December Calendar
December 2012 Calendar
Read MoreVisit From Our Portland Friends
Our family had the great blessing of welcoming and worshipping with our dear friends Matushka Connie Shank and Brigid Gerard last Sunday at the mission. As with the fist Divine Liturgy we celebrated, as well as the first one I celebrated as a new priest at the mission, there was the unmistakable feeling that we…
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July Calendar Posted
St Basil Mission Receives Boniface (Tanner) Tindell as its First Catechumen
We had the great joy of receiving our first catechumen into the mission last Sunday: Boniface (Tanner) Tindell. Boniface is the adult son of Mary (Leah) Tindell who last summer was the first one baptized at St. Basil’s. He has been searching…
Read MoreDn. Nicklas Ordained to the Holy Priesthood
On St. Thomas Sunday I had the humbling privilege of being ordained to the Holy Priesthood by His Beautitude Metropolitan Jonah in the Cathedral of St. Seraphim in Dallas, Texas. It was not only a special day for me personally but a special day for St. Basil Mission as its first priest. …
Read MoreMetropolitan Jonah Ordains St. Basil’s Nick Aiello to the Holy Diaconate
It was a double-blessing to be ordained to the holy diaconate on the Feast of the Annunciation. Not only is that the name of the parish where my family and I began our journey into the Church, but it is also where my confessor and many of my oldest and dearest friends remain. …
Read MoreBack at St. Tikhon’s…
Having just been reminded by my ‘missions professor’ to stay up with the site, I thought I’d give a summary of why I’ve been silent for the last month or so…for those of you who may not know. At the end of August I left my home and mission in Oklahoma to return to my…
Read MoreMary Tindell’s Baptism
It was truly a blessed day. After a long distance catechumenate that lasted over a year and a half, Leah Tindell entered the holy Orthodox Church as Mary (Magdalene). In the kind of wonderful (apparent) coincidence that I’m finding comes with being Orthodox, the parish and people that really brought Mary to this point were…
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