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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, March 20, 2011
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT -Tone 2. St. Gregory Palamas. The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St. Sabbas. Monk Martyr Euphrosynus of Sinozérsk. Martyr Photina, the Samaritan woman, and her sons: Martyrs Victor and Joses, and two others. Virgin Martyrs Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia and Theodosia, of Amisus. St. Nicetas the Confessor, Archbishop of Apollonias in Bithynia.
DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE
Mar-20 WEREMEDIC SENSOR PECK
Mar-25 ANNUNCIATION
Mar-27 SOUDER, C SOUDER, E WALES
Date / Fellowship Hour / Service Duty / Church Cleaners / Greeters / Library20 March / Gerassimakis
Peck / Gerassimakis / Manna Mihret / V Chalfant
B Peck / Closed
27 March / Morjana Kusumi Whalen / Morjana Harb / Whalen / Poletaevs
An organizational meeting today, Sunday, March 20 @ 10:45 am (right after the Liturgy) in the church. I hope that you are able to make it so that we can discuss some details of the festival, whatis needed, and brainstorm ideas that will make this a successful fund-raising event for our parish.
Pierogies will be made on Tuesday, March 22 at 9:00 am in the Church Hall. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Thank you to the entire St. Michael's family for the outpouring of love and support you gave us during Nino's pregnancy and her baby shower, as well as Ketevan's birth and baptism. May God grant all of you many years! Michael and Nino Sensor.
Please join us for the next youth group activityon March 27th at12:00 pm (noon) at the "Pleasant Hill Lanes" at 1001 W. Newport Pkin Newport. 5 bowlers to a lane - $8/per person includes shoes and 2 hours of bowling. Kids/adults, all same price. Please RSVP to Juliana or Silvana TODAYso we know how many lanes to reserve.Parents need to transport their own children and they must stay during bowling.
A Bible Study group continues to meet and is open to all interested. The next meeting will be held at Rania Dababneh's house on Thursday, March 24th at 10:00 am.The address is 169 Manor Circle, Elkton, MD. begin_of_the_skype_highlighting Please RSVP to Rania at 443-566-0368.Please join us for a brown bag lunch.
LENTEN COMMUNITY FOOD DRIVE:
March 6– April 17, 2011
We will collect non-perishable food for the needy in our area. We hope to donate 20 boxes of food. We’d also like to put one Pascha bread (koolich) in each box. Anyone willing to bake bread, please see Colleen Shatley or Suzy Dozier. Cash donations are welcome. Checks to St. Michaels should be earmarked: “ Food Drive”.
Hall cleaning
At a recent Parish Council meeting, it was decided we should have a separate group of people who would clean the hall on a rotating monthly basis. The responsibility would involve dusting the floor, wet mopping any spills, and wet wiping all the tables. We are hoping that these volunteers will be different than those who already clean the church. Please sign up on the list in the vestibule.
Assessments
We are coming to the end of the first quarter of the year and want to remind everyone of their obligation to pay the Diocesan and National Church Assessments which total $153 per individual for the year. Many have found it helpful to pay with quarterly envelopes that are available in the vestibule. Thank you for your cooperation and please see Vera Chalfant for any questions.
Prayers for the Departed: Newly Departed Mat. Olga Kovach, Rachael Chupeck and Eleanor.
Prayers for the Sick and Needy: James & Olga Riley, William Dryden, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, Stephen Kutch, John Elliott, Betty Jean Harb, Nabih & Georgia Harb, Marie Holowatch, Daniel Ruduski, Theophan Shatley, Natalia Romaniouga, Edward Burke, Sofia Golbiw, Marian, Ioana Cretu, Vera Chalfant, Alexandra, Joseph Wojciechowski, Mat. Lisa, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter. Daniel Habtegorges dwelling in Libya.
Lenten Services 2011As most of the Lenten Services are penitential in nature, please refrain from talking as we leave.
Lenten Mission Services will be held on Sunday (3/20) at 4 PM.
St. Thomas, Cherry Hill, NJ or St. Nicholas, Coatesville, PA
Presanctified Liturgy, will be on Wednesday (3/23), at 6:00 pm.
Remember to fast in strict abstinence from your noon meal as preparation for Holy Communion.
Vesperal Liturgy: The Annunication of the Holy Theotokos will be held on Friday (3/25), at 6:00 pm.
March 27: 4 PM St. John Chrysostom, Philadelphia
April 3: 4 PM Sts. Peter & Paul, Wilmington, DE
April 10: 4 PM St. Nicholas (OCA-Fr. Bohush-7th Street), Philadelphia
April 17: 5 PM St. Nicholas Serbian, Elkins Park, PA with their Bishop
Please start saving your attic treasure’s for the Saint Michael’s flea market that will be held on Saturday, May 21, during the International Food and Music Festival. Ethic foods will be prepared representing the Russian, Arabic, Eritrean, Romanian, Bulgarian, German, and American cultures. There will also be music, a bake sale, plant sale, vendors, and children’s activities. We are looking for a coordinator of the flea market and a coordinator for the food sales and we will also need the help of all parishioner’s to make this fund-raising event a success. The event will be held from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Please see festival coordinators Olga Maloney or Susan Skomorucha with your interest.
Hebrews 1:10-2:3 (Epistle)
And: "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not fail."
But to which of the angels has He ever said: "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
Mark 2:1-12 (Gospel)
And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.
Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone? But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise, take up your bed and walk'?
But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins-He said to the paralytic, I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house. Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"