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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2020-09-20
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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 9:00 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

 Emmanuel T. Yakumithis  – Dr. Dean Kopan – Debbie Morris

  40-DAY BLESSING FOR:  Baby Tessa born August 11th to parents John & Abby Buldas 

May God Continue to Bless Her Always

  TRISAGION PRAYERS FOR:      Gus Matthews – 10 years    May His Memory Be Eternal

  THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY:  Mr. & Mrs. John Patroulis in loving memory of Dimitrios & Vasiliki Patroulis, brother George Patroulis, and nephew James Patroulis.  May Their Memory Be Eternal

  CONDOLENCES to the family of Stanley Kakmis whose funeral was this past Wednesday

 May His Memory Be Eternal

  OUTDOOR COFFEE HOUR TODAY after Church.  Please join in us in the court yard for a coffee hour sponsored by our Sunday School. 

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY All meetings are On line:

Monday, September 21st-      Philoptpchos Zoom Meeting 7 pm 

Tuesday, September 22nd-     Parish Council Meeting 7:30 pm 

Wednesday, September 23rd-Bible Study 10 am and 7pm 

                                               Adult Greek School via Zoom 

Thursday, September 24th-   St. Thekla Divine Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am 

                                              Hope and Joy Apple picking 5:30 Erie Orchard                                   

Friday, September 25th-       Taverna Talk 

Saturday, September 26th-   Children’s Greek School via Zoom 

                                              Parents of Young Children Zoom gathering 8 pm 

                                              AHEPA Golf Outing 

Sunday School:  Today is Sunday School Sunday!  We ask that after Andtidoro all kids please go back to your seats for a short lesson.  

Greek Kitchen:  Greek Kitchen is back!  Please see order forms for more information or click on this linkhttps://www.holytrinitytoledo.com/greek-kitchen/ 

PASTICHIO FOR SALE $25 per tray.  Please see George after Church or call the Church office if you’re interested. 

Philoptochos Collection Tray:  Please consider donating to Hellenic College Holy Cross Seminary. This is one of Philoptochos’ ministries that we contribute to every year. You may contribute online at holytrinitytoledo.com. Click on “Donate”, choose Philoptochos and note Holy Cross.  You may also send a check to the church office and note “Philoptochos-Holy Cross”.   Or you may leave your donation in tray following Divine Liturgy.  Thank you for supporting the next generation of Orthodox clergy.

AHEPA Ypsilanti #118 Golf Outing For anyone interested Ypsilanti #118 will be having a fun for the day Golf Outing at Brandywine CC on September 26 starting at 2:00 PM.  It was decided that this wouldn’t be a fund raiser for this year.  We’ll have our regular fund raiser in June.  This is just an outing to get together and have some fun and fellowship.  We’ll play 18 holes and then gather at their restaurant or patio and order from the menu.  You will pay for your golf and dinner individually.  Please contact Tony Capranica to reserve a tee time.  419-540-1150 – tony.capranica@gmail.com 

It's that time of year again! The Toledo Daughters of Penelope wish to bring together the entire local Greek Orthodox Community to help raise awareness and funds to honor and help all our beloved friends and family who have been touched with Alzheimer's. Please join our team, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community, to participate in a virtual walk and to help raise money for a cure to end Alzheimer's. The Walk to End Alzheimer's will take place on October 10th. Please visit the link below to get details and to donate. Thank you for your support of the "Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community" Team!
Walk to End Alzheimer's

ARE YOU CURRENT WITH YOUR STEWARDSHIP PLEDGE?... We’re nearing the final quarter of this year’s Stewardship Campaign and if you haven’t paid or pledged – now is the time.  Thank you to everyone who has paid their pledge in full and who are current.  We appreciate it! 

Greek School News:  During the restrictions of the current Covid-19 pandemic, classes will begin online via the Zoom platform.  Youth Classes will occur Saturdays, beginning September 19, 2020, and Adult Classes will occur Wednesdays, beginning September 16, 2020.  All classes conclude by May 12, 2021.  Greek School will switch to in-person classes when allowed.  For Registration information please go to Holy Trinity Toledo Greek School 2020-2021 Registration – Youth or Holy Trinity Toledo Greek School 2020-2021 Registration - Adult.  Below is the schedule.

Schedule details are provided below. 

YOUTH CLASSES            ZOOM CLASS TIMES 

Kindergarten                     Saturdays, beginning 9/19/20           9:20-10:00 am 

Level 1/First Grade            Saturdays, beginning 9/19/20          10:00-10:40 am 

Level 2/ Second Grade      Saturdays, beginning 9/19/20          10:50-11:30 am 

Level 3/Third Grade          Saturdays, beginning 9/19/20          11:40 am-12:20 pm 

Level 4 and above              See Adult Class Schedule  

ADULT CLASSES            ZOOM CLASS TIMES 

Beginner/Session I             Wednesdays, beginning 9/16/20      6:00-6:40 pm 

Intermediate/Session II      Wednesdays, beginning 9/16/20      6:40-7:20 pm 

Advanced/Session III         Wednesdays, beginning 9/16/20      7:20-8:00 pm 

New Ministry!  Warm Hands to Warm Hearts of Holy Trinity:  Open to all members, young, old, male, or female.  All you have to do is knit or crochet, any kind of yarn, any size of needle or hook, any color or any pattern, just so it is the size of 7 inches by 9 inches.  When you are done drop it in a box in the Narthex and it will be turned into a Scarf, a Baby Blanket or Lap Blanket that can be given by Father Larry to make a shut in feel warm and that they are remembered by our Church.  For more details please see the attached description.  For questions please call Dorothy Yakumithis (419-867-0734) or Phyllis Manton ( 419-290-2527). 

