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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: frjamesw@ • Web: stmichael-delaware-

Vespers & Confessions: Saturday, 5:00 pm

Hours, Divine Liturgy & Fellowship: Sunday, 8:40 am

Sunday, December 30, 2012

30th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 5. Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ. Sunday after Nativity. Holy Righteous Ones: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord. Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Dec 30 CARPENTER WEREMEDIC CAREY

|Date |Fellowship |Service |Church Cleaners |Library |

| |Coffee Hour |Duty | | |

|30-Dec |Open House |Riley |Manna |Dozier |

| |at the Rectory |Baldytchev |Mihret | |

|6-Jan |Kraiter |Sulpiz |Whalen |Gundersen |

| |Cretu |Kendall | | |

|13-Jan |Gerassimakis |Souder |Baldytchev |Nichols |

| |Bunitsky |Poletaev |Fox | |

|20-Jan |Morjana, Whalen |Bunitsky |Shatley |Farrell |

| |Bisrat |need help | | |

|27-Jan |Shatley, Hines LaChance |Morjana |Kutch |Gregors |

| | |Harb |Sulpizi | |

Mat. Lisa and Fr. James would like to invite everyone to attend an “open house” at the Rectory TODAY, December 30, 2012 immediately following the Divine Liturgy. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.

|Teen Winter Retreat 2013 |

|Come Join the Fun! Join us the weekend of February 8-10, 2013, for the annual Winter Teen Retreat of |

|the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania. Hang out with old friends, meet new ones, and create memories |

|while learning about the lives of the twelve apostles with Fr. Stephen Vernak. Registration forms are|

|available at . A flyer for this event can be found in the Vestibule. For more |

|information call: 570-493-0108, or E-mail: retreat@ Visit: |

The 2013 Parish Council ‘swearing in’ will occur on Sunday, January 13, 2013. Please prepare through Confession and Communion for your start of service to our Lord in this capacity.

Services for the Feast of Holy Theophany:

• Compline & Matins for Holy Theophany on Saturday, January 5th, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

• Divine Liturgy on Sunday, January 6th, 2012, at 9:00 a.m., with the Blessing of Holy Water, afterwards. Bring your own bottles for refill, please!

The sign-up sheet for House Blessings is in the narthex. Please indicate your preference for morning, afternoon or evening appointment. In addition, please indicate the days you will not be available. Father will schedule based on the information provided and will confirm a date/time with you. In addition, please provide a phone number to confirm appointments.

Prayers for the Departed: Mary Varner

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Fr. Stephen Siniairi, Alice and William Dryden, Anna and Luke Wales, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, Stephanie, Andrew, Tory Bucks, Peggy Reynolds and Deborah Welker.

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

Analyn Peck, Julia Whalen, Elizabeth Clause.

Prayers for Celebration:

Immediately following Divine Liturgy will be a 3-year Panikhedia for Mary Varner, offered by her daughter, Juliana Bunitsky.

Epiphany Retreat

Holy Trinity, Ss. Peter and Paul and St. Michael the Archangel churches will not hold the Ephiphany Retreat as previously announced. We are planning to hold a Lenten Youth Retreat on March 2, 2013. More information to follow. Volunteers are needed: please see Fr. James.

Metropolitan Tikhon to be enthroned January 27, 2013

The Enthronement of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America will be celebrated at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Washington, DC, on the weekend of January 26-27, 2012. On Saturday, January 26, the Vigil will be celebrated at 5:00 p.m. On Sunday, January 27, the Divine Liturgy, followed by the Rite of Enthronement, will begin at 9:00 a.m. A banquet will be held at the Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.), Washington, DC. A reception will held at 2:00 p.m., followed by dinner in the Regency Ballroom at 3:00 p.m.

Matthew 2:13-23 (Gospel, Sunday After the Nativity)

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”

When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had.

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.”

Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”

Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there.

And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

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