St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio

St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio is the only Jacobite Church serving Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Western New York State and Northeast Indiana and Northwest West Virginia. This church is part of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America and is in communion with Oriental Orthodox Churches and enjoys partial communion with Catholic Church. His Eminence Mor Titus Yeldho is the Archbishop & Patriarchal Vicar. The Archdiocese is under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch & All The East and the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church. The Church services are primarily conducted in Malayalam. The liturgy is interspersed with English and Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic spoken by Lord Jesus. What is special about Syriac Orthodox Church? - video produced by BBC

Next Service: Holy Qurbana

Up Coming Services

Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 9:30 AM

Holy Qurbana.
Rev. Fr. Roy Paul Vettikkattil will conduct the service.
Intercessional Prayer Request

For those who will be taking Ettu Nombu (8-Day Lent) this year, we will have special prayers and intercession to St. Mary. This will mark the conclusion of the lent.

Please note the location.

Location:

Epiphany Lutheran Church
10503 Valley view Road,
Northfield, OH 44067
Directions

(Lower Level. Use leftmost door (west) when you face the building. Note: The service is not in the sanctuary.)

Park in the main Parking lot (West Entrance). The service will be on the Parking lot level at the west side of the Hall.

Contact for more information:

Dr. Jacob Mathew, Secretary, 330-656-3264
Robin Roy, Treasurer, 440-821-4856

Next Service: Sunday, October 10
Church Day

Sunday, Sept. 5 at 9:30 AM
(Late starting time so you can attend after the KAO Onam program on previous night)

Services in Detroit, MI

Monday, Sept 6, 2010 at 8 AM
Perunnal at St. Mary's Church, 25566 Lahser Rd, Southfield, MI
HE Yeldho Mor Titus will lead the service

Church Day - Patron Saint's Day
Sunday, October 10 2010 Holy Qurbana

We are making the final plans for our first church day celebrations. It is possible we will have some programs on Saturday (October 9) evening too as part of the celebrations. So, please keep both Saturday evening and Sunday Morning free. Invite your friends. We will keep you informed about the plans.

Intercession from Baselios Church, from the Heart of North America

Since there are many people who have no access to a genuine Syriac Orthodox Church, Baselios Church is providing the opportunity for you to register the names of you and/or your loved ones to be remembered and prayed for by the celebrant priest (or Bishop) during our regularly scheduled services (including the church Day - the feast of St. Basil. Please register electronically. This service is free. But we request that you pray for our church. Register. (Register at least 24 hours before the service.)

Service at Louisville, KY
August 21, 2010

Service at Detroit, MI
August 15, 2010

Services at Northfield, OH
August 8, 2010

On August 21, 2010, we had a service at Louisville, KY. The services were conducted by Rev. Fr. Dr. Geevarghese Kunnathu, MD. It was held at the beautiful chapel of St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church. Look at some photos.

Roy achan was requested to conduct a service at St. Mary's Church, Detroit, MI on August 15, 2010. It was a great service.

With our new location, we started the services late so people could get some beauty sleep before coming to the service. We had a great turnout for the service.

Baselios Church at The Malankara Archdiocese Silver Jubilee Convention

July 22-25, 2010, Somerset, NJ
www.MalankaraConvention.org

Baselios Church participated in a big way in this year's convention. Teams from our church competed in the Cultural Competition and in Choir Competition. We got a coveted spot in the historic 25-inmel qurbana. Our church members were the active members who served many injured and sick as part of the Emergency Medical Team. The official webmaster for the convention was our member and people could not say enough about the website. And the list goes on and on...

See the photo album

Baselios Church in the Heritage Procession:

Watch us at approx. 1 min 35 second mark in the movie!

More convention movies at:
http://www.malankaraconvention.org/movies_dir.htm

More photos will be posted on the convention website soon.

Silver Jubilee Convention is over. And what a convention it was! It was historic in every sense of the word. And Baselios Church, Cleveland was an active participant.

Our church was the only church from about half dozen churches that started in the archdiocese that actively participated in every aspect of the convention - from top leadership, to sponsorship, to participating in both the choir and cultural competitions. They were all capped by participation in the historic 25-inmel qurbana. Dr. Jacob Mathew was the altar assistant in altar #11. (This was a very coveted spot in the qurbana as everyone from the big churches, some with more than a quarter century of experience serving in the altar wanted to get a role out of the 25 available ones and were left standing at the steps of the altar platform. To make it more interesting (although I didn't know it at that time), Dr. Mathew was given the left most altar in the row. Our church gives big importance to the left side. The senior most occupies this coveted spot and the junior most occupies the right most slot. Most of the altars in front were manned by Rev. Deacons who come higher in spiritual hierarchy.) God indeed works in mysterious ways. There is more to this story. ....

See More photos of Baselos Church at the Silver Jubilee Convention

News from the parish, archdiocese, and from the mother church
New: New Bishops for the Archdiocese

Resources

Poem: Whatever your cross

Prayers: We will be adding important prayers. New: Thanksgiving Prayer

Bible Study - Gospel of Matthew

Multimedia Resources

Spiritual Resources
Collection of articles, prayers, sermons etc. useful for a spiritual life

New Article:

Blessings & Difficulties
In the world we live in today, it is very easy to get so incredibly caught up in all of the demands that culture places on us that we don't have any time to spend with God.

Can You Run and Hide from God?
Lessons from Jonah and Ninevah.

Some Thoughts on the Book of Revelation

Weekly Devotional with Fr. (Dr.) Dimitri Ross, New Zealand
Fr. Dimitri is a well known scholar in Easter Orthodoxy and will share his message with us. Archives are available.

New in Photo Album! Photos from November 22, 2009 Qurbana Service - Annunciation to St. Mary