School Easter Event
May 5, 7pm: Ascension Day Sung Mass & Convocation Meeting
May 8, 9am: Mothers' Day Breakfast
May 8, 10am: May Crowning
May 14: Iris Festival
May 15: Compline w. Vox Fidelis
May 21-22: Bordentown Street Fair
May 22, 4pm: Evensong & Benediction
May 28, 11am: Memorial Day Solemnities
May 29: Church School Recognition & 1st Holy Communion
July 2, 7pm: Trenton Thunder Game
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The Propers
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For Sunday, March 27
This Sunday is Easter Sunday
OT: Isaiah 51:9-11
Psalm 118:14-17,22-24
NT: Acts 10:34-44
Collect: O God, who for our redemption didst give thine only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection hast delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ thy Son 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, March 27
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 & Dennis Brown
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Quote of the Week
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"Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection."
- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Church Schedule
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The Week of March 27, 2016
Saturday, 26 March :: Holy Saturday
· 9:00 a.m. - Altar Service (Lady Chapel) · 8:00 p.m. - The Great Vigil of Easter (Church)
Sunday, 27 March :: Easter Sunday
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass of Easter (Church)
· 9:00 a.m. - Church School Easter Event
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass of Easter (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall) Monday, 28 March :: Monday in Easter Week
· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 29 March :: Tuesday in Easter Week
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) · 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Wednesday, 30 March :: Wednesday in Easter Week · 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, 31 March :: Thursday in Easter Week
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) self-led
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 1 April :: Friday in Easter Week
Abstinence Dispensed
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel)
· 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
Saturday, 2 April :: Saturday in Easter Week
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 3 April :: The Second Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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March 17, 1780: Thomas Chalmers, pastor, social reformer, and one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland (FCS), is born. By his death in 1847, he had started missions in hundreds of poor urban settings, and he led a third of the Scottish clergy and a half of the laity of the church of Scotland into FCS in 1843. His chief concern throughout his life was the evangelization of the urban poor.
March 18, 1314: Thirty-nine Knights Templar are burned at the stake in Paris. Though few others besides Dante championed the innocence of the oft-maligned military order, most scholars now agree with him. Created to protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land, had become wealthy after the crusades. Perhaps because of jealously, they were accused of sodomy, blasphemy, and heresy.
March 19, 1684: Jean Astruc, the founder of modern Pentateuchal criticism, is born in France. In 1753 he published an anonymous treatise positing that Moses used two earlier documents-called "Yahweh" and "Elohim" to designate which name for God was used in each-when he wrote the Pentateuch. The theory, which was first met with ridicule, was later expanded by J.G. Eichhorn.
March 19, 1928: Roman Catholic theologian Hans Kung is born in Germany. Appointed the official theologian of the Vatican II Ecumenical Council, he was later denied permission to teach as a Catholic theologian when his views began to challenge many traditional doctrines (like papal infallibility).
March 20, 1747: Severely ill with tuberculosis, Presbyterian missionary David Brainerd ends his work among the Native Americans of Delaware.
March 21, 1146: At the urging of Bernard of Clairvaux (one of the most famous theologians and monks of his day), France's King Louis VII announces he will lead the Second Crusade to regain the crusader capital of Edessa. When he failed two years later, Christians were devastated that a crusade preached by a moral exemplar and led by royalty could fail.
March 21, 1656: James Ussher, calvinist theologian and archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, dies. Famous for his chronology of the Bible (which placed the creation of the world in 4004 B.C.), he also created a history of the Latin Church and the articles of faith for the Church in Ireland. Respected by Christians of all traditions, he was given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.
March 21, 1965: Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., leads more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. By the time they reached their destination four days later, the group had expanded to 25,000.
March 22, 337: Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, dies at age 47. As emperor, he issued an edict officially tolerating Christianity, though he did little to stave off paganism. He also summoned the Council of Nicea to settle the Arian dispute over the nature of Christ.
March 22, 1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Questioned about her teachings on grace, she insisted she had received divine revelations. When her examiners asked how she knew these came from God, she replied, "How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the Sixth Commandment?" Although Hutchinson repented of her "errors," her questioners decided she was lying and banished her from the colony.
March 22, 1758: Jonathan Edwards, America's greatest theologian, dies from the effects of a smallpox vaccination after arriving in New Jersey to accept the presidency of what is now Princeton University.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | | |
Martyr, 1620
Martyred foe of the Hussites. He was born on December 20 at Skotschau, in Austrian Silesia, and educated at Prague. He was ordained in 1607 and served in various parishes, defending the faith against the Hussites. In 1618, at the start of the Thirty Years' War, the Protestants seized the local government. Two years later, Jan was taken prisoner at Olmutz and was tried by the Hussites. He was racked and tortured and died on March 17. He was canonized in 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
-from Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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Of your charity, please pray for:
the sick: Janice Jones, 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, HollyJones, Wade Ronin Sipler, Bill Webb, Carlton Jones, Jim Tucker, Roxie Clark, Sister Angela, Dee Watkins, Helen Gardiner, Dick Gher, Samantha Mahoney, Robert Fritz, and Suzanne Lagay, and Marge Lee.
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, Mary Dallman, Patricia Dixon, Dawn Marie Nee, Charles St. George, and Jeanette Poole.
those in military service: Ben Skarzynski, USMC; Col Kelly Scott, USAF; Neil Gerrish, USNG; Abbygale Albert, USN, James F. Preto, USNG, and Chris Neal, USN.
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