Posts by Fr. Nick Aiello

One more coat of varnish to apply on Monday…receiving ‘occupancy’ from the city tomorrow. Then blessing the temple and serving the vigil this Saturday (10/10)  4:00 – 6:00 PM, and the divine liturgy the next day: Sunday 10/11 at our usual time of 9:30 AM (Hours 9:10). For those of you who are local that…

Reflection before Nativity

August’s calendar is now posted – as are last Sunday’s sermon as well as the sermon on the Feast of St’s Peter and Paul. And in the next few days I hope to post pictures of our recent pilgrimage to St’s Anthony and Paisius monasteries.

St. Basil Mission will be making it’s first pilgrimage to the Arizona monasteries of St’s Paisius and Anthony’s in two weeks. We hope this will be a semi-annual pilgrimage, returning again in late summer. Please contact Fr. Nicklas if you would like further information.  

See this month’s calendar  December 2013 Mission Calendar for the times of services for our Nativity celebration and Patronal feast on New Years Eve and New Years day. There is maybe no other time of year when the counter-culture of the Historic Church is so visibly on display as at Nativity/Christmas – and especially in our…

Please note our Thanksgiving day Divine Liturgy. Unique to American Orthodoxy is this service approved by St. Tikhon in 1901 when he was the Bishop of North America. This Divine Liturgy has been celebrated here for the last 112 years by Orthodox Americans. Here is St. Tikhon’s dedication: “This translation of the Thanksgiving service of…