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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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
September 8, 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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Cranberry Festival
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October 1 -2
The Cranberry Festival is coming! It's almost time once again for one of the City's best loved festivals and one of our most successful fundraising events of the year. Volunteers will be needed to staff the table and to provide baked goods and fudge for sale. Christ Church bakers and candymakers have a well-earned reputation for having some of the best goodies to be found at the Cranberry Festival, and there are quite a few Festival regulars who come to our table each year looking for their favorites. A detailed sheet with tips for bakers and our Christ Church Easy Fudge recipe and sign up sheets are at the table at the rear of the sanctuary, so please let us know if you can help. Please note: if you're bringing baked goods or fudge, please bring them to the Christ Church table at Farnsworth and West Church Street (in front of the book store) between 9:00 and 10:00 on the morning of the 1st. 
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The Blessing of the Animals
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October 2 at 9:15
All creatures great and small are welcome to come and be blessed! 
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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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Upcoming Events
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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
September 29-October 1: Preaching Conference
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, September 11
This Sunday is the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
OT: Exodus 32:1,7-14
Psalm 51:1-11
NT: 1 Timothy 1:12-17
Collect: O God, forasmuch as without you we are not able to please thee, mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Serving This Week
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For Sunday, September 11
Lectors:
8am: Wayne Voorhees
10am: Andy Law & 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
Setup: Carol Hensley
Linens: Loris Johnson
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Quote of the Week
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"Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the Cross can man better understand how much he is worth."
-St. Anthony of Padua
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Church Schedule
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The Week of September 11, 2016
Saturday, 10 September :: Alexander Crummell, Priest, 1898
· 11:00 a.m. - Baptism (Baptistry)
· 4:30 p.m. - The Blessing of the Firetrucks (Grounds) · 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Church)
· 6:15 p.m. - Firetrucks Barbecue (Grounds) Sunday, 11 September :: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
· 8:00 a.m. - Low Mass (Church)
· 9:30 a.m. - Sung Mass (Church)
· 4:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class (Parish Hall)
· 7:00 p.m. - 9/11 Remembrance Service (City Memorial) Monday, 12 September :: John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830· Church Office Closed
Tuesday, 13 September :: Cyprian, Bishop & Martyr of Carthage, 258
· Church Office Closed
Wednesday, 14 September :: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross · 6:00 p.m. - Tai Chi (Parish Hall)
· 8:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
Thursday, 15 September :: Seven Sorrows of the BVM
· 10:00 a.m. - Low Mass w. Anointing (Lady Chapel)
Friday, 16 September :: Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, 430
Normal Friday Abstinence
Saturday, 17 September :: Hildegard of Bingen, 1179
· 5:30 p.m. - Vigil Mass (Lady Chapel)
Sunday, 18 September :: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
· 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 (Church)
· 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Hour (Nursery)
· 4:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class (Parish Hall) · 7:00 p.m. - A.A. Meeting (Parish Hall)
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This (Past) Week in Church History
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September 3, 590: Gregory I ("the Great") is consecrated pope. Historians remember him as the father of the medieval papacy and last of four Latin "Doctors of the Church." He was the first pope to aspire to secular power, the man for whom Gregorian Chant is named, and one of the main organizers of Roman liturgy and its music. He was also one of the prime promoters of monasticism.
September 3, 1752: This day and the next 10 never happen in Great Britain as the kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582) to replace the inaccurate calendar created by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Riots break out as Brits argue the government just stole 11 days from their lives.
September 4, 1736: Robert Raikes, an English newspaper editor who founded Sunday schools (which met from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) to educate poor children, is born in Gloucester.
September 4, 1842: After a 284-year hiatus, construction of the Cologne Cathedral continues.
September 6, 1620: With 101 colonists and 48 crew members aboard, the Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England. Thirty-five colonists board ship, Separatists from Leiden, Holland, and later known as the Pilgrims.
September 6, 1651: Obadiah Holmes, who had been arrested for preaching Baptist doctrine, is given 30 lashes with a three-corded whip in Boston Commons. During the beating, he was so filled with divine joy that he told the magistrates, "You have struck me with roses." His punishment occasioned the conversion of Henry Dunster, president of Harvard, to the Baptists, and led to the founding of Boston's first Baptist church.
September 7, 1807: English missionary Robert Morrison, 25, becomes the first Protestant missionary in China. Catholic missionaries beat Protestants by some 225 years-Jesuit Matteo Ricci first arrived in 1582 September 8, 1157: Richard I (Lion-Heart) of England, leader of the Third Crusade, is born.
September 8, 1565: Settlers form the first Roman Catholic Parish in America is formed in St.Augustine, Florida.
September 8, 1845: English clergyman John Henry Newman converts to Roman Catholicism. Newman had been a leading member of the Oxford Movement, which aimed to reform the Church of England, but he became convinced that the Anglicans had lost their episcopal moorings and had wrongly severed themselves from apostolic succession.
--taken from Christianity Today
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| Saint of the Week | |
Abbot, 597
In the troubled and violent Dark Ages in Northern Europe, monasteries served as inns, orphanages, centers of learning, and even as fortresses.The light of civilization flickered dimly and might have gone out altogether if it had not been for these convent-shelters.
Columba, a stern and strong monk from Ireland, founded three such establishments. He founded the monasteries of Derry and Durrow in his native Ireland, and the island monastery of Iona on the coast of Scotland. Iona was the center of operations for the conversion of the Scots and Picts, and became the most famous religious house in Scotland. There Columba baptized Brude, King of the Picts, and later a King of the Scots came to this Abbot of the "Holy Isle" for baptism.
[Geographic note: If you look at a map of Scotland, you will see a huge gash across the country from northeast to southwest. This has been slightly augmented by artificial digging to make a shipping canal. As you emerge from the southwest end of the gash, the large island of Mull is on your right. At the southwest tip of Mull lies the tiny island of Iona.]
The historian Bede tells us that Columba led many to Christianity by his "preaching and example." He was much admired for his physical as well as spiritual prowess. He was a strict ascetic and remained physically vigorous and unflagging in his missionary and pastoral journeys throughout his seventy-six years of life. The memory of Columba lives on in Scotland, and Iona, though desecrated during the Reformation, today houses a flourishing ecumenical religious community.
--by James Kiefer
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Parish Prayer List
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Of your charity, please pray for:
the sick: Irene Fithian, Michelle Miloscia, HollyJones, Carlton Jones, Roxie Clark, Helen Gardiner, Dick Gher, Samantha Mahoney, Don Ackert, Richard Shain, Joe Hand, Edward Rosina, Vickie Moricz, Erna Kurti, Daryl Albury, Lynn Muller, Norman Stull , Reagon Condron, Donna O'Gorman, Carl Luthke, and Sister Pat
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, 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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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+
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