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Thunder
LotL
Churchyard Project
Choir Fund
Confirmation
Save the Date!
Farmers Market
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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Palladius, Apostle of Ireland
July 7, 2016

Thunder Game

Our Church School trip to see the Trenton Thunder take on the Richmond Flying Squirrels was a wonderful time! Christ Church had 122 people at the game, and the Thunder won!

Lemonade on the Lawn Pictures

It's summer, so it's time for Lemonade on the Lawn!

Churchyard Project

We are pleased to announce that the NJ Historical Trust Grant work has been completed! We have a Christ Church Parish Historical Churchyard Self-Guided Tour booklet which is available at the Parish Office and which can be accessed on our Parish website, here: http://www.ccbtown.com/churchyard.html

Additionally we have a database which contains pictures and information of the 448 individuals interred in our churchyard. Many thanks to all those who have worked so hard to bring it to fruition!
Christ Church Choir Fund Update

The committee's mission is to seek sustainable financing for the choir program into the foreseeable future. Our choir fund drive continues on a positive note. Support has been terrific and a special thank you to all who have generously responded in such short notice. Periodically, we will be meeting to discuss the enhancement of our choir programs. For further information, please contact Diane Law, Chairperson, 609-298-9171.
Confirmation and Reception
Classes Begin in September

Bishop Stokes will visit Christ Church on the afternoon of Sunday, October 9, for his official visitation, which includes Confirmation and Reception. If you desire Confirmation or Reception into the Episcopal Church, please let Fr. Matt know as soon as possible. A book will be given to each candidate, and classes will begin in early September.
Save the Date - Blessing of the Firetrucks
Bordentown Farmer's Market
Wednesdays from 3pm to Dusk


Upcoming Events

July 8, 4pm: Bordentown Traditions Fireworks (J. Lawrence Park)
July 21, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
August 18, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
September 10, 4:30pm: The Blessing of the Firetrucks
September 11, 7pm: 9/11 Memorial Service (City Memorial)
September 15, 5pm-10pm: Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
October 1-2: Cranberry Festival
October 9, 3pm: Bishop's Visitation, Confirmation, and Reception
The Propers
For Sunday, July 10

This Sunday is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

OT:  Deuteronomy 30:9-14           
Psalm 25:3-9
NT:  Colossians 1:1-14
Gospel:  Luke 10:25-37
  
Collect:
  O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people who call upon thee, and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.  
Serving This Week
For Sunday, July 10
                                    
Lectors:
8am: Richard Trout
10am: Bill Collom & Ed Ackerman

Ushers:
8am: Linda Voorhees
10am: Open

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

Setup: Joan Corbo
Linens: Anne Lyon  
Quote of the Week
 
 "It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world."
                                           - St. Aloysius Gonzaga 
Church Schedule
The Week of July 10, 2016 
   
Saturday, 9 July :: Of the Blessed Virgin
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 10 July :: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:30 a.m. - Sung Mass
(Church)
� 10:30 a.m. - Lemonade on the Lawn (Lychgate)  
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
 
Monday, 11 July  :: Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassin0, 540
Church Office Closed

Tuesday, 12 July :: Feria
� Church Office Closed
 
Wednesday, 13 July :: Silas, Companion of Paul, Martyr, 1st Century
� 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
� 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

Thursday, 14 July :: Bonaventure, Bishop of Albano, 1274
� 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing  (Lady Chapel) 

Friday, 15 July :: Translation of St. Swithun, 862
Normal Friday Abstinence 
 
Saturday, 16 July :: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 
� 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) 

Sunday, 17 July :: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
� 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
(Church)
� 9:30 a.m. - Sung Mass
(Church)
� 10:30 a.m. - Lemonade on the Lawn (Lychgate)  
� 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)

This (Past) Week in Church History
 
July 2, 1489: English reformer Thomas Cranmer is born at Aslockton, Nottinghamshire. The archbishop of Canterbury wrote the Book of Common Prayer and was burned at the stake in 1556.

July 2, 1505: A rain storm in Germany helps launch the Protestant Reformation. While returning from a trip to visit his parents, Martin Luther (then a law student) was caught in a violent thunderstorm near Stotternheim. Fearing for his life, he cried, "Help me, St. Anne! I will become a monk!" Within two weeks, he made good on his promise.

