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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, 4:00 pm

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

Sunday, March 2, 2014

SUNDAY OF CHEESEFARE Tone 3. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia. St. Arsenius, Bishop of Tver. Virgin Martyr Euthalia of Sicily. Martyr Troadius of Neo-Cæsarea. Ven. Agathon of Egypt. 400 Martyrs slain by the Lombards in Sicily.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Mar-2 SOUDER, C WEREMEDIC, L. PECK, B

Mar-9 BUNITSKY, S. BUNITSKY, K. BRASOWSKI, S

Mar-16 RILEY, A RILEY, J RILEY, J.

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church
Cleaners / Library
2-Mar / Cheesefare / Souder Poletaev / Finck / Gregors
9-Mar / Kutch, Sulpizi / Bunitsky, Kendall / Whalen / Dozier
16-Mar / Bacuta, Mihret / Elia, Morjana / Shatley,Baldytchev / Gundersen
23-Mar / Elia, Farrell Gunderson / Riley Baldytchev / Kutch Sulpizi

We will be celebrating CheeseFare on Sunday, March 2nd with a potluck luncheon following the Divine Liturgy. Forgiveness Vespers, marking the beginning of Great Lent, will be held following the Cheesefare Luncheon and Parish Council Meeting. Please be ready to forgive all during the Rite of Forgiveness. VISIT OUR LIBRARY FOR LENT!

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

A Good Samaritan Collection will be taken Today and the first Sunday of each month. Please be generous with your offering.

The Parish Council will hold our monthly meeting in the Church on Sunday, March 2, 2014 (after Cheesefare fellowship and before the Forgiveness Vespers), to discuss the implementation of the Policies, Standards and Procedures.

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.

Forgiveness Through the Sacrament of Confession:

Whether we are aware of it or not, we sin as a part of our everyday life. Humans, as a whole, are exceptionally good at it. As Orthodox Christians, we acknowledge our sinful nature each week, prior to communion, as we say a prayer declaring ourselves the first among sinners. The sins we commit are often subtle, and may not even be noticed by others, but each little sin we commit drives us further away from God. With a priest as the sacramental witness, we are able to remove this growing gap and strengthen our relationship with God through the sacrament of confession.

Forgiveness Sunday - The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise

On this encore presentation of "Speaking the Truth in Love," Fr. Thomas Hopko, Dean Emeritus of St. Vladimir's Seminary, reflects upon the expulsion of Adam from Paradise, one of the two themes of Forgiveness Sunday. http://www.ancientfaith.com


Romans 13:11-14:4 (Epistle)

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

Matthew 6:14-21 (Gospel)

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting.

Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


Prayers for the Departed: Alice Dryden, Nicholas Holowatch,Wendy Boyer, Joseph Fakhir.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Mat. Lisa Weremedic, James Petrides, Christine Roberts, William Dryden, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Marie Karawulan, Joseph Wojciechowski, Keith Eldridge Leon Conover, Michael and Beatrice Flynn.

Prayers for Celebration:

Suzi Dozier celebrating her birthday this week.

The newly illumined Celina (Sophia) and Christina (Catherine) Hamwi, their sponsors Victor Saliba & Hiam Hamoi and Mtanyous Georges & Ibtesam Massa and their parents Haytham Hala Hamwi.

The newly born Jackson "Jack" Christopher Riley and his parents Joshua and Katie Riley.

A 4-yr. Panikhida will be held after the Divine Liturgy today for Nicholas Holowatch offered by his daughter, Karen Hojnicki.

A 40th day Panikhida will be held on Tuesday, March 4th at 5:00 pm for Wendy Boyer offered by her daughter Laura Whalen.

A 40th day Panikhida will be held on Monday, March 10th at 5:00 pm for Alice Dryden offered by her family.

Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete will be on Monday (3/3), Tuesday (3/4), and Thursday (3/6) at 6:30 pm. Confessions will be heard following the Great Canon each evening. Please exit the Church in Silence.

Presanctified Liturgy will be on Wednesday (3/5), at 6 pm.

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

An Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos will be on Friday (3/7) at 6:30 pm.

As most of the Lenten Services are penitential in nature,

please refrain from talking as we leave.

The Sunday of Orthodoxy Service will be held at St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church, Cherry Hill, NJ on 3/9 at 4:00 pm.