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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, October 27, 2013

18th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 1. Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica. Ven. Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves. St. Andrew, Prince of Smolensk. Martyrs Capitolina and Erotheis of Cappadocia. Martyr Mark and those with him, on the Isle of Thasos. St. Dumitru the New, Metropolitan of Bucharest.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Oct 27 CARPENTER SOUDER PECK

Nov 3 A. RILEY J. RILEY J.RILEY

Nov 10 WEREMEDIC SENSOR CARPENTER

Nov 17 CARPENTER SOUDER, C WEREMEDIC

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
27-Oct / Gerassimakis Bunitsky / Sulpizi Kendall / Peck Dozier / Farrell
3-Nov / Morjana Whalen Bisrat / Souder Poletaev / Manna Mihret / Gregors
10-Nov / Shatley LaChance Hines / Bunitsky Kendall / Finck / Dozier
17-Nov / Carey Poletaev / Morjana / Whalen / Gundersen

Our Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Sunday, November 3, 2013 during the fellowship hour. Please pick-up and read the agenda, minutes and reports.


Luke 8:26-39 (Gospel)

Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!”

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.

Jesus asked him, saying, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him. And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss.

Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. So they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.

When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned. Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him.

But Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.


Patronal Feast Day of our Parish.

Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers:

Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel.

Thursday, Nov. 7: Vespers with Litya at 7:00 pm.

Friday, Nov. 8: Divine Liturgy at 9:00 am.

The Nativity Fast begins on November 15, 2015.

Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple

Wednesday, Nov. 20: Vespers with Litya at 7:00 pm.

Thursday, Nov. 21: Divine Liturgy at 9:00 am.

ST. MICHAEL’S FALL BAZAAR

Saturday, November 2, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Eat-in or take out

Come and enjoy a variety of different ethnic foods such as Halupki, Halushki, Kielbasa & Sauerkraut, Cheese Blini, Piroshki. For additional information, please call Olga Maloney at 302-737-4579. For Vendor information, please call Hope LaChance at 302-561-1870.

We’ll also be selling baked goods. Please consider baking one of your favorite cookies, cakes, pies, or breads. You may also make homemade candy. Have your item (s) wrapped and ready for us to price. A sign-up sheet is located on the counter in the vestibule.

Contact Alice Morjana (302)266-6748 or Cathy Souder (610) 543-0887 for more information.

Would you help us at the Bazaar? We need volunteers. A sign-up sheet is located in the vestibule. Contact Alice Morjana for more information.

September 2013 Financials

Y-T-D Income from Operations / $ 125,353.69
Y-T-D Expenses for Operations / $ (127,369.91)
Year To Date Income/(loss) / $ (2,016.22)

Prayers for the Departed: Gregory Sulich

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Mat. Elizabeth Bacon, Mark, Alice and William Dryden, Agnes Timchak, Wendy Boyer, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Joseph Wojciechowski, Taylor.

Prayers for Women and the Children to be Born of Them: Catalina Finck.

Prayers for Celebration: The Newly Illumined Charlotte Lynn Kendall, her sponsors Rashid and Mona Elia and her parents Jeff and Ruth Kendall. May God Grant Them Many Blessed Years!

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.

October 27: Perspectives on the Church Fathers

In this two-hour edition, host Kevin Allen speaks with two early Church scholars—Reformed Christian James R. Payton, Jr. (editor of the newly published A Patristic Treasury: Early Church Wisdom for Today) and Orthodox Christian Bradley Nassif (a leading expert on the relationship between Orthodox and Evangelical Christians)—about the Church Fathers, including who they are, what they taught, and their significance in the Evangelical and Orthodox church traditions.