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Publish Date: 2020-03-08
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Hymns of the Day
Parish News
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Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News
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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

Priest Father Larry Legakis

priestholytrinity@gmail.com | 419-243-9189

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 First Mode

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Sun. of Orthodoxy in the Second Mode

We worship Thine immaculate icon, O Good One, asking the forgiveness of our failings, O Christ our God; for of Thine own will Thou wast well-pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh, that Thou mightest deliver from slavery to the enemy those whom Thou hadst fashioned. Wherefore, we cry to Thee thankfully: Thou didst fill all things with joy, O our Saviour, when Thou camest to save the world.

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 Plagal Fourth Mode

To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"
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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

Steve Jenkins – Harry D. Proestos – Frank Reder – George Sares    

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIALS ARE FOR:   Dr. Don E. Stathulis – 15 years     Catherine Stathulis – 16 years

Dr. E. T. Pappas – 26 years;  Anastasios Pappas – 39 years; Elizabeth Pappas – 44 years; Evangelos Stathulis

65 years   May Their Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY  

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READER IS:   In English: Frank Reder   In Greek: Dr. Panos Doukides    

The Prosfora, Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered this week by

The Stathulis Familyand Mary Dedes    Thank You and God Bless You                                                                                                                                                    

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:           Barbara Ranjo (UTMC)    Savvas Moraitis (Toledo)            

                                       Kostas Tsapranis (St. Charles)     Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: Our Sunday School.   Please join them for coffee, refreshments and fellowship after Church today in our Community Center.

CONDOLENCES to the family of Annette Tokles Pursel whose funeral was this past Wednesday.    

May Her Memory Be Eternal

Greek School Classes today

Pan Orthodox Vespers tonight at St. George on Woodley 6:00 p.m. Pot luck afterwards

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY: 

Monday, March 9th             -Great Compline 6:00 p.m.                                      

                                              -Philoptochos Board meeting 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11th      –Bible Study 10:00 a.m.

                                              -Greek School – Children 4:00 p.m. Adults 6:00 p.m.

                                              -Pre-Sanctified 6:00 p.m. - Speaker will be Bishop Neophytos of Kenya                                               

Thursday, March 12th        -Men’s Bible Study with Bishop Neophytos 6:00 p.m. at Charlie’s on Central

Friday, March 13th             -2nd  Salutations 7:00 p.m. (Confession 6:00 p.m.)                                 

Pan Orthodox Vespers Sunday, March 15th at St. Elias Church 6:00 p.m.   Pot-Luck afterwards

HOLY TRINITY LENTEN EVENT Sponsored by Philoptochos – Benefitting American Veterans

H.O.O.V.ES (Healing of our Veterans Equine Services) Friday, March 20th.  Salutation Service 5 p.m.

Lenten Dinner 6 p.m. Speaker Father William Bartz.  Lenten Project collecting and assembling care packages for veterans.  Items needed: Individual hand sanitizer; toothbrushes, small package of wipes; hot/cold tumbler with lid; individual tissues; toothpaste; deodorant; shampoo; indivual sunscreen; chapstick; bath sponge/poof; conditioner. Please bring your items to the Community Center by March 15th.  Thank you!

GREEK SCHOOL CELEBRATION honoring Greek Independence Day is March 22nd with a presentation & coffee hour

2020 Philoptochos stewardship is now due. Please give donation to Presvytera Ann, Ann Mulopulos,

or Pattie Senerius.

Philoptochos Scholarships available - Qualifying high school seniors can apply for a service scholarship. If interested, please email Stephanie Berardinelli at mrs.berardinelli0728@gmail.com. The deadline to apply is April 30th.    Also if interested, Philoptochos Metropolis is offering the Florence G. Stefanou Memorial Scholarship of $1,000 to qualifying high school seniors OR undergraduate college students attending an accredited college, university, or trade school.

AHEPA/Daughters Scholarships – The local, District and National scholarships are now available for submission. The local scholarship can be accessed at www.toledo.buckeyedistrict11.org and has a due date of April 19.  The District scholarship application is available at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org and is due March 31.  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.

Daughters of Penelope and Philoptochos will be partnering to collect non-perishable food items for a new church pantry.  These food items will be made available to our neighbors that are in need.  For the next two weeks, we will focus on collecting jars of peanut butter and boxes of crackers in a well-marked container in the entryway hall of the Building.  We would love for our entire church community to participate in donating these food items.  Thank you!

We Need Prosfora bakers! It is scheduling time for March and April.  The Prosfora is your gift to our church.   Contact Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email: cmynihan5@gmail.com and sign up for your Sunday(s).