July 2, 1752: The first English Bible published in America rolls off presses in Boston.

July 3, 529: The Synod of Orange convenes in southern France. Led by a forceful Augustinian, Caesarius of Arles, the synod upheld Augustine's doctrines of grace and free will while condemning the views of Semi-Pelagians (including John Cassian and Faustus of Riez), who believed the human will and God's grace work together.

July 4, 973: Ulrich, bishop of Augsburg from 923, dies. Twenty years later he would become the first person canonized by a pope.

July 5, 1439: Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholics sign the Decree of Union at the Council of Florence, creating an official union between the two churches. Popular sentiment in Constantinople opposed the decree, and when the Turks captured the city, the union ceased. However, the council's definition of doctrine and its principles of church union (unity of faith, diversity of rite) have proved useful in subsequent church talks.

July 5, 1865: William Booth founds The Christian Mission to work among London's poor and unchurched. Later, he changed the mission's name to the Salvation Army.

July 6, 1054: Church legates of the Roman pope march into the church of Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and place a bull on the altar, excommunicating him. So began of the Great Schism between the Catholics and the Orthodox.

July 6, 1535: Sir Thomas More (b. 1478), who had recently resigned as Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason. He had sided with the pope against Henry VIII in the matter of the king's divorce. He was sentenced to be hanged, but Henry commuted the sentence to beheading .

July 7, 1647: Thomas Hooker, Puritan pastor, political theorist, and founder of Connecticut dies on his sixty-first birthday.

July 7, 1874: Popular New England preacher Henry Ward Beecher demands an investigation by his church into the charges of adultery brought by Theodore Tilton, who later sued Beecher for "alienating his wife's affections." The jury could not decide whether a sexual affair had really taken place.

July 7, 1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, becomes the first American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

--taken from Christianity Today
Saint of the Week
Bl. Ralph Milner
Martyr, 1591    
 
English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by being hanged, drawn, and quartered for giving assistance to Blessed Roger Dickenson. He was beatified in 1929.

-from Catholic Saints & Angels
Parish Prayer List

Of your charity, please pray for:

the sick:  Andy Jones, Irene Fithian, Michelle Miloscia, HollyJones, Carlton Jones, Roxie Clark, Helen Gardiner, Dick Gher, Samantha Mahoney, Robert Fritz, Don Ackert,  Richard Shain, Wynn Mallard, Joe Hand,  Edward Rosina, Holly Jones. Vickie Moricz, Erna Kurpi, Daryl Albury, Scott Warrack, Lynn Muller, Norman Stull, and Muriel Dougherty.

and those who have long term illnesses:  Stephen Vigh, Stella Eichinger, John Moscatiello, Mark Casais, Arthur Jukes, Dixon Leavers, Robin Kintner, John McCoy, Gary Rutherford, Jane Humble, Charles Martin, The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Alice Ward Carriger, Carla Douglas,  Ryan Murray, William Sweeney, Justin McCafferty, Zachary McCafferty, Jeanine Walker, Robert Ackerman, Kelly Bergen, Hannah McNinch, Gabe Fresco, Fr. Ted Anderson, R. Loraine, Burke, Katherine Carter, Shawna Catarinicchia, Mackenzie Sutter,  Daniel Applegate, Alma Poksay, Roberta Cash,  Jennifer Vigh Daniels, Peggy Tunney, Jean Fithian, Jim Tranter, Jonathan Okeson, John O'Malia, Eileen Cantwell, Jean Greenwood, Shaun Neiderman, Mary Dallmann, Patricia Dixon, Dawn Marie Nee, Charles St. George, Gary, Jeanette Poole, Bob Bernard,  Pat Temple, and Danielle Morgan, Jai Autar, Emma Burris, Gloria Jones, Kelley Gilger, Emma Carver, Maria Stout, Lori Forenson, Michael Chahanovich, Rita Haney, Sue Kelly, Pat Skelly, Sister Angela, Sister Gussie, Dee Watkins and Marge Lee. 
 
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.
St. John's Avalon 

Remember to pray for the parish and people of St. John's by the Sea in Avalon, on whose board sits our own Dave Mohr. Fr. Matt spends two weeks a year serving the people of St. John's. You can read about St. John's here: http://www.stjohnsavalon.org
Avalon
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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