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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, October 21, 2012
20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 3. Ven. Hilarion the Great. St. Hilarion, Bishop of Meglin in Bulgaria. Ven. Hilarion, Schema-monk, of the Kiev Caves . Ven. Hilarion, Abbot, of Pskovoezérs. Ven. Theophilus and Jacob, Abbots of Omutch. Martyr Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus, at Nicomedia. Ven. Philotheus of Dionysiou. Ven. Visarion Sarai and Sophronie, of Ciorara, Confessors, and Martyr Oprea of Salistie, in Romania. Reader’s Schedule
DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE
Oct 21 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI PECK
Oct 28 RILEY, A RILEY, J SENSOR
Nov 4 WEREMEDIC SENSOR CARPENTER
Nov 11 RILEY J SOUDER, C CAREY
Date / FellowshipCoffee Hour / Service Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
21-Oct / Bisrat, Conover / Souder
Poletaev / Carey
Bunitsky / Poletaev
28-Oct / Shatley, LaChance
Hines / Gerassimakis / Peck
Dozier / Gundersen
4-Nov / Carey, Bunitsky Poletaev / Morjana
Harb / Manna
Mihret / Skomorucha
11-Nov / Conover
Daubert / Elia / Whalen / Stoyanov
Our Annual Parish Meeting will be today during the fellowship hour.
A Panikhida for Vasily and Helena Obertyschew, offered by her daughter Olga Maloney, will be served immediately following the Divine Liturgy TODAY.
We welcome our visitors and guests and invite you to join us for coffee hour in the church hall following the Liturgy.
A 40th day Panikhida for James Riley, Sr., offered by his son James Riley, Jr., will be on Saturday, October 27th at 4:00 pm.
Our Bible Study Group resumed meeting on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 10:00-12:00 AM at the Church. We continue to use Barbara Pappas's book First and Second Corinthians for direction.
How far would you go for your faith? Could it happen here?
The Orthodox Clergy Brotherhood of Greater Philadelphia, Villanova University and the Russian Area Studies Concentration explore Martyrdom in the contemporary history of the Church in Greece, the Middle East, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine on Saturday, November 10 starting at 9:00 am and concluding at 3:00 pm at Driscoll Hall at Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085-1603. Registration is free.
Fr. Christos Christofidis invites you to a Couples Day Out Workshop hosted by Annunciation Evangelismos Church in Elkins Park, and presented by Father Charles Joanides, Ph.D., LMFT, on Saturday November 10, 2012. Please see the flyer in vestibule for more information.
Year of Faith exhibit including “Icon: the Way to the Kingdom” takes place October 26 to December 16 at the Connelly Center, Villanova, PA. For additional information, please see the flyer in the vestibule of the church.
Prayers for the Departed: The newly departed James Riley, Sr., Helena Scepanovic, Lazor Yanakiev, Carole, Edward, Vasily and Helene Obertyshew.
Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Misha Harrell, deployed to Afghanistan. Alice and William Dryden, Anna and Luke Wales, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, 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.
Diocese of Alaska nominates Archpriest David Mahaffey to vacant See of Sitka and Alaska.
Delegates to the Assembly of the Diocese of Alaska, which met here on September 15, 2012, voted to present the name of Archpriest David Mahaffey in nomination to fill the vacant Episcopal See of Sitka and Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.
Born in Altoona, PA in 1952, Father David was received into the Orthodox Christian faith in 1975, two years after his marriage to the former Karen Meterko. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, South Canaan, PA in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the University of Scranton with Bachelors degrees in Theology and Philosophy. Two years later, he received his Master of Arts degree in theology from the same school.
He was ordained to the diaconate in 1981 and served throughout the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1993, he served as rector of Saint Michael Church, Old Forge, PA until 2006, when he assumed the pastorate of Holy Trinity Church, Pottstown, PA. In 2009, he was assigned rector of Saint Nicholas Church, Bethlehem, which he continues to serve. He and his wife, who fell asleep in the Lord in 2007, raised four children. Father David served as a graduate assistant in the Theology Department of the University of Scranton, adjunct lecturer at Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, and adjunct lecturer in theology and philosophy at Alvernia University, Melrose Park Campus, Philadelphia, PA. He has served in a wide variety of capacities in the Diocese of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, including dean of the Philadelphia Deanery.
Galatians 1:11-19 (Epistle)
But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
Luke 16:19-31 (Gospel)
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. ’And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, ’for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’