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: [email protected] • Web: www.stmichael-delaware- oca.org

Vespers & Confessions: Saturday, 6:00 pm Hours, Divine Liturgy & Fellowship: Sunday, 8:40 am Sunday, June 30, 2013 1st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 8. The Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James, the son of Alphæus, Jude, the brother of James, Simon the Zealot, and Matthias. All Saints. St. Peter, Prince of Ordinsk. St. Sophróny, Bishop of Irkutsk (1918). Inaugural Wilmington/Dover Area Pan-Orthodox Divine Liturgy and Picnic. Reader’s Schedule DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE June-30 SOUDER, C WEREMEDIC PanOrthodox July 7 RILEY, A RILEY, J WEREMEDIC July 14 SOUDER, C WALES WALES July 21 WEREMEDIC SOUDER, C CARPENTER Fellowship Service Church Library Date Coffee Hour Duty Cleaners 30-Jun Pan Orth Souder Manna Pan Orth Liturgy Poletaev Mihret Liturgy Bunitsky 7-Jul Souder Riley Finck Nichols Kendall Hojnicki Flynn Morjana 14-Jul Whalen Farrell Roberts Harb 21-Jul Kraiter Cretu Elia Baldytchev Fox Gregors

Hebrews 11:33-12:2 (Epistle) 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. Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38, 19:27-30 (Gospel) Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first. Vacation Bible School A joint Vacation Bible School (VBS) will be held at Ss. Peter and Paul, Wilmington, DE on July 15-19 starting at 10:00 am and ending at 2:00 pm. A meeting of leaders will be scheduled following our Pan- Orthodox Divine Liturgy/Picnic. Plans are for pre- school through 12th grade and volunteers are needed. Prayers for the Departed: Father Gerasimos (Jerry) Rassias, Nabih Harb. Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Mat. Lisa Weremedic, Mark, Georgia Harb, Shawn McGee, Alice and William Dryden, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Joseph Wojciechowski, Helen Bunitsky, Caroline Humphrey. Prayers for Women and the Children to be Born of Them: Catalina Finck, Ruth Kendall, Amanda Weremedic. Prayers for Celebration: The Newly illumined Stephanie, Andrew, Hunter and Morgan George. Riley Mason Chalfant born on Monday, June 24, 2013 and his parents Melissa and Matthew Chalfant. Our Bible Study Group continues to meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 10:00-12:00 AM. We continue to use Barbara Pappas's book First and Second Corinthians for direction. No Bible study on Thursday, July 4th, due to the holiday. Fr. James and his family will be on vacation Monday, July 8, 2013 to Monday, July 15, 2013. Please contact Fr. Stephen Hutnick, Rector of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Wilmington (302-798-4455), should a ’clergy emergency’ arise. We will hold a reader’s Vesper service on Saturday (7/13) evening at 6 pm and Fr. Gregory Winsky will be serving the Divine Liturgy on Sunday (7/14). Fr. James will return for the joint vacation Bible School starting on July 15th at 10 am.