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
Church School follows Sunday’s Divine Liturgy.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
18th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council. Martyr Longinus the Centurion, who stood at the Cross of the Lord. Ven. Lóngin the Gatekeeper of the Kiev Caves. Ven. Lóngin of Yarensk.
Reader’s Schedule
DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE
Oct 16 SOUDER C WALES WALES
Oct 23 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI PECK
Oct 30 RILEY, A RILEY, J SENSOR
Nov 6 WEREMEDIC SENSOR SINOVICH
Nov 13 RILEY J SOUDER, C CAREY
Nov 20 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI BRASOWSKI
Date / Fellowship Hour / Service Duty / Church Cleaners / Key Schedule / Library16 Oct / Manna, Mihret Merhane / Gerassimakis. / Peck Dozier / Brasowski / Dozier
23 Oct / Gerassimakis Peck / Morjana Harb / Manna Mihret / Peck / Daubert
30 Oct / Lemlem Kiflemarian / Elia / Whalen / Whalen / Poletaev
6 Nov / OPEN
OPEN / Riley Baldytchev / Baldytchev / Carpenter / Gundersen
13 Nov / Gunderson Elia / Bunitsky / Kutch / Sensor / Skomorucha
Our Annual Meeting will not occur today, but is scheduled for November 13, 2011. If you are interested in serving on the Parish Council for the calendar year 2012, please submit your name to James Carpenter, Vice-president, and also speak to Fr. James to ensure you are in “Good Standing” both financially and spiritually.
Submit Committee, Volunteer Groups and Organizations’ Reports to Fr. James on or before October 23rd. Having the reports by this date allows adequate time to compile and print copies.
Submit items for the Agenda to Fr. James on or before October 23rd as well.
Agenda and Reports will be distributed on November 6th for everyone’s review prior to the Annual Meeting.
Fellowship Hour: The new Panera Bread in FAIRFAX Shopping Center (Concord Pike) is available for donation pick up Saturday nights at 8:45 pm. You must call 302.428.1796 to schedule your own pick up. See Mona for information.”
The bookstore will place orders for books, icons, CDs, DVDs, etc. from orthodox publishing firms at a 20-40% discount. See Ellen Gundersen for details.
We are updating the ‘Parish Directory’. Please verify the information is correct and, if not, make the necessary changes.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announced in Friday, October 14, 2011, that an agreement was reached with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey regarding the rebuilding of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Archbishop Demetrios expressed particular praise for Governor Cuomo and said, “… St. Nicholas Church, rising again with the help of God at Ground Zero - where it stood spiritually important for 85 years, is an affirmation of the significance of religious freedom and experience for all New Yorkers and all Americans. The covenant stands firm. We will again light many candles in the new St. Nicholas Church and remember those who were lost to us, and those heroes who so nobly sacrificed their lives. Our pledge is to be a witness for all New Yorkers, that freedom of conscience and the fundamental human right of free religious expression will always shine forth in the resurrected St. Nicholas Church.”
Prayers for the Departed:
The newly departed Sofia Golbiw and Taisia Drobish.
Prayers for the Sick and Needy:
Steven Hojnicki, deployed to Afghanistan.
Alexandra Whittington, Nina Shevchuk, Delores Helms, Agnes Timchak, Mat. Mary Bunitsky, Olga and James Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, John Elliott, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Natalia Romaniouga, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter, Aaron Hojnicki.
Anna Buehler and the child she bears.
Prayers for Celebration:
Lemlem Kiflemariam on passing her United States Citizen’s test. May God Grant Her Many Blessed Years!
A new church year has started and St. Michael's Parish Library would like to welcome you in for a visit. We have many books and tapes that will inspire and inform you.
The library staff is in the process of doing inventory and needs your help to bring our collection up to date. If you have library books or tapes that are over due, please return them so they can be counted. The library inventory will give us an accurate picture of our current collection and what items need to be replaced.
Please visit often and we welcome your suggestions for improving the library.
OFFICE HOURS
Fr. James ‘office hours’ at the Church are on Wednesdays 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Thursdays 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. During these hours, the church will be open for everyone to come and pray as well. Please note: our church building is available four out of seven days per week, even if only for a few hours those days. May we one day be blessed keep our doors open each day.
Patronal Feast Day of our Parish.
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers:
Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel and Barachiel.
Monday, Nov. 7: Vespers with Litya at 7:00 pm.
Tuesday, Nov. 8: Divine Liturgy 7:00 am.
2 Corinthians 9:6-11 (Epistle)
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
Luke 8:5-15 (Gospel)
A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it. Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold.
When He had said these things He cried, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Then His disciples asked Him, saying, "What does this parable mean?" And He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that 'Seeing they may not see, And hearing they may not understand.'
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.