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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, March 13, 2011
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 1. Sunday of Orthodoxy. Translation of the relics of St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople. Martyr Sabinus of Egypt. Martyrs Africanus, Publius and Terence, of Carthage. Martyr Alexander of Macedonia. Martyr Christina of Persia. Ven. Aninas of the Euphrates
DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE
Mar-13 RILEY, A RILEY, J RILEY
Mar-20 WEREMEDIC SENSOR PECK
Mar-25 ANNUNCIATION
Mar-27 SOUDER, C SOUDER, E WALES
Date / Fellowship Hour / Service Duty / Church Cleaners / Greeters / Library13 March / Kraiter Cretu / Souder Poletaev / Peck Dozier / E Torvik
M Elia / Closed
20 March / Gerassimakis
Peck / Gerassimakis / Manna Mihret / V Chalfant
B Peck / Closed
27 March / Morjana Kusumi Whalen / Morjana Harb / Whalen / Poletaevs
A meeting will be held in the Church basement on today at 10:45 am with parents and allpeople interested in teaching church school beginning this fall (September 2011).
Please sign-up as a volunteer to cut grass this summer. We also need someone to make sure that the equipment is repaired; the tractor and the trimmer need some work before the spring season arrives.
St. Michael’s 2011 Gertrude Hawk Candy Sale Fundraiser!
Please have your orders in TODAY.Candy will be available for pickup at the church on April 9-10th. Questions:See Paula Flynn, Harry and Evelyn Kutch or Anne Riley. Thank you for your efforts in making this sale a success!!
Please join us for the next youth group activityon March 27th at12:00 pm (noon) at the "Pleasant Hill Lanes" at 1001 W. Newport Pkin Newport. 5 bowlers to a lane - $8/per person includes shoes and 2 hours of bowling. Kids/adults, all same price. Please RSVP to Juliana or Silvana by MARCH 20so we know how many lanes to reserve.Parents need to transport their own children and they must stay during bowling.
St. Michael’s Multicultural Festival will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2011. Please reserve this day on your schedule.
LENTEN COMMUNITY FOOD DRIVE:
March 6– April 17, 2011
We will collect non-perishable food for the needy in our area. We hope to donate 20 boxes of food. We’d also like to put one Pascha bread (koolich) in each box. Anyone willing to bake bread, please see Colleen Shatley or Suzy Dozier. Cash donations are welcome. Checks to St. Michaels should be earmarked: “ Food Drive”.
Prayers for the Departed: Newly Departed Rachael Chupeck and Mat. Olga Kovach.
Prayers for the Sick and Needy: James & Olga Riley, William Dryden, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, Stephen Kutch, John Elliott, Betty Jean Harb, Nabih & Georgia Harb, Marie Holowatch, Daniel Ruduski, Theophan Shatley, Natalia Romaniouga, Edward Burke, Sofia Golbiw, Marian, Ioana Cretu, Vera Chalfant, Alexandra, Joseph Wojciechowski, Mat. Lisa, Subdeacon Matthew Souder, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter. Daniel Habtegorges dwelling in Libya.
Prayers of Celebration: The newly Illumined Ketevan Sensor, her sponsors Dr. Luke and Anna Wales and her parents Michael and Nino Sensor.
Stephen Conover celebrating his 8th birthday this week.
Lenten Services 2011As most of the Lenten Services are penitential in nature, please refrain from talking as we leave.
Bs. Tikhon will celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy Service at St. Stephen Cathedral in Philadelphia on 3/13 at 4:00 pm.
Presanctified Liturgy, will be on Wednesday (3/16), at 6:00 pm.
Remember to fast in strict abstinence from your noon meal as preparation for Holy Communion. A potluck will follow the Presanctified Liturgy. Please bring something Lenten (strict fast food) to share with others.
If you wish to tell a story of one of your favorite saints for our weekly Wednesday night series, please sign-up on sheet. We will enjoy hearing the life of a saint.
Akathist to our Lord and Savior, JesusChrist, will be on Friday (3/18) at 6:00pm.
Confessions will be heard following the Akathist.
March 20: 4 PM St. Thomas, Cherry Hill, NJ
or St. Nicholas, Coatesville, PA
March 27: 4 PM St. John Chrysostom, Philly
April 3: 4 PM Sts. Peter & Paul, Wilmington, DE
April 10: 4 PM St. Nicholas (OCA-Fr. Bohush-7th Street), Philly
April 17: 5 PM St. Nicholas Serbian, Elkins Park, PA with their Bishop
Hebrews 11:24-26,32-12:2 (Epistle)
By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented- of whom the world was not worthy.
They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
John 1:43-51 (Gospel)
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote-Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." And He said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."