Welcome to St. Mary's Orthodox Church!

Welcome to St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Iron Mountain!

St. Mary's is a parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, serving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern Wisconsin. As a member of the Antiochian Archdiocese we follow the liturgical practice and canonical discipline of our Archdiocese and Patriarchate. All our services are in English.

We are located at 311 West D Street in Iron Mountain, MI; on the corner of West D Street and Stockbridge Ave. 

Visitors & inquirers are always welcome at St. Mary's! Please visit our Inquirers Page and our Contact & Visitors Page

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Thank you for visiting and have a blessed day!



Great & Holy Pascha 2025

Announcements

* CONFESSIONS: Time for confession is available by appointment.  No confessions will be heard following midweek or Sunday Liturgy's.  Please contact Fr. Mark in advance to schedule confession time.

* LIBRARY: Quite a few of the church's lending library books are currently out in homes.  If you are finished reading the book(s) you have borrowed please return them to the church.  There is a waiting list for several of the titles.  If you loved the book you borrowed and would like to purchase a personal copy please speak to Michelle for assistance in ordering.  Thank you!


Upcoming Services (all services are listed in Central Time)

18

Apr

Friday

Good and Holy Friday
9:00am Royal Hours
2:00pm Great Vespers
5:30pm Lamentations

19

Apr

Saturday

Holy Saturday
10:00am Vesperal Divine Liturgy


 10:00pm Holy Pascha Services-celebratory meal following services

20

Apr

Sunday

PASCHA
11:00am Ironwood Pascha Services-celebratory meal following service

No Services in Iron Mtn.

23

Apr

Wednesday

St. George the Trophy Bearer
4:30pm Orthros
5:30pm Divine Liturgy

26

Apr

Saturday

Apostle Mark
10:00am Ironwood Liturgy 
5:30pm Great Vespers
6:30pm Antiochian Men's Group

27

Apr

Sunday

Thomas Sunday
9:00am Orthros
10:00am Divine Liturgy

3

May

Saturday

 
5:30pm Readers Vespers

4

May

Sunday

Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
9:00am Readers Orthros
10:00am Typica with Communion

9

May

Friday

 


Today's Scripture Readings
ST. PAUL'S FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 5:6-8
BRETHREN, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (Galatians 3.13-14) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree" - that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
MATTHEW 27:62-66
On the next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, "Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise again.' Therefore order the sepulcher to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead, ' and the last fraud will be worse than the first." Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can." So they went and made the sepulcher secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
Today's Commemorations
Holy Friday, Holy Father John the Righteous, disciple of St. Gregory of Decapolis, Euthemios the Enlightener of Karelia, Cosmas, Bishop of Calcydon, John the New Martyr of Epiros, Athanasia the Wonderworker of Aegina

Today's Thought

If we are incapable of doing anything, let us at least realize who we are and where we stand, and at the final hour turn to Christ with the cry, the appeal of the thief, "Remember me, Lord, in Thy Kingdom." - Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

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Great and Holy Friday
Great and Holy Friday

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Venerable John, disciple of Venerable Gregory of Decapolis
Venerable John, disciple of Venerable Gregory of Decapolis

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Martyr Victor, and his companions, of Nicomedia
Martyr Victor, and his companions, of Nicomedia

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Saint Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his fellow ascetic, Saint Auxentius
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New Martyr John the New of Epirus
New Martyr John the New of Epirus

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Venerable Euthymius, Enlightener of Karelia, Finland and the Righteous Anthony and Felix
Venerable Euthymius, Enlightener of Karelia, Finland and the Righteous Anthony and Felix

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“Maximov” Icon of the Mother of God
“Maximov” Icon of the Mother of God

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Saint Basil Ratishvili of Georgia
Saint Basil Ratishvili of Georgia

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