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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2024-03-17
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Holy Trinity Cathedral

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (419) 243-9189
  • Fax:
  • (419) 243-3799
  • Street Address:

  • 740 Superior Street

  • Toledo, OH 43604
  • Mailing Address:

  • 740 Superior Street

  • Toledo, OH 43604


Contact Information




Services Schedule

Sunday Services Orthros 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM Church School Following Holy Communion Week Day Divine Liturgy Orthros 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM Evening Services Consult Echo Calendar or Weekly Bulletin for times.


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Parish News

Holy Trinity’s Mission Statement:  To worship and glorify God, by promoting the teachings, of the Greek Orthodox Faith. To encourage all members' participation through our Greek culture, educational programs,   community outreach and fundraising activities while serving God, our community and humanity

PARISH COUNCIL MEMBERS USHERING TODAY:

 John Spillson – Maria Tzanakis – Emmanuel Yakumithis – Kristin Zink

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:  In Greek: David Mynihan    English: Paul Sieben  

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY     

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY.  Please stay after church service for coffee, refreshments and fellowship.   

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:    

Sunday, March 17th:  Hope and Joy after Sunday School, Forgiveness Vespers 6 pm

Monday, March 18th:  First Day of Lent Great Compline 6, Byzantine Music Fellowship 7 pm

Tuesday, March 19th:  Bible Study 10 am

Wednesday, March 20th: Pre-Sanctified Liturgy 6 pm Potluck and Lenten Discussion to follow

Thursday, March 21st:  Young at Heart 6 pm

Friday, March 22nd: Confession 6 pm, 1st Salutation 7 pm

Saturday, March 23rd:  3rd Saturday of the Souls Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am, Parents of Young Children 6 pm

Lenten Psalm Readers – Join our Lenten Psalm Reading Group!  It is a 40 Day Psalm Reading Challenge.  Our 20-person group will read through the psalms each day and each individual will read through the Book of Psalms twice during the 40 day fast.  Our group will also be connected through daily prayer and weekly emails. If you are interested, please talk to Pres. Jenny or email at jlegakis75@gmail.com by March 15.

Greek Independence Flag Raising – We will be raising the Greek Flag in honor of Greek Independence Day on Monday March 25 at 11:30 am at One Government Center.  If you would like to carpool we will meet at the church parking lot at 11:00 am.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend and show our support of the Greek community here in Toledo.

YAH has a trip to The Ark Encounter planned for Monday, Oct. 14th - Thursday, Oct.17th.  Cost is $560 per person, double occupancy.  A $75 deposit is due by May 15th.  Final deposit due by August 1, 2024. Only 46 seats available and the trip is now open to anyone in the community and your friends. We had a wonderful time in Cape Cod, so come join us.  Please, see Faye Haberman or Kris Reder if interested.  No credit cards- checks are to be payable to Young at Heart. Secure your seat as soon as possible!

Pantry Ministry Update:  Our Pantry Ministry served 121 people in the month of February. That's the highest number of people in one month that we've served so far!  Please consider donating to this worthy ministry. We will gratefully accept monetary, nonperishable food and hygiene donations. We are especially in need of peanut butter, jelly, canned chef boyardee meals, and canned chicken. Thank you!

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): Thank you for making our first lap blanket distribution of 2024 a heart-warming success! We delivered 85 blankets to residents of Advanced Healthcare Center of Toledo just in time for Valentine's Day. Please remember to donate yarn. Your contributions help us continue the work of helping others in Toledo feel loved and warm. Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM in the Veronie Community Hall. Hope to see you there. For more information or questions, contact Elena Perry (419-265-6275) or Maria Petros (419-473-2387).

Byzantine Music Fellowship is back! Join us on Mondays during Great Lent from 7-8pm in the Veronie Community Center, beginning on March 18. All are welcome! While the ability to read music is a plus, it is not necessary. You just need a willingness to chant hymns to our Lord, the Theotokos, and the Saints.  Please sign up online so we can be sure to provide music for all participants: http://rb.gy/sedp0y

THE RAFTOPOULOS SCHOLARSHIP is now available.  If you would like an application form, please contact the Church office.   Deadline is May 1, 2024.

AHEPA/Daughters Scholarships - The local, District and National scholarships are now available for submission.  The local AHEPA/Daughters scholarships use the same application to determine recipients.  The application can be found at www.toledo.buckeyedistrict11.org.  Due date is April 19, 2024.  The District scholarship application is available online at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org and will be due March 31, 2024.  As a reminder, the District scholarship does not have a minimum GPA requirement. Please refer to www.ahepa.org for details on the National scholarship. A special note to the young men who are applying for the local and/or District scholarships.  Special consideration is given to applicants who are members of either the AHEPA or the Sons of Pericles.  If you are not a member please contact Tony Capranica – 419-540-1150 – about becoming a member of either Order.

