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

Please use the contact form to request more information, ask any questions, or join our mailing list. 

Thank you for visiting and have a blessed day!

Announcements

Fr. Jeremy Davis Visit: Fr. Jeremy Davis, Diocese of Toledo & the Midwest Archiepiscopal Vicar, will be visiting St. Mary's July 10th-14th.  Along with services on Friday, Saturday & Sunday;Fr. Jeremy will be speaking at a retreat for the parish on Saturday afternoon.  The retreat topic is Sacrifice as a Welcoming Gift.  Service schedule can be found on the church calendar. Please plan to join us for services, meals & the retreat to welcome Fr. Jeremy to Iron Mountain & the UP. 

Confessions: Please contact Fr. Mark in advance to schedule confession time. No confessions will be heard following midweek or Sunday Liturgy's.  

Lending Library: Quite a few of the church's lending library books have been out in homes for an extended period of time.  Please check your bookshelves to see if a church book got mixed in with your personal library. 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)

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Jul

Saturday

5:30pm Great Vespers

20

Jul

Sunday

Prophet Elijah
9:00am Orthros
10:00am Divine Liturgy

21

Jul

Monday

Archdiocese Convention-Chicago

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Jul

Tuesday

Archdiocese Convention-Chicago

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Jul

Wednesday

Archdiocese Convention-Chicago

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Jul

Thursday

Archdiocese Convention-Chicago

Today's Scripture Readings
ST. PAUL'S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS 3:23-29; 4:1-5
Brethren, before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate; but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
MARK 5:24-34
At that time, a great crowd followed Jesus and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well." And immediately the hemorrhage ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'" And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had been done to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."
Today's Commemorations
The Holy Great Martyr Marina (Margaret), Veronika & Speratos the Martyrs, Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia, Kenelm, Prince of Mercia
Today's Thought

The Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412 A.D.) once visited the monks in the Nitrian Desert (El Wadi Natroun). The monks begged Abba Pambo, saying: “Give the patriarch an edifying word, which would be of benefit to him.” The quiet Pambo replied: “If he does not benefit by my silence, he will not benefit by my word.”

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"Sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church is the first Christian Church, the Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and described in the pages of the New Testament.  Her history can be traced in unbroken continuity all the way back to Christ and His Twelve Apostles.  For twenty centuries, she has continued in her undiminished and unaltered faith and practice.  Today her apostolic doctrine, worship, and structure remain intact.  The Orthodox Church maintains that the Church is the living Body of Jesus Christ."      

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Great Martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch
Great Martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch

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Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovki

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Translation of the relics of Venerable Lazarus of Mount Galesius near Ephesus

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Royal Passionbearers Tsar Nicholas (Nikolai), Tsaritsa Alexandra, Tsarevich Aleksy, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia
Royal Passionbearers Tsar Nicholas (Nikolai), Tsaritsa Alexandra, Tsarevich Aleksy, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia

Saint Nicholas, the last Russian Tsar, was born in 1868. As a child, he was very religious, guileless and free from malice. Nicholas II was crowned as Tsar in 1894, following the death of his father Tsar Alexander. He began his reign with lofty hopes for peace, urging other nations to reduce the…

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Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsk
Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsk

Saint Leonid of Ustnedumsk lived in the Poshekhonsk district of Vologda, and he was a farmer by occupation. At age fifty, he saw the Mother of God in a dream, Who directed him to go to the River Dvina to the Morzhevsk Nikolaev hermitage. He was to take from there the Hodēgḗtria Icon of the…

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Icon of the Mother of God of Sviatogorsk

The Sviatogorsk Icon of the Mother of God is from the Sviatogorsky Monastery in the province of Pskov. In the year 1563, during the time of Ivan the Terrible, in the environs of Pskov a “Tenderness” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to a fifteen-year-old shepherd and fool named…

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