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Publish Date: 2020-10-11
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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

Paul Sieben – Maria Tzanakis – Emmanuel T. Yakumithis 

40-DAY BLESSING FOR: Baby Enzo Berardinelli born September 3, 2020 to parents Anthony and Stephanie Berardinelli.  May God Continue to Bless Him Always

TODAY’S MEMORIAL SERVICE IS FOR:  Stanley D. Kakmis – 40 Days  May His Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: The Eustace Tokles Family in loving memory of Eustace.  May His Memory Be Eternal

The Prosfora, Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered this week by the Kakmis family and Dawn Anagnos.  Thank You and God Bless You

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:  Kathy Andros  (Flower) Tony Arvanitis (Toledo)  Perastika and a Speedy Recovery  

OUTDOOR COFFEE HOUR TODAY (Weather permitting) after Church.

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY All meetings are On line:

Sunday, October 11th-      GOYA Bj’s pumpkin farm 4 pm

                                      Book Club via zoom 7 pm                                               

Monday, October 12th-      St. Symeon-Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am

Wednesday, October 14th- Bible Study 10 am and 7pm

                                       Adult Greek School via Zoom

Thursday, October 15th-    HOPE and JOY Gust Brother's Pumpkin Farm 5:30 pm

Friday, October 16th-         Paraklesis 7 pm 

Sunday School:  Is today!  We would ask all children, teachers, and parents if they like to be stay after Antidoro for a short lesson. 

PARISH ASSEMBLY:  October 18th is the parish assembly.  Information has been mailed.  Please remember you must be in good standing in order to vote.

UP-COMING OCTOBER WEEKDAYCHURCH SERVICES: St. Symeon - October 12th 9:00 am St. James - October 23rd 9:00 am; St. Demetrios - October 26th 9:00 am

Greek Kitchen:  Greek Kitchen is back!  Please see order forms for more information. 

The Holy Trinity Pantry Ministry that was initiated last Spring by Daughters of Penelope and Philoptochos is thriving and in need of donations from our parishioners!  We will happily accept any nonperishable food items and hygiene items, but at this time, the following items are most needed: shampoo, conditioner, feminine products, canned meals (ravioli, stews, chili), canned meat, and breakfast foods. You may donate in the marked collection bin in the church entrance, or by calling the office ahead and then dropping your donation at the community building. Thank you for making the Pantry a great success!

GYRO to GO… The AHEPA and Daughters are selling gyros to go on Friday October 23, 2020 from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm.  Only drive thru is available.  Gyro and fries - $12.00, Veggie Pita and fries - $10.00, 2 pieces of baklava - $5.00.  Pass it on to your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.  If you are available to help out serving please contact Tony Capranica – 419-540-1150 or JoAnn Cook – 419-944-5517.

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. 

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 time you may take off your mask is when you receive communion. 

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

ALTAR FLOWERSD ARE NEEDED FOR January 24th 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:  October 25th - Pauline (Photos) Kambour – 6 months   Konstantine Tsapranis – 6 months     May Their Memory Be Eternal

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode

When the stone had been sealed by the Jews and the soldiers were guarding Thine immaculate Body, Thou didst arise on the third day, O Saviour, granting life unto the world. Wherefore, the powers of the Heavens cried out to Thee, O Lifegiver: Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ. Glory to Thy Kingdom. Glory to Thy dispensation, O only Friend of man.

Apolytikion for Sun. of the 7th Ecumenical Council in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Most glorified art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast established our Fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, and through them didst guide us all to the true Faith. O Most Merciful One, glory be to Thee.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Seventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:1-10

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.

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 Titus 3:8-15.

Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.

All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Luke 8:5-15

The Lord said this parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold." And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience." As he said these things, he cried out "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
October 11

Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council

On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the Service to the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius and during the reign of the Empress Irene and her son, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to refute the Iconoclast heresy, which had received imperial support beginning with the Edict issued in 726 by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Many of the holy Fathers who condemned Iconoclasm at this holy Council later died as Confessors and Martyrs for the holy Icons during the second assult of Iconoclasm in the ninth century, especially during the reigns of Leo the Armenian and Theophilus.