YAH has a trip to The Ark Encounter planned for Monday, Oct. 14th - Thursday, Oct.17th.  Cost is $560 per person, double occupancy.  A $75 deposit is due no later than May 15th unless we book up before then.  Final deposit will be due no later than August 1, 2024. Only 46 seats available, so get your deposit in as soon as possible. Please, see Faye Haberman or Kris Reder if interested.  No credit cards- checks are to be payable to Young at Heart. Hope to travel with you & make some great memories!

ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS: ***PROSFORA NEEDED FOR THE MONTHS OF March and April.  Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR June 30,2024 cost is $50 for 2 beautiful vases. It’s a great way to show your support in honor or memory of someone and beautify our altar too! Call the Church office if you’re interested.

UP-COMING MEMORIALS: March 31st – Faye Grevis – 40 days

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Second Mode

O Master, Prudence, Guide of Wisdom, Instruction to the foolish and Defender of the poor, strengthen my heart and grant it discernment. Give me words, Word of the Father, for behold, I shall not keep my lips from crying out to You, "O Merciful One, have mercy on me who has fallen."
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Eighth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:11-18

At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and she told them that He had said these things to her.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 13:11-14; 14:1-4.

Brethren, salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.


Gospel Reading

Forgiveness Sunday
The Reading is from Matthew 6:14-21

The Lord said, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

"And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


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Saints and Feasts

Eden
March 17

Forgiveness Sunday

The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and the transgressing of the divine commandments. For the first commandment that God gave to man was that of fasting, which the first-fashioned received but did not keep; and not only did they not become gods, as they had imagined, but they lost even that blessed life which they had, and they fell into corruption and death, and transmitted these and innumerable other evils to all of mankind. The God-bearing Fathers set these things before us today, that by bringing to mind what we have fallen from, and what we have suffered because of the insatiety and disobedience of the first-fashioned, we might be diligent to return again to that ancient bliss and glory by means of fasting and obedience to all the divine commands. Taking occasion from today's Gospel (Matt. 6:14-21) to begin the Fast unencumbered by enmity, we also ask forgiveness this day, first from God, then from one another and all creation.


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March 17

Alexios the Man of God

Saint Alexis was born in old Rome of illustrious parents named Euphemianus and Aglais, and at their request was joined to a young woman in marriage. However, he did not remain with her even for one day, but fled to Edessa, where he lived for eighteen years. He returned to Rome in the guise of a beggar and sat at the gates of his father's house, unknown to all and mocked by his own servants. His identity was revealed only after his death by a paper that he had on his person, which he himself had written a little before his repose. The pious Emperor Honorius honoured him with a solemn burial. The title "Man of God" was given to him from heaven in a vision to the Bishop of Rome on the day of the Saint's repose.


Allsaint
March 17

Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland

Saint Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish, was seized from his native Britain by Irish marauders when he was sixteen years old. Though the son of a deacon and a grandson of a priest, it was not until his captivity that he sought out the Lord with his whole heart. In his Confession, the testament he wrote towards the end of his life, he says, "After I came to Ireland - every day I had to tend sheep, and many times a day I prayed - the love of God and His fear came to me more and more, and my faith was strengthened. And my spirit was so moved that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers, and almost as many at night, and this even when I was staying in the woods and on the mountain; and I would rise for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain, and I felt no harm." After six years of slavery in Ireland, he was guided by God to make his escape, and afterwards struggled in the monastic life at Auxerre in Gaul, under the guidance of the holy Bishop Germanus. Many years later he was ordained bishop and sent to Ireland once again, about the year 432, to convert the Irish to Christ. His arduous labours bore so much fruit that within seven years, three bishops were sent from Gaul to help him shepherd his flock, "my brethren and sons whom I have baptized in the Lord - so many thousands of people," he says in his Confession. His apostolic work was not accomplished without much "weariness and painfulness," long journeys through difficult country, and many perils; he says his very life was in danger twelve times. When he came to Ireland as its enlightener, it was a pagan country; when he ended his earthly life some thirty years later, about 461, the Faith of Christ was established in every corner.


Allsaint
March 17

Paul the Righteous Martyr


Allsaint
March 17

Marinos the Martyr


Allsaint
March 17

Theocteristos the Confessor


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Wisdom of the Fathers

Spiritual delight is not enjoyment found in things that exists outside the soul.
St. Isaac of Syria
Unknown, 7th century

Do we forgive our neighbors their trespasses? God also forgives us in His mercy. Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness, then, of your sins or unforgiveness, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself, man. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation.
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Unknown, 18th century

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