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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2019-04-21
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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

Apolytikion for Palm Sunday in the First Mode

In confirming the common Resurrection, O Christ God, Thou didst raise up Lazarus from the dead before Thy Passion. Wherefore, we also, like the children, bearing the symbols of victory, cry to Thee, the Vanquisher of death: Hosanna in the highest; blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.

Apolytikion for Palm Sunday in the Fourth Mode

As by baptism we were buried with Thee, O Christ our God, so by Thy Resurrection we were deemed worthy of immortal life; and praising Thee, we cry: Hosanna in the highest; blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Second Mode

In Heaven, He is seated upon a Throne and on earth He rides upon a foal. O Christ our God, accept the praise of the Angels and the hymn of the Children who cry out to You, "Blessed are You who comes to recall Adam."
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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

All Parish Council Members Ushering Today                                                                                                      

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:   In English: Alex McCullough  In Greek:  Christine Harwood

The Prosfora, the Eucharist Bread, prepared on behalf of all the worshipping faithfulwas offered this week by Sue Sares, Connie Mynihan & Niki Mouratidis    Thank You and God Bless You

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:      Ilias Bekos (Toledo)      Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

Daughters of Penelope Bake Sale continues today -

Service of the Bridegroom tonight 7:00 p.m.

HOLY WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Holy Monday, April 22nd          –Bridegroom Service 7:00 p.m.

Holy Tuesday, April 23rd           –Bridegroom Service 7:00 p.m.

Holy Wednesday, April 24th   -Pre-Sanctified Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m.  

                                                   -Holy Unction 3:00 p.m.

                                                   -Holy Unction 7:00 p.m.  

Holy Thursday, April 25th       -Vesperal Divine Liturgy 7:30 a.m.

                                                   -Service of the Twelve Gospels 7:00 p.m.

Holy Friday, April 26th            Church Office Closed  

                                                   -The Royal Hours 9:00 a.m.

                                                   -Service of the Un-Nailing from the Cross 2:00 p.m.

                                                   -Lamentations Service 7:00 p.m.

Holy Saturday, April 27th        -Vesperal Divine Liturgy 9:30 a.m. with Jr. Choir – Easter Hunt and

                                                     Pancake breakfast afterwards for the egg hunters.  

                                                   -Orthros of Easter and Divine Liturgy 11:00 p.m. – Mageritsa Afterwards  

Holy Pascha, April 28th           -Agape Vespers at Noon here at Holy Trinity       

Please contact Fr. Larry if you would like to read the Gospel in a different language at the Agape Service.

Prosfora Bakers: NO BAKERS have signed up to make Prosfora for our Saturday, April 27 morning service or our evening service.  Call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 NOW and offer your service.

If you would like to take home some Easter soup from the Mageritsa please bring your own container.

Decorated Easter Lampatha’s are available in our Bookstore – $15

ATTENTION all High School & College Graduates – please call the church office with your graduation information so you can be included in the program booklet at the Scholarship Luncheon. We need the school you graduated from, any honors received and future plans.

HOLY TRINITY OPINION-SURVEY – The Parishioner Opinion Survey seeks to gather your candid personal opinions on a variety of topics by April 28th. Each and every adult parishioner over the age of 18 years is asked to complete a separate survey:  husbands and wives must each complete separate surveys; adult children in a household, whether at home or away at school should complete a separate survey.  The Parishioner Opinion survey is available in both a hard copy, paper format and also electronically.  It can be completed online from any computer or hand-held device and takes 2 minutes to complete at: 

holytrinitytoledo.com/opinion-survey

Philoptochos & Daughter’s Mother’s Day Dinner Tuesday, May 7th at Georgio’s, 6:00 p.m.

AN EVENING OF MUSIC with Joanne Chrysochoos & Andreea Lee in support of Holy Trinity’s Music Ministry – Thursday, May 30th 7:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church on Central Ave.  

Young at Heart Trip to Chicago June 28, 29, 30. This is open to all over the age of 18. This will be a bus trip and guided tour including an architectural cruise on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, Hancock Tower, Navy Pier, Guided tour of Chicago, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners  - one of which will be in Greek Town, hotel, transportation and much more. Price is $399.00, a deposit of $100.00 is due April 21st, and balance is due May 5th. For more Information contact Tina Papalekas, 419-382-1552.

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.  Philoptochos Service Scholarship correspondence is all through email. 

