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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, March 9, 2014

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 4. The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. Sunday of Orthodoxy. Martyr Urpasianus, of Nicomedia. St. Cæsarius, brother of St. Gregory the Theologian. Righteous Tarasius.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

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

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

Mar-23 CARPENTER SOUDER, C. WEREMEDIC, J.

Mar-30 SOUDER, C WEREMEDIC, L. WALES

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church
Cleaners / Library
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
30-Mar / Souder, Riley / Sulpizi, Finck / Riley / Farrell

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

With the time change this weekend (Spring Forward), our Saturday Vespers will be at 6:00 pm starting on March 15th.

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.

Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-12:2 (Epistle)

By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented – of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

John 1:43-51 (Gospel)

The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

Ancient Faith Today with Kevin Allen will host Fr. Brendan Pelphrey (GOA) and R. Todd Godwin for a discussion of “Orthodox Christianity and Buddhism” this Sunday, March 9, at 8 pm Eastern

Buddhists in the US are double the number of Orthodox Christians, and most American Buddhists are Western, not raised in Buddhist traditions. Kevin and his guests Fr. Brendan Pelphrey (GOA), an ex-missionary in Asia who has had dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and R. Todd Godwin, ex-Buddhist and Orthodox Christian, will discuss the attractions of Buddhism, as well as its key teachings and practices, in comparison with and in contrast to those of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Listen live on Sunday, March 9 at 5:00 pm Pacific/6:00 pm Mountain/7:00 pm Central/8:00 pm Eastern.


Prayers for the Departed: Alice Dryden, Joseph Fakhir.

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

Prayers for Celebration: Hanna and Stephen Conover celebrating their birthdays this week.

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

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

Presanctified Liturgy, will be held on Wednesday (3/12), at 6:00 pm. Remember to fast in strict abstinence from your noon meal as preparation for Holy Communion.

Akathist to our Lord and Savior, JesusChrist, will be on Friday (3/29) at 6:30pm. Confessions will be heard following the Akathist.

The Mission Vespers on March 16th will be held at St. Herman of Alaska, Gradyville, PA at 4:00 pm.

As most of the Lenten Services are penitential in nature, please refrain from talking as we leave.

"Prayer and Intimacy with Christ"

We are holding a Lenten Retreat on Saturday April 5th, noon to 6:30 pm with guest speaker, Dr. Albert S. Rossi presenting. Dr. Rossi is the Director of Field Education and Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology. He has been a quiet, steady presence at St. Vladimir's Seminary for twenty years. Yet much of his work has also been done in venues around the country where he leads parish and youth retreats.

http://www.svots.edu/voices/faculty

Our Joint Presanctified Liturgies:

St. Michael will host on March 26th

Ss. Peter and Paul will host on April 9th