Phase 2:  Please remember that we have entered into phase 2 of reopening.  Phase 2 means that we are allowed to have more people in Church.  The number has increased to 60 people.  All of the other restrictions and directives contain to be in use.  Please see the revised protocol for more information.     

Reminder and Thank you!  We would like to thank everyone for your patience as we continue to open up our beloved Cathedral.  We thank you for doing your best to follow the rules that we have been asked to put into place.  We would also like to remind you to please keep your mask on even after you find your seat.  The only 

ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS:  Prosfora is needed for the months of September and October.  Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com 

ALTAR FLOWERSD ARE NEEDED FOR January 17th 24th & 31st 2021.   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 MEMORIAL SERVICES:   September 27th – Costas Sevastakis – 10 yrs;  October 4th – John Veronie - 6 months; October 25th - Pauline (Photos) Kambour – 6 months   May Their Memory Be Eternal

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Fourth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:1-12

On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of man must be delivered in to the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise." And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Second Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20.

Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gospel Reading

Sunday after Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1

The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

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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 Afterfeast of the Holy Cross in the First Mode

Save, O Lord, Thy people and bless Thine inheritance; grant Thou unto the faithful victory over adversaries. And by the power of Thy Cross do Thou preserve Thy commonwealth.

Apolytikion for Martyr Eustathius and His Companions in the Fourth Mode

Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their courageous contest for Thee received as the prize the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our immortal God. For since they possessed Thy strength, they cast down the tyrants and wholly destroyed the demons' strengthless presumption. O Christ God, by their prayers, save our souls, since Thou art merciful.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

Lifted up on the Cross by Your free will, Christ God, grant mercies to the new commonwealth that bears Your name. Gladden our faithful rulers by Your power, giving them victories over their adversaries. May Your alliance be for them a weapon for peace, an invincible standard.
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Saints and Feasts

Exaltation
September 20

Sunday after Holy Cross

Eustathi
September 20

Eustathius the Great Martyr, his wife and two children

The holy Martyr Eustathius before his baptism was an illustrious Roman general named Placidas in the days of the Emperor Trajan. While hunting in the country one day, he was converted to the Faith of Christ through the apparition of an uncommonly majestic stag, between whose antlers he saw the Cross of Christ, and through which the Lord spoke to him with a human voice. Upon returning home, he learned that his wife Tatiana had also had a vision in which she was instructed to become a Christian. They sought out the Bishop of the Christians and were baptized, Placidas receiving the name Eustathius, and Tatiana the name Theopiste; their two sons were baptized Agapius and Theopistus. The family was then subjected to such trials as Job endured. Their servants died, all their goods were stolen, and on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem they were scattered abroad, each not even knowing if the others were still alive. By the providence of God, they were united again after many years, and returned to Rome in glory. Nevertheless, when they refused to sacrifice to the idols-a public sacrifice from which no Roman general could be absent-the Emperor Hadrian, who had succeeded Trajan, had them put into a large bronze device in the shape of a bull, which was heated with fire until they died. When their holy bodies were removed, they were found to be without harm. They suffered martyrdom about the year 126.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

And see how He also makes His discourse unexceptionable: not saying at all, "whether you will, or no, you must suffer this," but how? "If any man will come after me."
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 55 on Matthew 16, 1. B#54, p.339., 4th Century

"I force not, I compel not, but each one I make lord of his own choice; wherefore also I say, 'If any man will.' For to good things do I call you, not to things evil, or burdensome; not to punishment and vengeance, that I should have to compel.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 55 on Matthew 16, 1. B#54, p.339., 4th Century

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Archbishop Elpidophoros Announces New Appointments

09/16/2020

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced four new appointments and assignments at the Archdiocese to coincide with the commencement of the new Ecclesiastical year.
https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-announces-new-appointments-1

Office of Ionian Village Hosts Decades Meeting for Alumni

09/15/2020

Although the Ionian Village Summer Program was cancelled due to COVID-19, many former participants (campers, staff members, former administration, medical volunteers and clergy) were given the opportunity to gather online. Weekly “virtual” reunions were held from mid-July through mid-August. These reunions were organized into decades (1970’s, 80’s,90’s, 2000’s, 2010’s) and were hosted by Fr. Gary Kyriacou, the current Director of Ionian Village.
https://www.goarch.org/-/ionian-village-hosts-alumni-meetings

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

09/15/2020

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA.
https://www.goarch.org/-/elpidophoros-celebrates-exaltation-holy-cross

45th Clergy Laity Congress – First-Ever Virtual - Concludes

09/11/2020

The 45th Clergy Laity Congress, a first-ever virtual event concluded today after a successful Plenary Session. All necessary resolutions for the proper operation and administration of the Archdiocese were effected in an atmosphere of professionalism and Christian brotherhood.
https://www.goarch.org/-/45th-clergy-laity-congress-concludes-2020
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