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, August 7, 2011

8th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 7. Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples. Finding of the Relics of St. Mitrophanes, first Bishop of Voronezh. Ven. Pimen the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves. Ven. Pimen, Faster, of the Kiev Caves. St. Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk. Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Cæsarea in Palestine. Ven. Horus of the Thebaïd. Virgin Potamia the Wonderworker. Ven. Dometius of Philotheou on Mt. Athos. The “VALAAM” Icon of the Most-holy Theotokos.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Aug 7 RILEY, J RILEY, A RILEY

Aug 14 WEREMEDIC SENSOR WALES

Aug 15 DORMITION

Aug 21 SOUDER, C RILEY J PECK

Aug 28 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI CARPENTER

Date / Fellowship Hour / Service Duty / Church Cleaners / Greeters / Library
7 Aug / Carey Bunitsky Poletaev / Elia / Riley / E Torvik M Elia / Skomorucha
14 Aug / Gunderson Elia / Riley Baldytchev / Shatley / B Peck / Stoyanov
21 Aug / Bisrat Frehiwot Kidane / Bunitsky / Carey Bunitsky / Poletaevs / Dozier
28 Aug / Kutch / Souder Poletaev / Peck
Dozier / Bunitskys
4 Sept / Bacuta Family / Gerassimakis / Manna
Mihret / N Morjana S Stoyanova / Dozier

A clean-up of the church basement will take place on Sunday, August 21, 2011 immediately after coffee hour. All parishioners are asked to help in this effort to prepare the basement for more active use in our church, and to make God's House as clean as possible. Please help us make this event as productive as possible by removing any kitchen supplies or other items which should be stored in the social hall or elsewhere in the church complex before the clean-up day. Because of some of the work which needs to be done in this project, please consider bringing old clothes to change into.

2012 Parish Council

We are making plans to hold our Annual Meeting in October. If you are interested in serving on the Parish Council for the calendar year 2012, please submit your name to James Carpenter,Vice-president, and also speak to Fr. James to ensure you are in “Good Standing” both financially and spiritually.

Bible Study Group

Our Bible Study Group will meet on August 18th at 10:00 AM at the Church. Although this group started many years ago, you can come and participate at this time without having to worry about where the group is in their process. So please take time to meet with fellow Orthodox Christians, read Holy Scripture and discuss the passages to realize (Illumine) practical applications within our lives.

St. Mark’s Orthodox Church, Wrightstown, PA is holding a Summer Retreat on August 13th. This year’s theme is “Purity of Heart and the Vision of God”, present by Fr. Theodore Heckman. Please see flyer in the vestibule for further information.

Our Next Parish Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 23rd at 6:30 pm in the Parish Conference Room.

Prayers for the Departed:

The newly departed Michael Mizgala, and Daniel Ruduski.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy:

Steven Hojnicki, deployed to Afghanistan. Anna Hotrovich, Anne, James & Olga Riley, William Dryden, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, Stephen Kutch, John Elliott, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Natalia Romaniouga, Edward Burke, Sofia Golbiw, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter, Stephanie Hojnicki, Linda Sensor, Joseph Francis, Effie Mavrelos, Barbara Hicks, Janet, Aurora. Anna Buehler and the child she bears.

Troparion (Transfiguration)

You were transfigured on the mountain, O Christ God,

revealing Your glory to Your Disciples as

far as they could bear it.

Let Your everlasting Light also shine upon us sinners,

through the prayers of the Theotokos!//

O Giver of Light, glory to You!

Kontakion (Transfiguration)

On the mountain You were transfigured, O Christ God,

and Your Disciples beheld Your glory as

far as they could see it;

so that when they would behold You crucified,

they would understand that Your

suffering was voluntary,

and would proclaim to the world//

that You are truly the Radiance of the Father.

1 Corinthians 1:10-18 (Epistle)

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul," or "I am of Apollos," or "I am of Cephas," or "I am of Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? Thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, I lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.
Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Matthew 14:14-22 (Gospel)

And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."
But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat." And they said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish." He said, "Bring them here to Me." Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass.
And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children. Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away.