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

Vespers & Confessions: Saturday, 5:00 pm Hours, Divine Liturgy & Fellowship: Sunday, 8:40 am Sunday, July 22, 2012 7th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 6. Holy Myrrhbearer and Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene. Translation of the Relics of Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope. Repose of Ven. Cornelius of Pereyaslavl’. Martyr Marcella of Chios. Reader’s Schedule DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE July 22 CARPENTER SENSOR CAREY July 29 CARPENTER BRASOWSKI WEREMEDIC Aug 5 RILEY, J RILEY, A RILEY, J Aug 12 WEREMEDIC SENSOR SENSOR Fellowship Service Church Library Date Coffee Hour Duty Cleaners Shatley LaChance Bunitsky 22-Jul Whalen Daubert Hines Sulpizi Carey Bunitsky Souder Baldytchev 29-Jul Poletaev Poletaev Poletaev Fox 5-Aug Conover Daubert Gerassimakis Shatley Gundersen 12- Kutch Morjana Harb Kutch Skomorucha Aug 19- Bacuta Elia Riley Stoyanov Aug

We welcome our visitors and guests and invite you to join us for coffee hour in the church hall following the liturgy. Kukoleca/Veselinovic Wedding This is the third announcement of the upcoming wedding of Andrea Veselinovic and Daniel Kukoleca on Saturday, July 28, 2011 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at St. Michael's Orthodox Church. Please keep Andrea and Daniel in your prayers as they prepare to participate in this sacrament of the church. St. Michael the Archangel’s 100th Celebration! Plans for celebrating our 100th anniversary as a parish in 2015 are underway. For now, please keep Sunday, November 8, 2015 (Patronal Feast Day) open and start planning on how you can participate in making 2015 a great year!

We are starting to collect personal-needs items in a bin in the narthex for inmates at the Baylor Women's Correctional Institution in New Castle. Only plastic containers, please (no glass or aerosol cans). Items needed: Deodorant, Combs, Lotion, Brushes, Shampoo, Conditioner, Hair Dressing, Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Soap, also - Bibles! This will be an ongoing ministry, so collect those cute little hotel toiletries as you travel year-round!

Our Bible Study Group will not meet in August. The Bible Study will resume in September. If you are planning on attending, please give your name to Elizabeth Melnik so we can make the proper arrangements. Fr. James’ Vacation Fr. James will be on vacation July 30 through August 5. Please contact Fr. Stephen Hutnick, Rector of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainainian Orthodox Church in Wilmington (302-798-4455), should a’clergy emergency’ arise. We will hold a reader’s Vesper service on Saturday (8/4) evening at 5 pm and Fr. Gregory Winsky will be serving the Divine Liturgy on Sunday (8/5). Fr. James will return for Vespers with Litya (8/5) at 7 pm for the Feast of the Holy Transfiguration.

Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Sunday, August 5: Vespers with Litya at 7:00 pm Monday, August 6: Divine Liturgy with Blessing of Fruit at 7:00 am Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Misha Harrell, deployed to Afghanistan. Alice and William Dryden, Anna and Luke Wales, Agnes Timchak, Olga and James Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Onufry Zabinko, John Elliott, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, James Carpenter, Aaron Hojnicki, Stephanie, Andrew, Joyce Hassler, Donna Reda, Trisha, Urshula, Sara, Angela, Catherine, Caroline Humphrey, Sam Regen, Daniel Coyle, Darla Urban, Charles Simmons and Christian Souder. Prayers for celebration: The newly Illumined Daniel Kukoleca. Luke and Anna Wales celebrating their wedding anniversary. Caroline Humphrey celebrating her birthday. Prayers for Women and the Children to be Born of Them: Julia Whalen Heroes for Christ! St. Michael's Vacation Bible School 2012! Please join us at St. Michael's for three evenings of games, art, music, and, of course, FOOD as explore what it means to be a hero. This year's activities will be centered around questions such as (1) How is Christ the ultimate Hero? (2) How is Christ different from the "heroes" of the world? (3) Who have been heroes for Christ? and (4) How can we be heroes for Christ? VBS will be held August 6th - 8th from 6 pm - 8:30 pm at St. Michael's and anyone over the age of three is welcome to participate in the fun and is encouraged to invite friends, even if they are not Orthodox...yet! We are also in need of volunteers willing to help with activities and food. So if you, your children, or their friends are interested in spending a few fun evenings this summer at St. Michael's, there is now a sign- up sheet in the Narthex waiting for you! We do ask that a parent or guardian stick around while their children are at VBS to be in-line with safety policies. If you have any questions please contact Dan Sulpizi at 484-354- 4022 or by email at [email protected]. Romans 15:1-7 (Epistle) We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.” For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God Matthew 9:27-35 (Gospel) When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!” And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it.” But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country. As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel!” But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.” Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.