The Despotic great feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration of Holy Father Basil the Great was held on Saturday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as based on the Julian calendar.
The Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great was celebrated in the venerable cathedral, officiated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III, and co-officiated by several hierarchs of the Patriarchal Throne and Hagiotaphite hieromonks and priests from other Orthodox Churches.