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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Clare, Abbess of Assisi
August 11, 2016
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The Blessing of the Firetrucks
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9/11 Remembrance Service
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September 11, 7pm, at the City Memorial
Join us at the Bordentown 9/11 Memorial (corner of Farnsworth & Railroad) at 7pm on September 11 for a brief service to honor those who died in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Confirmation and Reception
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Classes Begin September 11 at 4pm 
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. Classes will be held on Sundays at 4pm from September 11 through October 2.
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Bordentown Farmer's Market
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Wednesdays from 3pm to Dusk
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Upcoming Events
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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
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The Propers
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For Sunday, August 14
This Sunday is the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Jeremiah 23:23-29
Psalm 82
NT: Hebrews 12:1-7(8-10)11-14
Collect: Almighty God, who hast given thy only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and also an example of godly life: Give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, and also daily endeavor ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ 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, August 14
Lectors:
8am: Wayne Voorhees
10am: Anne Lyon & Ed Ackerman
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
Setup: Vinnie Stout
Linens: Anne Lyon
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Quote of the Week
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"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand."
-St. Augustine
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Church Schedule
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The Week of August 14, 2016
Saturday, 13 August :: Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667 · 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel) Sunday, 14 August :: The Thirteenth 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) Monday, 15 August :: The Assumption of the BVM· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 16 August :: Stephen of Hungary, King & Confessor, 1038
· Church Office Closed
Wednesday, 17 August :: Feria · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 18 August :: William Porcher Dubose, Priest, 1918
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 19 August :: Feria
Normal Friday Abstinence
Saturday, 20 August :: Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 21 August :: The Fourteenth 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)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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August 5, 642: Oswald, the king of Northumbria who first began the official establishment of Christianity in England, is "martyred" in battle against the pagan Penda of Mercia. Converted at Iona, Scotland, Oswald erected a wooden cross before one of his earliest battles and commanded his soldiers to pray. When he defeated the English king in that battle, Oswald commissioned the Irish monk Aidan to began establishing Christianity.
August 5, 1570: Spanish Jesuits, intent on converting the Native Americans, arrive in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Six months later, Native Americans massacred the group, and the Jesuits ended their work in the region.
August 5, 1604: John Eliot, the "Apostle to American Indians," is baptized. He succeeded in converting over 3,600 Native American, publishing the Bay Psalm Book (the first book printed in America), and forming the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. August 6, 258: Emperor Valerian executes Bishop of Rome Sixtus II preaching a sermon in a cemetery. The emperor originally tolerated Christians, but switched to persecuting them because he believed they were responsible for the plagues, earthquakes, and other disasters that disturbed his reign.
August 6, 1221: Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (or Dominicans), dies, having just confessed his darkest sin-that, though he had always been chaste, he enjoyed talking with younger women more than older ones. He left this "inheritance" to his followers: "Have charity among you, hold to humility, possess voluntary poverty." A mere five years earlier, he had six followers. At his death, he had thousands.
August 6, 1774: Ann Lee and a small band of her followers arrive in New York from Liverpool, England. Though known as the "Shaking Quakers" and later the "Shakers," the millenarian communal society preferred to call itself the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming. They initially did not receive a warm welcome, as they were British and advocated pacifism and celibacy. August 7, 1409: The Council of Pisa, convened by the cardinals to end the Great Schism that had divided Western Christendom since 1378, closes. The council deposed both warring popes as schismatics and heretics, and elected Alexander V. It didn't end the schism (as there were now three warring popes), but it paved the way toward a solution at the Council of Constance in 1417.
August 8, 1492: Albrecht Durer's art is published for the first time when one of his woodcuts serves as the title page for St. Jerome's letters. In a few years, he became one of the most famous painters and engravers in Germany.
August 9, 1788: American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, who during his missions work in Burma translated the Bible into Burmese and wrote the first Burmese-English dictionary, is born in Malden, Massachusetts.
August 9, 1883: Robert Moffat, pioneer missionary to southern Africa and inspiration (and father-in-law) to David Livingstone, dies.
--taken from Christianity Today
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Saint who suffered, 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.
-from Catholic Saints & Angels
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Parish Prayer List
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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 Kurti, Daryl Albury, Lynn Muller, Norman Stull , Muriel Dougherty and Reagon Condron
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.
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St. John's Avalon
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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
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