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 2, 2011
16th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 7. Hieromartyr Cyprian, Virgin Martyr Justina, and Martyr Theoctistus, of Nicomedia. Bl. Andrew, Fool-for-Christ, at Constantinople. Repose of Rt. Blv. Princess Anna of Kashin. Ven. Cassian of Uglich. Martyrs David and Constantine, Princes of Georgia. Righteous Warrior Theodore Ushakóv.
Reader’s Schedule
DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE
Oct 2 RILEY, J RILEY, A WEREMEDIC
Oct 9 WEREMEDIC SENSOR RILEY
Oct 16 SOUDER C WALES WALES
Oct 23 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI PECK
Date / Fellowship Hour / ServiceDuty / Church
Cleaners / Key
Schedule / Library
2 Oct / Hojnicki Flynn Roberts / Riley
Baldytchev / Riley / Sensor / Skomorucha
9 Oct / Kraiter
Cretu / Souder
Poletaev / Carey
Bunitsky / Fr. James / Stoyanov
16 Oct / Manna Mihret Merhane / Gerassimakis. / Peck
Dozier / Brasowski / Dozier
23 Oct / Gerassimakis Peck / Morjana
Harb / Manna
Mihret / Peck / Daubert
Our Church School begins today with a “Molieben for Students Beginning Instruction” service immediately following the Divine Liturgy. Following the veneration of the Cross, students and teachers will be meeting downstairs for Church School orientation. On following Sundays, our teachers and students will venerate the cross first, so Church School begins promptly.
Our Annual Meeting will not occur on October 16th as planned, but will be held on November 13, 2011.
Fellowship Hour: The new Panera Bread in FAIRFAX Shopping Center (Concord Pike) is available for donation pick up Saturday nights at 8:45 pm. You must call 302.428.1796 to schedule your own pick up. See Mona for information.”
Tea Towels are needed for our Parish Hall.
PLEASE call or email Cathy Souder, our purchasing agent, when kitchen supplies are running low (610) 543-0887 or .
The bookstore will place orders for books, icons, CDs, DVDs, etc. from orthodox publishing firms at a 20-40% discount. See Ellen Gundersen for details.
Holy Apostles Orthodox Mission’s 6th Annual Dinner and Silent Auction on Sunday October 16th at 1:30 pm at Radisson Penn Harris in Camp Hill. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Fr. Joseph Huneycutt will present a lecture on “The Way of Christ is Easy, We Make it Hard” at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Bethlehem on Tuesday, October 4 at 7 p. m.
LYRA, a Russian Orthodox Choir Schola from St. Petersburg, will perform on Tuesday, October 11, at 7 pm in St. Helena’s Church, 602 Philadelphia Pike, Bellefonte, DE. No admission fee, but a free will offering will be taken.
A Polish Pottery Bingo will be held on Friday, October 7 at the Millcreek Firehouse sponsored by Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church. For more information, please call 798-4455.
Prayers for the Departed:
The newly departed His Eminence, the Most Reverend Dmitri, Sofia Golbiw, Taisia Drobish, Stylianos Nikolaou Plakakis, Maria Tansura, Gwendolyn O’Connell and Mark.
Prayers for the Sick and Needy:
Steven Hojnicki, deployed to Afghanistan. Fr. John and Mat. Catherine and family, Mat. Mary Bunitsky, Olga and James Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, John Elliott, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Natalia Romaniouga, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter. Anna Buehler and the child she bears.
A new church year has started and St. Michael's Parish Library would like to welcome you in for a visit. We have many books and tapes that will inspire and inform you.
The library staff is in the process of doing inventory and needs your help to bring our collection up to date. If you have library books or tapes that are over due, please return them so they can be counted. The library inventory will give us an accurate picture of our current collection and what items need to be replaced.
Please visit often and we welcome your suggestions for improving the library.
OFFICE HOURS
Fr. James ‘office hours’ at the Church are on Wednesdays 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Thursdays 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. During these hours, the church will be open for everyone to come and pray as well. Please note: our church building is available four out of seven days per week, even if only for a few hours those days. May we one day be blessed keep our doors open each day.
We are updating the ‘Parish Directory’. Please verify the information is correct and, if not, make the necessary changes.
Bible Study will meet on Thursday, October 6th and 20th at 10:00 am in the Church Hall. You are welcome to attend!
2 Corinthians 6:1-10 (Epistle)
We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you."
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.
But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Luke 6:31-36 (Gospel)
And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.
For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.