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:  April 12th    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 May 31st.   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 MEMORIALS: March 15th – George Mulopulos – 40 days   May His Memory Be Eternal

Offerings Report: Sunday, March 1st  Trays: $147   Candles: $279  Stewardship: $2,956   Thank you!

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Saints and Feasts

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March 08

Sunday of Orthodoxy

For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June 14), established Orthodoxy anew. This ever-memorable Queen venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of the Patriarch Methodius and the other confessors and righteous men, and openly cried out these holy words: "If anyone does not offer relative worship to the holy icons, not adoring them as though they were gods, but venerating them out of love as images of the archetype, let him be anathema." Then with common prayer and fasting during the whole first week of the Forty-day Fast, she asked God's forgiveness for her husband. After this, on the first Sunday of the Fast, she and her son, Michael the Emperor, made a procession with all the clergy and people and restored the holy icons, and again adorned the Church of Christ with them. This is the holy deed that all we the Orthodox commemorate today, and we call this radiant and venerable day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is, the triumph of true doctrine over heresy.

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March 08

Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia

Theophylact was from the East; his native city is unknown. In Constantinople he became a close friend of Tarsius, who afterwards became Patriarch of Constantinople (see Feb. 25).Theophylact was made Bishop of Nicomedia. After the death of Saint Tarsius, his successor Nicephorus (see June 2) called together a number of Bishops to help him in fighting the iconoclasm of Emperor Leo the Armenian, who reigned from 813-820. Among them was Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis (celebrated Dec. 26), who had attended the holy Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787 - he was exiled three times for the sake of the holy icons, and for defying the Emperor Theophilus' command to renounce the veneration of the icons, was scourged from head to foot until his whole body was one great wound, from which he died eight days later, about the year 830; Joseph of Thessalonica (see July 14); Michael of Synnada (see May 23); Emilian, Bishop of Cyzicus (see Aug. 8); and Saint Theophylact, who boldly rebuked Leo to his face, telling him that because he despised the long-suffering of God, utter destruction was about to overtake him, and there would be none to deliver him. For this, Theophylact was exiled to the fortress of Strobilus in Karia of Asia Minor, where, after 30 years of imprisonment and hardship, he gave up his holy soul about the year 845. Leo the Armenian, according to the Saint's prophecy, was slain in church on the eve of our Lord's Nativity, in 820.

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Hermas the Apostle of the 70

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Paul the Confessor

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Dometios the Righteous

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Felix of Burgundy, Enlightener of East Anglia

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Fifth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:13-35

At that time, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight. They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?" And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40.

Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Reading is from John 1:43-51

At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Moses... was himself saved by means of wood and water before the Law was given, when he was exposed to the Nile's currents, hidden away in an Ark (Exod. 2:3-10). And by means of wood and water he saved the people of Israel, revealing the Cross by the wood, Holy Baptism by water (Exod. 14:15-31). Paul, who had looked upon the mysteries, says openly, 'They were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud' (I Cor. 10:2). He also bears witness that, even before the events concerning the sea and his staff, Moses willingly endured Christ's Cross, 'Esteeming', he says, 'the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt' (Heb. 11:26). For the Cross is the reproach of Christ from the standpoint of foolish men. As Paul himself says of Christ, 'He endured the cross, despising the shame' (Heb. 12:2).
St. Gregory Palamas
Homilies Vol. 1, Homily Eleven para. 14; Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press pg. 123, 14th century

Peter, when after so many miracles and such high doctrine he confessed that, "Thou art the Son of God" (Matt. xvi. 16), is called "blessed," as having received the revelation from the Father;
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 21 on John 1, 1. B#58, pp. 72, 73, 4th Century

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

IONIAN VILLAGE 2020 Summer Session Registration opens

03/05/2020

NEW YORK – The summer of 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of the extraordinary travel abroad Summer Program of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Ionian Village. IV 2020, has opened registration for summer 2020. All are encouraged to visit www.ionianvillage.org for more information and to register.
https://www.goarch.org/-/ionian-village-2020-summer-session-registration-opens

Visit of His Beatitude, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia at the Archdiocese Headquarters

03/04/2020

NEW YORK – On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, His Beatitude, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia visited the Archdiocese Headquarters. In his welcoming remarks, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America expressed his joy in welcoming the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Serbia and highlighted the spirit of cooperation between the Churches, especially in the United States.
https://www.goarch.org/-/visit-of-his-beatitude-patriarch-irinej-of-serbia-at-the-archdiocese-headquarters
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