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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, December 2, 2012

26th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 1. Prophet Habákkuk. Ven. Athanasius “the Resurrected One”, Recluse, of the Kiev Caves. Ven. Afanásii, Recluse, of the Kiev Caves. Martyr Myrope of Chios. Ss. John, Heraclemon, Andrew, and Theophilus, of Egypt. St. Jesse, Bishop of Tsilkansk in Georgia. St. Stephen-Urosh, King of Serbia.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Dec 2 WEREMEDIC SENSOR WEREMEDIC

Dec 9 SOUDER C BRASOWSKI RILEY, J

Dec 16 CARPENTER WALES WALES

Dec23 RILEY, A RILEY, J PECK

Dec 30 CARPENTER WEREMEDIC CAREY

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
2-Dec / Lemlem Kiflemarian / Souder
Poletaev / Kutch / Poletaev
9-Dec / Manna, Mihret Berhane / Gerassimakis / Riley / Gundersen
16-Dec / Elia, Gunderson Farrell / Morjana
Harb / Carey Bunitsky / Skomorucha
23-Dec / Souder/Riley / Elia / Peck
Dozier / Stoyanov
30-Dec / Open House
at the Rectory / Riley
Baldytchev / Manna, Mihret / Dozier

We welcome our visitors and guests and invite you to join us for coffee hour in the church hall following the Liturgy.

A Silent Auction Committee meeting will be held on Sunday, December 9th after Divine Liturgy in the Conference Room. Anyone interested in helping out with this fundraiser should talk to Paula Flynn. We will need your help to make this event successful.

Epiphany Retreat

Holy Trinity, Ss. Peter and Paul and St. Michael the Archangel churches will hold an Ephiphany Retreat at St. Michael, Wilmington, DE on January 26, 2013 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm for High School Students (Grades 8th to 12th). Registration Fee $10.00. More information to follow. Volunteers are needed: please see Fr. James.

The Bible Study on December 6th will be at the Church Hall. However, there is a slight change in time since this will be a Church Holy Day. Services will start at 7:00 and probably finish after 8:15-8:30, and following the services we will have a light breakfast. So we will probably be ready to start our session earlier than 10:00. Hope to see you all. Elizabeth

The Philadelphia Deanery’s annual St. Herman's Lecture will be held at St. Stephen's Cathedral, 8598 Verree Road, Philadelphia, PA on Sunday, December 9, 2012,beginning with an Akathist to St. Herman at 5:00 PM, followed by a lecture (6:00 PM) by Hieromonk David (Mahaffey). The topic for this year’s lecture is Parish Revitalization through a Gospel Centered Vision. The Gospel Centered Vision is the first of eight focus areas in the Diocesan Parish Revitalization Plan. Our parish council members and interested parishioners can be introduced to this process by attending this opportunity. Refreshments will be served following the lecture.

The Bookstore Christmas Shop in the Social Hall includes many orthodox items under $10. If you wish to order icons, cards, jewelry, books, cds, and dvds at a discount, stop by to look at our catalogs.

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia.

Wednesday, Dec. 5, Vespers with Litya at 7:00 pm.

Thursday, Dec. 6, Divine Liturgy at 7:00 am. Bible Study to follow.

Prayers for the Departed: The newly departed Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Fr. Stephen Siniairi, 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, Cindy Peck, Peggy Reynolds and Deborah Welker.

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

Julia Whalen, Elizabeth Clause.

Prayers for Celebration should be submitted (preferably via e-mail) to Fr. James by Wednesday of the week prior to birthdays, name’s day and anniversaries so they can be included in the bulletin, prayed for during Vespers, and Divine Liturgy.

All our clergy, active and retired, and their families, together with the widowed matushki, are cordially invited to a congratulatory dinner given in honor of our former archpastor on his election as Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of all America and Canada. This diocesan tribute will take place on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s Center, 308 Delaware Street, Jermyn. This dinner will be free of charge. We look forward to all our clergy, active and retired, along with widowed matushki joining us for this special gathering. Please respond to the Diocesan Center (570-937-9331) by Monday, December 3, so we can establish an accurate headcount of adults and children. Sincerely yours in Christ, V. Rev. John Kowalczyk, Chancellor


Ephesians 5:9-19 (Epistle)

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.” See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Luke 18:18-27 (Gospel)

Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.”

So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

And those who heard it said, “Who then can be saved?” But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”