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 24
This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday of Easter
OT: Acts 13:44-52
Psalm 148
NT: Revelation 19:1,4-9
Collect: Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, April 24
Lectors:
5:30pm: Eliza Peterson
8am: Emma McDaniels
10am: Ed Ackerman & Mary Ellen Carty
Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Kate Williamson & Susan Preston
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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'That which would have easily been remedied at first, becomes incurable by time and habit.'
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Church Schedule
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The Week of April 24, 2016
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) Monday, 25 April :: St. Mark the Evangelist
· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 26 April :: Feria
Wednesday, 27 April :: Feria · No Services
· 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 28 April :: Feria
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 29 April :: Catherine of Siena, 1380
Abstinence Dispensed
Saturday, 30 April :: The Holy Abbots of Cluny, 10th-11th C.
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 1 May :: The Sixth 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)
· 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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April 15, 1452: Italian painter and scholar Leonardo da Vinci is born in Florence, Italy. Among his most famous religious works are the Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, and St. John the Baptist.
April 15, 1638: The castle of Hara, located on the Shimabara Peninsula, Japan, falls to invaders. Masuda Shiro Tokisada defended the fortress with 37,000 Christians, 17,000 of them combatants. They fought valiantly to the end-even the women and children. After the battle, all of the survivors were subsequently beheaded, save one Judas (Yamada) who had plotted to open the castle gate to the enemy.
April 15, 1889: Belgian Roman Catholic priest Joseph Damien, a missionary to lepers on Molokai, Hawaii, dies from the disease.
April 16, 1879: Bernadette Soubirous, who at age 14 became famous for her visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, dies in Nevers, France. In 1933 the Roman Catholic church declaired her a saint.
April 17, 1492: Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella give Christopher Columbus a commission to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia. Though he was also interested in wealth, Columbus saw himself as a "Christ-bearer" who would carry Christ across the ocean to people who had never heard the gospel.
April 17, 1937: With Mussolini's troops occupying Ethiopia, Sudan Interior Mission missionaries who had started a small church among the previously devil-worshiping Wallamo tribe are forced to leave the country. "We knew God was faithful," one missionary wrote. "But still we wondered-if we ever come back, what will we find?" The missionaries returned in July 1943 to find that, despite severe persecution by Italian soldiers, the Christian community had grown from 48 members to 18,000.
April 19, 526: Justinian I is crowned Roman Emperor in Constantinople's magnificent cathedral, the Santa Sophia. Attempting to restore political and religious unity in the eastern and western empires, he ruthlessly attacked pagans and heretics and created the Code of Justinian, a massive restructuring of law (including much regarding the relationship of church and state) that would be the basis of legislation for nearly a millennium.
April 19, 1529: At the Diet of Speyer (Germany), princes and 14 cities draft a formal protest of Charles V's attempt to crush Lutheranism, defending religious freedom for religious minorities, e.g. those involved in the Reformation movement. From then on, the Reformers were known as "Protestants."
April 20, 1441: At the Council of Florence, Pope Eugenius IV issues the bull "Etsi non dubitemus," declaring the pope to be superior to church councils.
April 20, 1718: David Brainerd, missionary to New England's Native Americans, is born in Haddam, Connecticut. Expelled from Yale for attending a revival meeting, Brainerd attained fame after his death (at age 29, from tuberculosis) when Jonathan Edwards published his journal. The diary inspired countless other missionaries, including William Carey, who is called "the father of modern missions".
April 20, 1853: Fugitive slave Harriet Tubman, who had escaped from the eastern shore of Maryland four years earlier, makes a return trip to the South to rescue other slaves. By the time slavery was abolished, she had made 19 such trips, liberating at least 300 fellow African Americans.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | | |
Franciscan, 1894
Franciscan mystic and lay brother. Born Carl Birndorfer in Parzham, Bavaria, Germany, on December 22, 1818, he became a Capuchin lay brother in 1849. For more than thirty years, Conrad served as porter or doorkeeper of the shrine of Our Lady of Altotting, and he was known for his Marian devotions. Conrad had the gift of prophecy and of reading people's hearts. He died in Altotting on April 21. He was canonized in 1934.
-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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