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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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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A Concert of Hymns & Anthems
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April 24, 4pm, at Holy Cross North Plainfield
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The Ascension: Mass & Convocation Meeting
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May 5, 7pm 
Our parish has the honor of hosting the Burlington Convocation on the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
There will be a Sung Mass at 7pm followed by a light reception and a brief meeting of the Convocation. Please plan on attending!
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Upcoming Events
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April 24, 4pm: A Concert of Hymns & Anthems: North Plainfield
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, April 10
This Sunday is the Third Sunday of Easter
OT: Jeremiah 32:36-41
Psalm 33:1-11
NT: Acts 9:1-19
Collect: O God, whose blessed Son did manifest himself to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open, we pray thee, the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, April 10
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Andy Law & Bill Collom
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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Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
-Saint Gerard Majella
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Church Schedule
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The Week of April 10, 2016
Saturday, 9 April :: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pastor, 1945 · 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass & Baptism (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 10 April :: The Third Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass & Baptism (Church)
· 11:00 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall) Monday, 11 April :: William Law, Priest, 1761
· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 12 April :: Zeno of Verona, Bishop & Confessor, 371
· 8:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer w. Angelus (Lady Chapel) · 12:10 p.m. - Low Mass (Lady Chapel)
· 7:30 p.m. - Vestry Meeting (Sacristy)
Wednesday, 13 April :: Feria · No Services · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 14 April :: Feria
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 15 April :: Feria
Abstinence Dispensed
Saturday, 16 April :: Of the Blessed Virgin Mary
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 17 April :: The Fourth Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass & Baptism (Church)
· 11:00 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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April 2, 1877: Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Allen County, Kentucky. At the end of his ministry, he claimed one million converts-including Billy Graham, who made a declaration of faith at a 1934 Ham meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
April 2, 1914: Three hundred Pentecostals meet at the Grand Opera House in Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a ten-day conference. Though originally intended merely to organize annual conferences, by its close, the conference had birthed the Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism's largest denomination.
April 3, 1593: George Herbert, one of England's greatest religious poets, is born in Montgomery Castle. After shocking the country by quitting his skyrocketing political life to become rector of rural Bremerton (a post he held for three years), "Holy Mr. Herbert" died of tuberculosis. But he gained great fame after his death for two posthumous books: The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, and A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson.
April 4, 397: Ambrose of Milan, the most talented bishop of the early church, dies. Biblical exegete, political theorist, master of Latin eloquence, musician, and teacher, he brought Roman Emperor Theodosius I to his knees in repentance after the emperor ordered a massacre of his citizens (This marked the first time the state submitted to the church). But he is perhaps best known for teaching his most famous pupil,Augustine of Hippo.
April 4, 1687: James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence allowing full liberty of worship in England. The government allowed Nonconformists to meet (though justices of the peace had to be notified), forgave penalties for ecclesiastical offenses and no longer required oaths of supremacy and allegiance for those in royal service. Thus the declaration severely threatened Anglican control of church and state.
April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 5, 1649: John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay, dies. Profoundly religious, Winthrop, who left England because of its persecution of Puritans, believed New England to be "a city upon a hill" for the world to see and emulate.
April 5, 1811: Robert Raikes, founder of English Sunday schools in 1780, dies. Raikes built his Sunday schools not for respectable and well-mannered children of believers, but for (in one woman's description) "multitudes of wretches who, released on that day from employment, spend their day in noise and riot." In 4 years, 250,000 students were attending the schools, by Raikes's death, 500,000, and by 1831, 1.25 million. April 6, 1249: Muslims take King Louis IX of France prisoner during the seventh crusade, which was supposed to overcome the Muslim political center in Egypt. After showing bravery in the face of torture, he was allowed to buy his freedom for a huge sum in gold-and the city of Damietta.
April 6, 1801: The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church recognizes the new African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Blacks who were denied membership and/or recognition within white Methodist churches, particularly in Philadelphia and New York, formed the original AME.
--taken from Christianity Today
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Priest, 1595
Jesuit and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Docking, Norfolk, England, and was educated at Cambridge and Day's Inn. Converted to Catholicism, he went to Rome where he entered the Jesuits in 1584. Ordained in 1588, Henry was sent to York, England, where he was arrested and martyred. He was beatified in 1929 and canonized in 1970.
-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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