Serving Our Neighbors

The mission of the Saint Basil Food Pantry is to serve God and our neighbors in the community by providing food to those in need. Many of our fellow neighbors do not have access to healthy foods or the means to purchase the necessary staples. Our food pantry has partnered with Kroger, Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana and Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank to provide free groceries to help support those who may be facing food shortages in challenging economic times.

Shop for Food: Come Visit Us!
Please note we will be closed for Holy Week on Monday, April 29.
MONDAYS
4:00 - 6:00 PM

Grocery Shopping
Common Food Items Include: Eggs, bread, fresh produce, select meats, cereal, soups, pastas, pasta sauce, beef ravioli, spaghettiOs, chili, canned chicken, tuna, oatmeal, selection of fruits, veggies, mashed potatoes, hamburger helper, chicken broth, stove top stuffing, peanut butter, jelly, crackers, rice, baby food, pancake mix, syrup, vegetable oil, dry milk, coffee, apple juice, juice boxes, hot chocolate, teas, variety of snacks and more.

Snacks for Kids: Granola bars, graham crackers, pop tarts, peach cups, fruit cups, apple sauce, fruit snacks, peanut butter and crackers, pudding, oatmeal cups, mac & cheese cups, ramen noodles, juice boxes, snacks (i.e. chips, pretzels, popcorn, etc.) and more.

Pet Food: Dog food and cat food available every Monday.

Toilet paper will be distributed on the First Monday of the Month.

Hygiene Products (The Second Monday of the Month): Deodorant, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste and soaps.

Shopping Frequency
Families will receive free groceries, produce, and pet food once a week.

Service Area and Eligibility
Open to everyone in need.

Contact Information

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Saint Basil Food Pantry
3500 W. 106th Street
Carmel, IN 46032
Phone: 317-900-1714
E-mail: FoodPantry@htcindy.org 

Together We Can Make A Difference: Give Online or By Mail

The mission of the Saint Basil Food Pantry is to serve God and our neighbors in the community by providing food to those in need. Thank you for supporting the mission of the Saint Basil Food Pantry. Your generosity serves our neighbors in the community who are experiencing hunger. Please make an online donation through Realm, or click here to download and print a mailable donation form.

The Life of Saint Basil the Great

Saint Basil the Great is a great Church Father in the fourth century, known especially for his philanthropic labors to help those in need. He defended the Orthodox Christian faith against heresies and is also credited to have advanced Christian theology, especially concerning the All-Holy Trinity.

Saint Basil was born in Cappadocia to a family of other future saints, including Saint Macrina and Saint Gregory of Nyssa. He studied in Constantinople and Athens, obtaining knowledge and devoting himself to Christ through the monastic life. Eventually, Saint Basil was ordained Bishop of Caesarea. In this position, he devoted his life to helping those in need while distributing the entirety of his inheritance to the poor. He also used Church funds to open soup kitchens where he was often found serving food and wearing an apron. Saint Basil famously founded the world’s first hospital, hospice, an orphanage, reform centers and homeless shelters for the poor. 

Pray to Saint Basil for Help

O great and most glorious hierarch of Christ, divinely wise teacher of the Church in all the world, firm confessor and champion of Orthodoxy, all-blessed Father Basil, look down from the heights of Heaven upon us who humbly fall down before you, and entreat the Lord Almighty, Whose faithful minister on earth you were, to grant us a firm and unchanging custody of the right Faith, obedience to the Holy Church, a correction of our way of life, and swift help patience and strength in all our needs, sorrows and temptations.

Bestow your holy blessing upon us, so that, protected by it, we might live every day in a manner pleasing unto God, in peace and penitence, and be vouchsafed together with you and all the saints, in the kingdom of Heaven to hymn and glorify the Life-creating Trinity: the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, for ages of ages. Amen.

Inspirational Quotes by Saint Basil
“If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.”
“A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
"The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor."
"It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight."
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
"Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit."
"I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practice it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another. Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me."