Weekly Services
Please consult our calendar for a complete schedule of the Divine Services celebrated at St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church.
Divine Liturgy
Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Saturday Feasts at 9:00 a.m.
Weekday Feasts at 8:00 a.m.
Vigil
Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
On the Eve of Weekday and Saturday Feasts at 6:00 p.m.
Confession on Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. as well as during and following Vigil
To experience the scarcely observed beauty of
Christian Holy Tradition
as given to us by our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ,
truly, all must… “Come and See!”
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The Orthodox Church has long understood that one person governance is very vulnerable, otherwise there would be no unanimous voice of Twelve Apostles and no conciliarity. God's plan is for the authorities to remember their responsibility before God and the people. Any dictatorial regimes are contrary to God's plan, and they do not last long. And the Church, in which conciliar governance operates, has been testifying for two thousand years that this system, which was established by the Lord Himself and the apostles, cannot be shaken by any external forces, even those very hostile to the Church. But conciliarity can also be vulnerable. All sorts of heresies and schisms arose both in world Orthodoxy and in our Church. What is needed for conciliarity to always be preserved as an infallible system of governance? Two conditions are necessary: the unanimity of the episcopate, the clergy, and the strong faith of the people. Because sometimes those in power, including the hierarchs, fell into error, but the conciliar principle corrected those errors. It is precisely this system that we call conciliarity, and we must thank God for the fact that it exists in our Church and helped us to go through the most difficult trials, which cannot be compared even with the persecutions that befell the Church during the times of the ancient emperors.![]()
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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Fortieth Anniversary of St Basil the Great Orthodox Church in St Louis
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