Visit 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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Dn. 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.   …

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Back 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…

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Mary 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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