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St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church

2300 W. Huntington Drive, Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, Delaware 19808

Rev. James Weremedic, Rector • (302) 995-6775 • Cell (570) 764-4323

Email: • Web: www.stmichael-delaware-oca.org

Vespers & Confessions: Saturday, 5:00 pm

Hours, Divine Liturgy & Fellowship: Sunday, 8:40 am

Sunday, January 13, 2013

32nd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 7. Afterfeast of the Theophany. Sunday after Theophany. Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus of Belgrade. Ven. Irenarchus, Recluse, of Rostov. Ven. Eleazar of Anzersk Island. Martyr Peter of Anium, at Hieropolis. St. James, Bishop of Nisibis. St. Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers. Ven. Maximus Kavsokalyvites.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Jan-13 BRASOWSKI WEREMEDIC CAREY

Jan-20 RILEY, J RILEY, A PECK

Jan-27 CARPENTER WEREMEDIC SENSOR

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
13-Jan / Gerassimakis
Bunitsky / Souder
Poletaev / Baldytchev
Fox / Nichols
20-Jan / Morjana, Open
Bisrat / Bunitsky
need help / Shatley / Farrell
27-Jan / Shatley, Hines LaChance / Morjana
Harb / Kutch
Sulpizi / Gregors

Immediately following Divine Liturgy will be a 7-year Panikhida for Irene Scarloss, offered by her daughter, Susan Skomorucha, and a 1-year Panikhida for Barry Barrentine offered by his wife, Helena Barrentine.

St. Michael’s Building Faith and Fellowship Silent Auction

Please remember to drop off “Basket of the Month” Items in the vestibule of the church. This month items are:

Christmas Holiday Basket – ornaments, home décor items, cards, candles…

Let’s Read! – Kindle, Nook, books, gift cards, bookmarks, reading light…

**Items must be new, unopened and quality merchandise.

Teen Winter Retreat 2013
Come Join the Fun! Join us the weekend of February 8-10, 2013, for the annual Winter Teen Retreat of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania. Hang out with old friends, meet new ones, and create memories while learning about the lives of the twelve apostles with Fr. Stephen Vernak. Registration forms are available at www.ocayouth.org. A flyer for this event can be found in the Vestibule. For more information call: 570-493-0108, or E-mail: Visit: www.ocayouth.org

The 2013 Parish Council Oath of Office will occur TODAY, Sunday, January 13, 2013.

President Susie Dozier

Vice-President James Carpenter

Treasurer (shared duties) Harry Kutch

Corr. Secretary Olga Maloney

Recording Secretary Susan Skomorucha

Purchasing Agent(shared duties) Maryanne Farrell/Ellen Gunderson

Financial Secretary(shared duties) Pearl Minnich/Jon Whalen and team

Trustee Sergey Baldychev

Auditors: James Riley, Michael Sinovich, Evelyn Kutch

2013 Delegate Diocesan Assembly: Michael Sensor

Alternate: Connie Gerrismakis

The Parish Council will hold our first monthly meeting of the newly installed 2013 parish council in the Conference room on Thursday, January 17th at 6:30 pm. As we have several items that may require discussion, please plan two hours for this meeting.

Prayers for the Departed: Robert Bixler, Irene Scarloss, Barry Barrentine.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Fr. Stephen Siniairi, Shawn McGee, Florence, Alice and William Dryden, Anna and Luke Wales, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, Stephanie, Andrew, Tory Bucks, Peggy Reynolds and Deborah Welker. Daria. Mark and Ellen who are traveling.

Prayers for Women and the Children to be Born of Them:

Ruth Kendall, Analyn Peck, Amanda Weremedic, Elizabeth Clause.

Epiphany Retreat

Holy Trinity, Ss. Peter and Paul and St. Michael the Archangel churches will not hold the Ephiphany Retreat as previously announced. We are planning to hold a Lenten Youth Retreat on March 2, 2013. More information to follow. Volunteers are needed: please see Fr. James.

Mary Ann Farrell ( tel: 3024388624) and Ellen Gundersen ( tel: 6103880695) will be new Purchasing Agents for 2013. They will stock kitchen and bathroom items, but please notify them if you notice that supplies are low. There is also a “shopping list” the kitchen near small sink.

Service Duty Volunteers Meeting

A meeting of the Service Duty Volunteers will be held after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, January 20th in the Church. If you wish to volunteer or have any questions, please see James Riley.


Ephesians 4:7-13 (Epistle, Sunday After)

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended” – what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Matthew 4:12-17 (Gospel, Sunday After)

Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”