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.

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

May 1st is the deadline. 

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 Sundays: June 9th & 16th       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!

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR July 28th .   The 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 MEMORIALSMay 26th George (14 yrs.) & Virginia (3 yrs.)  Grevis; All Deceased members of Young at Heart     May Their Memory Be Eternal

Offerings Report: Sunday, April 14th  Candles: $250  Trays: $116  Stewardship: $ 2,679  Thank you!

                          

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Saints and Feasts

Palmsunday
April 21

Palm Sunday

On Sunday, five days before the Passover of the Law, the Lord came from Bethany to Jerusalem. Sending two of His disciples to bring Him a foal of an ass, He sat thereon and entered into the city. When the multitude there heard that Jesus was coming, they straightway took up the branches of palm trees in their hands, and went forth to meet Him. Others spread their garments on the ground, and yet others cut branches from the trees and strewed them in the way that Jesus was to pass; and all of them together, especially the children, went before and after Him, crying out: "Hosanna: Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord, the King of Israel" (John 12:13). This is the radiant and glorious festival of our Lord's entry into Jerusalem that we celebrate today.

The branches of the palm trees symbolize Christ's victory over the devil and death. The word Hosanna means "Save, I pray," or "Save, now." The foal of an ass, and Jesus' sitting thereon, and the fact that this animal was untamed and considered unclean according to the Law, signified the former uncleanness and wildness of the nations, and their subjection thereafter to the holy Law of the Gospel.


Allsaint
April 21

The Holy Hieromartyr Januarius and Those With Him

These Martyrs contested for piety's sake in Campania of Italy, during the reign of Diocletian (284-305), when Timothy was Proconsul. Saint Januarius was the Bishop of Benevento in Campania; he was arrested and taken to Nola, where he was cast into a burning furnace, from which he came forth unharmed; at Puteoli, together with Proculus, Sosius, and Faustus the deacons, Desiderius, reader of the Church of Benevento, and Eurychius and Acutius, nobles from Puteoli, he was cast to wild beasts, which as they came near the Saints, fell affectionately at their feet. Finally they were all beheaded, about the year 305.


Allsaint
April 21

Alexandra the Martyr

Martyr Alexandra, the Empress and wife of Emperor Diocletion, was so impressed by the courage and martyrdom of St George that she became a Christian and fell under the same persecution. She also was condemned to be beheaded but when she arrived at the place of execution she asked to be allowed to sit down. Her request was granted. She sat down and died quietly before the executioners could carry out their task. Her feast day is 21 April.


Allsaint
April 21

Our Holy Father Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople


Allsaint
April 21

Theodore the Holy Martyr & his mother Philippa of Perge


Allsaint
April 21

Anastasios the Monk of Sinai


Allsaint
April 21

Beuno, Abbot of Clynnog


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Palm Sunday
The Reading is from Matthew 21:1-11; 15-17

At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If any one says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord has need of them,' and he will send them immediately." This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

"Tell the daughter of Zion,
Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their garments on them, and he sat thereon. Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" And when he entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?" And the crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee." But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant; and they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read,

'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings,
you have brought perfect praise'?"

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 117.26,1.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Verse: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His mercy endures forever.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 4:4-9.

BRETHREN, rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you.


Gospel Reading

Palm Sunday
The Reading is from John 12:1-18

Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazaros was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazaros was one of those at table with him. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. Jesus said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."

When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazaros, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests planned to put Lazaros also to death, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!" And Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it; as it is written, "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazaros out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

But observe the wisdom of the Evangelist, how he is not ashamed to parade their former ignorance. That it was written they knew, that it was written of Him they knew not. For it would have offended them if He being a King were about to suffer such things, and be so betrayed.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 66 on John 12, 2. B#58, p.245., 4th Century

Besides, they could not at once have taken in the knowledge of the Kingdom of which He spake; for another Evangelist saith, that they thought the words were spoken of a kingdom of this world. (Matt. xx. 21.)
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 66 on John 12, 2. B#58, p.245., 4th Century

Because all their kings had mostly been unjust and covetous and subjected them to wars ... he said to them, 'Trust me, I am not like them. I am gentle and mild.' He demonstrated this by the manner of his entrance, not entering at the head of an army but simply riding on a donkey.
St. John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Gospel of John, 66.1. Taken from: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol: John. Intervarsity Press, 2007, p. 55.

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