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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William Porcher DuBose
August 18, 2016
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Thirsty Thursdays for Bordentown's Bravest
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Tonight, 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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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 21
This Sunday is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Isaiah 28:14-22
Psalm 46
NT: Hebrews 12:18-19,22-29
Collect: Grant, we beseech thee, merciful God, that thy Church, being gathered together in unity by thy Holy Spirit, may manifest thy power among all peoples, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, August 21
Lectors:
8am: Wayne Voorhees
10am: Mary Ellen Carty
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
Setup: Vinnie Stout
Linens: Anne Lyon
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Quote of the Week
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"Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God."
- Pope St. John Paul II
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Church Schedule
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The Week of August 21, 2016
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) Monday, 22 August :: Queenship of the BVM· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 23 August :: Rose of Lima, 1617
· Church Office Closed
Wednesday, 24 August :: St. Bartholomew the Apostle · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 25 August :: Louis, King of France, 1270
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 26 August :: Feria
Normal Friday Abstinence
Saturday, 27 August :: Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle, 1902, 1890
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 28 August :: The Fifteenth 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 11, 1253: Clare of Assisi, a Benedictine nun known for her spiritual relationship with St. Francis and for founding the Poor Clares, dies. In 1958, citing a legend that Clare once saw and heard Mass being celebrated miles away, Pope Pius XII proclaimed her the patron saint of television.
August 11, 1519: Johann Tetzel, the German Dominican priest whose peddling of indulgences inspired Martin Luther to write his 95 Theses, dies. Throughout Germany he infamously preached, "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs." Even the papal envoy eventually criticized him. As for Luther, though he once called Tetzel "the primary author of this tragedy," when he heard Tetzel lay dying, wrote the friar a letter of comfort: "Don't take it too hard. You didn't start this racket".
August 12, 1553: Pope Julius III orders all copies of the Talmud to be confiscated and burned.
August 13, 662: Maximus Confessor, the Eastern leader in the fight against Monothelitism (the heresy that Christ had divine, but no human, will), dies after being tortured for his beliefs.
August 13, 1587: Members of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to Roanoke baptises Manko, the first American Indian convert to Protestantism. August 14, 1248: Construction of the Cologne Cathedral begins. Workers completed it on the same date in 1880.
August 15, 1534: Ignatius of Loyola founds "the company of Jesus," which he described as similar to a group of fur traders, only focused on God's will. In 1540 they gained the approval of the pope, who named them the Society of Jesus. The vision and disciplines of the "Jesuits," as they came to be called, caught the imagination of Europe. Soon Jesuits flocked to Europe's major cities as well as the new world: Gao, Mexico City, Quebec, Buenos Aires, and Bogota. They opened hospices for the dying, sought financial support for the poor, founded orphanages, and opened schools.
August 15, 1549: Spanish Jesuits led by Francis Xavier become the first Christian missionaries in Japan. Xavier went to Japan hoping to eventually reach China. He figured once he evangelized China, Japan's conversion would be much easier because, he believed, Japan looked to China for wisdom. August 15, 1846: Addressing rumors that he mocked Christianity, Abraham Lincoln publishes a broadside on his religion: "That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular . . . "
August 16, 1863: Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation (see issue 33: Christianity and the Civil War).
August 16, 1875: American evangelist Charles Grandison Finney, the leading revivalist of the nineteenth century, dies. --taken from Christianity Today
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Bishop of Niobrara and South Dakota, 1909
William Hobart Hare (1838-1909) was an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, son of George Emlen Hare. He was born at Princeton, N. J., and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He preached in Philadelphia until 1870, was for three years the general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions, and in 1872 was elected Missionary Bishop of Niobrara. He came to Yankton, Dakota Territory in 1873 and his diocese in 1883 was extended to include all of the Dakota Territory. He wrote several pamphlets on missionary work in the West.
He was one of the leading missionaries in America and was called "the Apostle of the West" for his dedicated work in the rural Dakotas among pioneers and Native Americans.
-Wikipedia
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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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