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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, 6:00 pm

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

Sunday, April 6, 2014

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT. Tone 8. St Mary of Egypt. St. Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs. St. Platonis of Syria. 120 Martyrs of Persia. Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the Presbyter.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Apr-6 WEREMEDIC, L. BUNITSKY, K. PECK

Apr-13 RILEY, J RILEY, A CARPENTER

Apr 20 PASCHA

Apr 27 CARPENTER WEREMEDIC, J.BRASOWSKI

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
6-Apr / Hojnicki/Flynn/Roberts / Souder, Poletaev / Carey/Bunitsky / Gregors
13-Apr / Kraiter, Cretu / Bunitsk, /Kendall / 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.

Please welcome our guest, Dr. Albert S. Rossi, who presented "Prayer and Intimacy with Christ" at our retreat yesterday!


Hebrews 9:11-14 (Epistle)

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood. He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Mark 10:32-45 (Gospel)

Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed. And as they followed they were afraid.

Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that would happen to Him: Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.” And He said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him, “Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.” So Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared.

And when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.


Prayers for the Departed: Fr. Alexander Atty.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Mat. Lisa Weremedic, Linda Fews, Ken and Peggy Reynolds, Christine Roberts, Damarys, Jordan, Julian, Lillian, Benjamin, Elizabeth, William Dryden, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Marie Karawulan, Joseph Wojciechowski, Keith Eldridge, Leon Conover, Stephen Elliott, Joseph P.

Prayers for Celebration: Anne Riley celebrating her birthday this week.

Our Church School will hold our Annual Youth Egg Hunt on St. Thomas Sunday.

Lenten Mission Vespers on April 6th will be held at Holy Assumption, Philadelphia at 4:00 pm.

As most of the Lenten Services are penitential in nature,

please refrain from talking as we leave.

Joint Parish Presanctified Liturgy, will be on Wednesday (4/9), at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Philadelphia Pike at 6:00 pm.

Remember to fast in strict abstinence from your noon meal as preparation for Holy Communion.

An Akathist to the St. Michael the Archangel will be on Friday (4/11) at 6:30 pm.

Lazarus Saturday’s Divine Liturgy, Saturday (4/12), at 9:00 am.

Lenten Alms Giving

We are collecting for women/men's prisons in the green bin in the narthex. Please donate bibles and toiletries (Toothpaste, Deodorants, Soaps, Shampoos.) Cash donations are welcome and will be used to purchase bibles. Thank you for your generosity in your alms giving.

Our Bible Study Group continues to meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon. We continue to use Barbara Pappas's book First and Second Corinthians for direction.

The Bling Tea being held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 2 PM to 4 PM at St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church, Gradyville, PA 19039. Reservations required, please call or email Nancy Pcsolyar (610) 359-1700 or .


HOLY WEEK SERVICES:

Bridegroom Matins: Sunday at St. Stephen Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA at 4:00 pm.

Bridegroom Matins: Holy Monday at St. Michael’s at 6:00 pm.

Presanctified Liturgy: Holy Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm.

The Lord’s Supper: Holy Thursday at 9:00 am. This service His Grace, Bishop Mark commemorates the Last Supper that our Lord. Attending this Service had with His Disciples before His Betrayal.

The 12 Passion Gospels: Holy Thursday evening at 6:00pm.

At this service, 12 Gospel readings of Christ’s Betrayal and Trial are read.

Royal Hours: Holy Friday at 9am. Come stand by our Lord’s Cross as He is crucified.

Burial Vespers: Holy Friday at 3pm. Here Christ is taken down from the cross and placed in a new tomb.

Matins-Lamentations: Holy Friday at 6:30pm. Lamentations at the Tomb, with outdoor procession.

All Night Watch: Holy Friday night to Holy Saturday morning: Stand watch at the Tomb of Christ by reading the Psalms throughout the night.

Vesperal Liturgy: Holy Saturday at 9:30 am. St. Basil’s Liturgy, with 15 Old Testament Readings prophesying the Resurrection and the Kingdom of Heaven.

PASCHA Service: Holy Saturday at 11:30pm. Mid-night candlelight procession, Paschal Matins and Paschal Liturgy, followed by the blessing of baskets and the Agape Meal.

Paschal Vespers: Sunday afternoon at 1pm. The Readings of the Gospel in Many Languages, and an outdoor Paschal procession.

Divine Liturgy: Bright Monday at 9:00am.