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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2019-02-24
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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 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy 10:15 AM Evening Vesperal Divine Liturgy 6:00 PM Consult Echo Calendar or Weekly Bulletin for times.


Past Bulletins


Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode

Angelic powers were above Thy tomb, and they that guarded Thee became as dead. And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate Body. Thou hast despoiled Hades and wast not tried thereby. Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life. O Thou Who didst arise from the dead, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for 1st and 2nd Finding of the Head of the Forerunner in the Fourth Mode

The Forerunner's sacred head, having dawned forth from the earth, doth send incorruption's rays unto the faithful, whereby they find healings of their ills. From on high he gathereth the choirs of the Angels and on earth he summoneth the whole race of mankind, that they with one voice might send up glory to Christ our God.

Apolytikion of the Church in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fisherman all-wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them, drawing all the world into Your net. O Loving One, glory be to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

O Father, foolishly I ran away from Your glory, and in sin, squandered the riches You gave me. Wherefore, I cry out to You with the voice of the Prodigal, "I have sinned before You Compassionate Father. Receive me in repentance and take me as one of Your hired servants."
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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

Kathy Chaka – Greg Cook – Dr. Dean Kopan

THIS WEEK’S TRISAGION PRAYERS ARE FOR:  Stamatis Argyroudi – 40 Days  Stamatina Spathopoulos – 4 years     Kalliope Lazaridou – 11 years  May Their Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Bill & Janis Plomaritisin honor of their 10th wedding anniversarywhich was February 21st .   May God Continue to Bless Them Always   

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:  In English:  Kathy Andros  In Greek:  Anthi Christides

The Prosfora, the Eucharist Bread, prepared on behalf of all the worshipping faithfulwas offered this week by the Legakis Family and Dr. Susan Sieben      Thank You and God Bless You

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY:   Roula and Phyllis Manton in loving memory of Kalliope Lazaridou and Stamatis Argyroudi.  May Their Memory Be Eternal     Please join them for coffee, refreshments and fellowship after Church today in our Community Center.

GOYA Bake Sale today – Support our youth and get some sweet treats to take home!

Book Club is today at 4:00 p.m. at Presbytera and Father Larry's home.   If you would like to bring something small to share let Presbytera know. 

GREEK SCHOOL today after Sunday school

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, February 25th      -Philoptochos General meeting 7:00 p.m.  

Tuesday, February 26th      -Byzantine Music Fellowship 7-8:00 p.m.                                        

Wednesday, February 27th -Bible Study 10:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

                                               -Greek School children 4-6pm Adults 6-9 a.m.

                                               -Long Range Planning meeting at Michael’s 5:30 p.m.

Friday, March 1st                 -Frappe with Fr. Larry 6:00 p.m. at Sip

Saturday, March 2nd           -1st Saturday of Souls  Orthros 9:00 a.m.  Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.

APOKREATIKO “Greek Mardi Gras” – Sunday, March 3rd 2019 following the Divine Liturgy

sponsored by AHEPA and Daughters of Penelope - Great food, Dancing, Fellowship.  All proceeds to benefit AHEPA family scholarships. 

Oratorical festival on March 10thThe youth of our Cathedral will be participating in the Saint John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival.  Please make every effort to support our children who have worked so hard to make art projects, poetry and speeches.

Annual Michigan Area GOYA Lenten Retreat:  This year's retreat is will be hosted here in Toledo!  The retreat will be Saturday, March 23, 2019.  For more information and to register please visit    www.detroit.goarch.org/migoya

Prosfora bakers! It is scheduling time for March, April, and May. Check your schedules and please be generous with your time. Contact Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email: cmynihan5@gmail.comand sign up for your Sunday(s). 

Philoptochos is offering a Service scholarship to graduating Seniors. If interested, please email Stephanie Berardinelli at mrs.berardinelli0728@gmail.com. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 30th. If you have any additional questions either email or call her at 419.276.0964.

Metropolis of Detroit Philoptochos Scholarship available - The Florence Stefanou Memorial Scholarship. Application is on the Metropolis of Detroit Philoptochos website (https://www.detroit.goarch.org/philoptochos.html) Deadline is April 30th.

Attention Students!   AHEPA and Daughters of Penelope Scholarship are now available.    For Toledo, Ohio Graduating High School Seniors, visit  www.toledo.buckeyedistrict11.org --Daughters

-- Daughters Scholarships and Awards     Deadline for this scholarship is April 19.  For College undergrads whose parents or applicants are members of AHEPA or Daughters of Penelope:  Deadline March 31, 2019 Visit:  AHEPA.org/Education for AHEPA Scholarships   Visit:  DaughtersOfPenelope.org --Forms --Resources and Applications.   For College undergrads whose parents or applicants are members of Buckeye District 11 (this includes Toledo Chapters)       Visit:  www.bsf.buckeyedistrct11.org     Deadline is March 31, 2019

The Dion Raftopoulos Scholarship Award is now available.  Please call the Church office for an application.  May 1st is the deadline. 

KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS:   "On Sunday, April 7th there will be a drawing for Kroger Rewards participants.  Please, bring your Kroger receipt indicating Philoptochos as your selection to the Kroger Community Rewards Program.  You will then complete one ballot, which will be placed in a box for the prize drawing.  If you are not linked to Philoptochos with Kroger Rewards, you still have time to sign up and shop before April 7th.  Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Philoptochos ID# is CM658." 

Sunday Coffee Hours - There are many Sundays available and it is a great way for your family, or a few families together, to offer fellowship and refreshments to our community.  Open Sunday: March 31st.    In the event that no one signs up for a Sunday to host a coffee hour, only coffee will be available at the Community Center.  So come one, come all and sign up today to host a "Holy Trinity Coffee Hour Please call the Church office today and offer to sign up for a Sunday to host a coffee hour!

UP-COMING MEMORIALSMarch 3rd - Andreas Nicolaou – 6 months; Demetra Theodorou – 40 days. March 10th - Matina Nicholas – 40 days; March 17th - Pete Athanas – 3 years   May Their Memory Be Eternal

Offerings Report: Sunday, Feb. 17th Candles: $240 Trays: $140  Stewardship: $927 Thank you!

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Saints and Feasts

Prodson
February 24

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Through the parable of today's Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God's compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and Pharisee so that, seeing in the person of the Prodigal Son our own wretched condition -- inasmuch as we are sunken in sin, far from God and His Mysteries -- we might at last come to our senses and make haste to return to Him by repentance during these holy days of the Fast.

Furthermore, those who have wrought many great iniquities, and have persisted in them for a long time, oftentimes fall into despair, thinking that there can no longer be any forgiveness for them; and so being without hope, they fall every day into the same and even worse iniquities. Therefore, the divine Fathers, that they might root out the passion of despair from the hearts of such people, and rouse them to the deeds of virtue, have set the present parable at the forecourts of the Fast, to show them the surpassing goodness of God's compassion, and to teach them that there is no sin -- no matter how great it may be -- that can overcome at any time His love for man.


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February 24

First & Second Finding of the Venerable Head of John the Baptist

The first finding came to pass during the middle years of the fourth century, through a revelation of the holy Forerunner to two monks, who came to Jerusalem to worship our Saviour's Tomb. One of them took the venerable head in a clay jar to Emesa in Syria. After his death it went from the hands of one person to another, until it came into the possession of a certain priest-monk named Eustathius, an Arian. Because he ascribed to his own false belief the miracles wrought through the relic of the holy Baptist, he was driven from the cave in which he dwelt, and by dispensation forsook the holy head, which was again made known through a revelation of Saint John, and was found in a water jar, about the year 430, in the days of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, when Uranius was Bishop of Emesa.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Sixth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:36-53

At that time, Jesus, having risen from the dead, stood in the midst of his disciples and said to them, "Peace to you." But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them.

Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled. Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high."

Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him, and they returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15.

Brethren, it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.


Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Prodigal Son
The Reading is from Luke 15:11-32

The Lord said this parable: "There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.' But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, 'Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!' And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"


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Wisdom of the Fathers

He who truly wishes to believe in God must be lifted above himself, his mind, and even the whole world. For this reason, the value of faith is considered higher than the value of man. It is even higher than the value of the whole world. Therefore, the reward of faith should be higher than all of man's possessions along with the glories of this world. The reward of faith is God.
Fr. Matthew the Poor
Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way, p. 74, 20th century

What is it that I love when I love you? Not the beauty of a body or the comeliness of time. Nor the luster of the light pleasing to the eyes, nor the sweet melodies of all manner of songs, nor the fragrance of flowers, ointments and spices, not manna and honey, nor limbs welcome to the embrace of the flesh - I do not love these when I love my God. And yet there is a kind of light, a kind of voice, a kind of fragrance, a kind of foods, a kind of embrace, when I love my God, who is the light, voice, fragrance, food, embrace of the inner man, where there shines into the soul that which no place can contain, and there sounds forth that which time cannot end, where there is fragrance which no breeze disperses, taste which eating does not make less, and a clinging together which fulfillment does not terminate. It is this that I love when I love my God.
St. Augustine
Confessions 10.6 in The Confessions of St. Augustine, p. 244, 5th century

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