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.

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!



Classes

Fall 2023 Adult Christian Education

The adult Christian education series for fall of 2023 will be held on Wednesday evenings starting on September 20th. These classes will be for parish members, catechumens and inquirers.  Please speak with Fr. Mark or Dn. Innocent if you would like more information or would like to join the classes. 

Youth Sunday School

The children of the parish are dismissed following Communion for Sunday school lessons.  As our parish pulls from a large geographic area, and not everyone is able to travel to Liturgy every Sunday, the lessons are designed so children can attend when they are present.  If your child has a paint shirt please bring it along, some of our activities are hands-on crafts.

Upcoming Services (all services are listed in Central Time)

27

Sep

Wednesday

5:30pm Christian Education Class 

30

Sep

Saturday

5:30pm Great Vespers

1

Oct

Sunday

Protection of the Theotokos
9:00am Orthros
10:00am Divine Liturgy

4

Oct

Wednesday

5:30pm Christian Education Class

7

Oct

Saturday

5:30pm Great Vespers

8

Oct

Sunday

9:00am Orthros
10:00am Divine Liturgy
4:30pm Ironwood Liturgy

11

Oct

Wednesday

5:30pm Christian Education Class

14

Oct

Saturday

Parish Retreat 1:00-4:30pm
5:30pm Great Vespers

15

Oct

Sunday

9:00am Orthros
10:00am Divine Liturgy


Today's Scripture Readings from the Antiochian Archdiocese
ST. PAUL'S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS 3:8-21
Brethren, to me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him. So l ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with the fulness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
LUKE 5:33-39
At that time, the Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?" And Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." He told them a parable also: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, 'The old is better.'
Today's Commemorations in the Antiochian Archdiocese
Callistratus the Martyr & his 49 Companions, Mark, Aristarchos, and Zenon, Apostles of the 70, Akylina the New Martyr of Thessaloniki, Gideon the Righteous

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Do you have a heart of steel? But there is no place for steel in paradise. Paradise has need of humility and the love of Christ, which pities all men. The grace of God is not in the man who does not love his enemies. – St. Silouan the Athonite


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