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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Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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April 21, 5pm-10pm 
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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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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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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Upcoming Events
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April 21, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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 17
This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter
OT: Numbers 27:12-23
Psalm 100
NT: Acts 13:15-16,26-33(34-39)
Collect: O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of thy people; Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he doth lead; who, with thee and the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, April 17
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 & Dennis Brown
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Quote of the Week
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'Meditate frequently on the sorrows of the Mother of God-sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you go to the crucifix, you will there find the Mother, and, on the other hand, wherever the Mother is, there, also, is the Son.'
-St. Paul of the Cross
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Church Schedule
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The Week of April 17, 2016
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)
· 8:45 a.m. - HomeFront Meal Prep (Kitchen)
· 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, 18 April :: Feria
· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 19 April :: Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury & Martry, 1012
Wednesday, 20 April :: Feria · No Services · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 21 April :: Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 22 April :: Feria
Abstinence Dispensed
Saturday, 23 April :: George, Patron of England & Martyr, 303
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 24 April :: The Fifth Sunday of Easter
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 8:00 a.m. - Church School (Church & Classrooms)
· 10:00 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church) · 11:00 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)
· 4:00 p.m. - A Concert of Hymns & Anthems (North Plainfield)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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April 7, 1199: England's King Richard I, the "Lionhearted," dies at age 41. Richard, as one of the three leaders of the Third Crusade, negotiated Christian access to Jerusalem.
April 7, 1498: Franciscan friars arrange an "ordeal by fire" in Florence to settle the dispute between reforming preacher Jerome Savonarola and Pope Alexander VI. Alexander had excommunicated Savonarola for preaching against papal corruption; Savonarola responded by calling for the pope to step down. If Savonarola's friend Fra Domenico could walk safely between two walls of fire, God was supposedly on the Florentine city-manager's side. But Savonarola never sent Domenico out. The crowd rioted, Savonarola's power crumbled, and he was soon arrested, tortured, and executed.
April 8, 1546: At its fourth session, the Council of Trent adopts Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible (called the Vulgate), completed in 405, as the only authentic Latin text of the Scriptures. It became the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
April 8, 1901: After nearly 30 years of successful church planting in New Guinea, Presbyterian missionary James Chalmers (accompanied by missionary Oliver Tomkins, who had just arrived in the field) sets out to explore a new part of the islands. No one ever saw the two again. A rescue party learned the men had been clubbed to death and eaten by cannibals. When London preacher Joseph Parker heard the news, he exclaimed, "I do not want to believe it! Such a mystery of Providence makes it hard for our strained faith to recover. Yet Jesus was murdered. Paul was murdered ... I cannot but feel that our honored and nobleminded friend has joined a great assembly." April 9, 1816: Richard Allen and others organize the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. The next day he was named the denomination's first bishop, thereby becoming the first black bishop in the United States. A few years earlier, Allen and his colleagues had left the Methodist Episcopal Church when it removed blacks from "white" seats during prayer.
April 9, 1945: The Gestapo hangs German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, after discovering his plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer's last recorded words were, "This is the end-for me, the beginning of life".
April 11, 1079: Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Krakow, is martyred. Whether or not he attempted to overthrow King Boleslaw II (called Boleslaw the Cruel) is debatable; he certainly excommunicated the evil king. In return, Boleslaw deemed him a traitor and had Stanislaus murdered.
April 11, 1506: Pope Julius II lays the foundation for the new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Builders delayed its completion until 1626 due to its immense cost, size, and other factors. Indulgences sold to fund the construction drew criticism from Protestant reformers, most memorably Martin Luther .
April 11, 1836: George Mueller, leader of the Plymouth Brethren movement, opens his famous orphanage on Wilson Street in Bristol. By 1875, Mueller's orphanage provided care for over 2,000 children, a work sustained not by regular fundraising but by thousands of "answers to prayer." April 12, 1850: Adoniram Judson, pioneer Baptist missionary to India and Burma, and Bible translator, dies during a sea voyage. He and his wife, Ann, were the foremost American missionary heroes of their day.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | | |
Mystic, 1433
St. Lydwine is the patroness of sickness Lydwine of Schiedam was born at Schiedam, Holland, one of nine children of a working man. After an injury in her youth, she became bedridden and suffered the rest of her life from various illnesses and diseases. She experienced mystical gifts, including supernatural visions of heaven, hell, purgatory, apparitions of Christ, and the stigmata. Thomas a Kempis wrote a biography of her. She was canonized Pope Leo XIII in 1890. Lydwine suffered a fall while ice skating in 1396, when a friend collided with her and caused her to break a rib on the right side. From this injury, she never recovered. An abscess formed inside her body which later burst and caused Lydwine extreme suffering. Eventually, she was to suffer a series of mysterious illnesses which in retrospect seemed to be from the hands of God. Lydwine heroically accepted her plight as the will of God and offered up her sufferings for the sins of humanity. Some of the illnesses which affected Lydwine were headaches, vomiting, fever, thirst, bedsores, toothaches, spasms of the muscles, blindness, neuritis and the stigmata. Her feast day is April 14.
-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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