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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, June 8, 2014

8th SUNDAY OF PASCHA Tone 7.

HOLY PENTECOST: FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY. Translation of the Relics of the Greatmartyr Theodore Stratelates.

St. Theodore, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal. Finding of the Relics of Ss. Basil and Constantine, Princes of Yaroslavl. St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch. Ven. Zosimas of Phœnicia. Glorification of St. John of Kronstadt

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Jun-8 CARPENTER BUNITSKY, K. PECK

Jun-15 RILEY, J RILEY, A WALES

Jun-22 WEREMEDIC, J. BUNITSKY, K. BUNITSKY, S.

Jun-29 SOUDER, C WEREMEDIC, L. CAREY

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
8-Jun / Bacuta, Mihret / Sulpizi, Finck / Finck / Farrell
15-Jun / Elia, Gunderson
Farrell / Souder, Poletaev / Whalen / Gregors
22-Jun / Souder, Riley / Bunitsky, Kendall / Shatley, Baldytchev / Dozier
29-Jun / Hojnicki, Flynn
Roberts / Elia, Morjana / Kutch, Sulpizi / Gundersen

Vespers of Pentecost will follow the Divine Liturgy today.Acts 2:1-11 (Epistle)

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

FAMILY PROMISE IS BACK! - Family Promise is an outreach ministry that provides shelter, food, and fellowship to homeless families. St. Philip's Lutheran Church will be hosting families the week of July 20th-27th. If you can spend a couple of hours setting up, cooking, cleaning, chatting, playing, or a few hours sleeping, you can help provide shelter for those in need! We are seeking volunteers from St. Michael's to help host these families at St. Philip's. Please see the signup poster located in the Vestibule of the Church. If you have any questions, contact Ellen Gundersen. We hope to see you there!


John 7:37-52, 8:12 (Gospel)

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because of Him.

Now some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him. Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?” The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed. Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing? They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

On Sunday, June 8th, on Ancient Faith Today, host Kevin Allen and his guests Fr. Matthew Baker (GOA) and Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun (Moscow Patriarchate) will discuss the recent meetings and joint statements in Jerusalem between Pope Francis I and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and their potential impact on Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox relations, and the possibility of rapprochement between these ancient, historic churches, split since the 11th century. Listen live on Sunday, June 8 at 8:00 pm.
Prayers for the Departed: George Tamba, Peggy Reynolds.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Mat. Lisa, Michael Potter, William Dryden, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Marie Karawulan, Joseph Wojciechowski, Pete Weremedic, Barbara Hicks.

Prayers for Celebration:

Peter and Elizabeth Melnik celebrating their 58th Wedding Anniversary on Tuesday.

Reader James Weremedic celebrating his 6th Anniversary of his Tonsuring today.

The Parish Council will hold our monthly meeting in the Conference Room on Tuesday, June 10th at 6:30 pm.

Our Family Promise week is the week of July 20th through July 26th. Please keep this week in your plans during the summer. We anticipate having our days Monday, Tuesday and Thursday unless something unforeseen occurs. Also, our fall week is October 5th through the 11th. Thank you for your participation!

Attention 2014 Graduates!

Please submit your photo and biography to the Communications department for the upcoming "Alive in Christ" graduate edition. Please email a HIGH RESOLUTION JPG file. Please do not put the image into a MS Word document, this results in poorer quality. Please provide the following information:

Graduate's Name Graduate's Parish

Graduate's Parents' names Where you graduated from

Future plans

Contact person

You can email to:

OR

You can mail them the traditional way for scanning to: Aric Gingo, 160 Shadetree Road, Shavertown, PA 18708 Please note: The Deadline is JUNE 30, 2014.

Please be prompt as we have had very strong response the previous 2 years and we don't want to leave you out!

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.