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Services Schedule |
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Sunday Lauds · Litany Mass 10:00 AM |
Saturday Catechism & Vespers 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM |
Wednesday Catechism & Vespers Call For Schedule |
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✠Ancient Faith Unbroken apostolic tradition from the first century Church |
📖Western Rite Liturgical Style Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great |
🏛️Historic Church Meeting at the historic Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary, Desloge |
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Our Beginnings
Restoring Orthodoxy to the Mineral Area
Orthodox Christianity first made its way to the Mineral Area at the turn of the 20th century. Immigrants from Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) built a permanent church building in Desloge, MO — still standing to this day.
After the last service in 2018, we gathered to re-establish Orthodox worship. On June 4, 2024, we were raised to an official Mission within the Antiochian Archdiocese. |
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The Western Rite
Orthodox Faith, Western Expression
Most Orthodox Christians are familiar with the Eastern Rite — the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. St. Mary's uses the Western Rite, the liturgy of St. Gregory the Great, approved by the Church of Antioch in 1958.
"Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must be Eastern. The West was fully Orthodox for a thousand years." |
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