St. Archangel Michael Orthodox Church

St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church

Rev. Fr. Dean Franck, Priest (218) 969-5511 Email: Email: [email protected] Ms. Gina McGuire, Choir Director 701 East 40th Street Hibbing, MN 55746 (218) 263-5473

Church Website: http://www.saintarchangelmichael.org (Also find us on Facebook)

Schedule of Services and Activities:

 Today: Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna .  Wednesday: 6:30PM Choir Practice in church hall  Thursday: 3:45PM - 5:00PM serving Salvation Army soup kitchen downtown Hibbing  Friday: 9AM Liturgy (Exaltation of the Precious Cross)  Saturday: Vespers 5:00PM  Sunday: 10AM Liturgy  Please remember to check the “Caring Board” in the hall and also to post notices for those who are in need of prayer or visitation.

Upcoming events:  Tuesday, October 1: 6PM Family Night/Adult Education with Fr. Barnabas Powell  Saturday, November 16: ALL DAY retreat w/ Paul Karos of matronaministries.org the talk will be entitled "The Struggle of the Passions and Virtues in daily life."

Join us for coffee hour in the fellowship hall! Make yourself friendly to any new visitors!

Confessions: Confessions can be done anytime, during some services, before or after services, or by appointment, feel free to ask even if I’m in the altar. While Holy Communion is reserved for Orthodox Christians who prepare themselves by prayer, fasting, and recent confession; non-Orthodox visitors are welcome to come forward to venerate the cross and receive the antidoron (blessed bread) at the conclusion of the service. 14th Sunday After Pentecost 22 September 2019 Troparion of the Sunday, Tone IV — Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, / Co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, / born for our salvation from the Virgin, / for He willed to be lifted up on the cross in the flesh, / to endure death / and to raise the dead by His glorious resurrection. Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone IV — Thou didst descend into hell, O my Savior, / shattering its gates as almighty; / resurrecting the dead as Creator, / and destroying the sting of death. / Thou hast delivered Adam from the curse, O Lover of Man, / and we all cry to Thee: "O Lord, save us!" Saints Joachim and Anna, Troparion in Tone I — Joachim and Anna, who were righteous in the law of grace,/ have for us given birth unto a God-given babe./ Wherefore, the divine Church keepeth splendid festival today,/ celebrating their honoured memory with gladness,/ glorifying God Who hath lifted up the horn of salvation for us// in the house of David. Kontakion of Saints Joachim and Anna in Tone II "Seeking the highest" — Anna now rejoiceth,/ having broken the bond of barrenness;/ and she nurtureth the all-pure one,/ calling upon all to hymn the One Who through her womb// hath given unto men the only Mother who knew not man.

Epistle 2 CORINTHIAN 1:21-2:4

21Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. 23Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. 24Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand. 1But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. 2For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? 3And I 14th Sunday After Pentecost 22 September 2019 wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you. Gospel Matthew 22:1-14

1 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2 "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' 5 But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' 10 And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; 12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' 14 For many are called, but few are chosen."

Righteous Saint Joakim Commemorated on September 9 Righteous Saint Joakim, son of Barpathir, was a descendant of King David, to whom God had revealed that from the descendants of his line would be born the Saviour of the world. Righteous Saint Anna was the daughter of Matthan and through her father she was of the tribe of Levi, and through her mother – of the tribe of Judah. The spouses lived at 14th Sunday After Pentecost 22 September 2019 Nazareth in Galilee. They were childless into their old age and all their life they grieved over this. They had to endure derision and scorn, since at that time childlessness was considered a disgrace. But they never grumbled and only but fervently prayed to God, humbly trusting on His will. Once during the time of a great feast, the gifts which Righteous Joakim took to Jerusalem for offering to God were not accepted by the priest Ruben, who considered that a childless man was not worthy to offer sacrifice to God. This pained the old man very much, and he, regarding himself the most sinful of people, decided not to return home, but to settle in solitude in a desolate place. His righteous spouse Anna, having learned, what sort of humiliation her husband had endured, in prayer and fasting began sorrowfully to pray to God for granting her a child. In his desolate solitude and with fasting Righteous Joakim also besought God for this. And the prayer of the saintly couple was heard: to both of them an Angel announced, that there would be born of them a Daughter, Who would bless all the race of mankind. By order of this Heavenly Messenger, Righteous Joakim and Anna met at Jerusalem, where through the promise of God was born to them the Daughter, named Mary. Saint Joakim died a few years later after the Entry into the Temple of his Blessed Daughter, at about age 80. Saint Anna died at age 70, two years after him, spending the time in the Temple alongside her Daughter.