Allsaint
October 11

Nectarios, Arsakios, Sisinios and Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarchs of Constantinople

Philipap
October 11

Philip the Apostle of the 70, one of the 7 Deacons

Saint Philip, who had four daughters that prophesied, was from Caesarea of Palestine. He preached throughout Samaria; it was he also who met the eunuch of Candace, the Queen of the Ethiopians, as the eunuch was reading the Prophet Esaias, and he instructed and baptized him (Acts 8:26-39). He reposed in Tralles of Asia Minor while preaching the Gospel.

Allsaint
October 11

Theophanes the Confessor, Bishop of Nicaea

Saint Theophanes, the brother of Saint Theodore the Branded, was a Palestinian by race. Both were monks at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas. They were called "the Branded" because Theophilus, the last of the Iconoclast emperors, had twelve iambic verses branded by hot irons on their foreheads and then sent them into exile, where Theodore died in the year 838. After the death of Theophilus in 842, Theophanes was elected Bishop of Nicaea. Both brothers composed many canons and hymns, thereby adorning the services of the Church.

Allsaint
October 11

Holy Martyrs Zenais and Philonilla

Allsaint
October 11

Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking

Allsaint
October 11

Kenneth

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Wisdom of the Fathers

For by seed here He means His doctrine, and by land, the souls of men, and by the sower, Himself .... For as the sower makes no distinction in the land submitted to him, but simply and indifferently casts his seed; so He Himself too makes no distinction of rich and poor, of wise and unwise, of slothful or diligent, of brave or cowardly; but He discourses unto all, fulfilling His part, although foreknowing the results.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 44 on Matthew 12, 4th Century

When you see life's pleasures, beware that they might not distract you, for they conceal death's snares. Likewise a fisherman casts not his hook to no purpose. As bait for his hook, the enemy uses the delusion of sensuality to arouse desire, that he might thereby catch men's souls and subject them to himself. A soul which has been caught to serve the enemy's will then serves as a snare for other souls, for it conceals the grief of sin with its apparent delight.
St. Ephraim the Syrian
A Spiritual Psalter no 43, pg. 74, 4th century

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

The Mother Church Offers a New Vision to the Archdiocese of America

10/09/2020

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, wanting to strengthen the role of the largest Eparchy of the Mother Church with a new vision and a new Charter suitable for the evolving and changing modern pastoral needs of American society, decided to place the current Charter (2003) of the Holy Archdiocese of America into abeyance.
https://www.goarch.org/-/new-vision-2020

Cassandra Garibaldi Appointed New Director of the Metropolitan’s Office and Religious Education for the Metropolis of Boston

10/08/2020

His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios announced the appointment of Cassandra Garibaldi as the new Director of the Metropolitan’s Office and Religious Education effective October 1.
https://www.goarch.org/-/cassandra-garibaldi-appointed-new-director-of-the-metropolitan-s-office-and-religious-education-for-the-metropolis-of-boston

An Ecumenical Reading & Conversation on For the Life of the World

10/07/2020

Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute has published their most recent issue of Ecumenical Trends with a focus on the vital document of For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church. The issue features articles by two Orthodox Christians, Rev. Dr. Nicolas Kazarian and Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost, in addition to ecumenical responses from distinguished ecumenical partners.
https://www.goarch.org/-/reading-conversation-life-of-the-world

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Keynote Address, The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the USA

10/06/2020

I greet all of you, Holy Brothers, with these encouraging words of the Apostle, for we have so very much to be joyful for. I am particularly happy to be with all of you – my brothers in the ministry to the Lord and His Holy Church.
https://www.goarch.org/-/his-eminence-archbishop-elpidophoros-keynote-address-the-assembly-of-canonical-orthodox-bishops-in-the-usa-zoom-video-conference

Racial Reconciliation: New Interviews & Resources

10/06/2020

The Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has produced three new episodes of its miniseries “A Conversation on Racial Reconciliation,” with Archdeacon John Chryssavgis. The new interviews aim to contribute to the ongoing conversation, in the Church and across the nation, on racism and offer a resource center.
https://www.goarch.org/-/racial-reconciliation-new-2020

Biographies of New Auxiliary Bishops-Elect

10/06/2020

Biographies of New Auxiliary Bishops-Elect
https://www.goarch.org/-/new-bishop-elect-2020

Metropolis of San Francisco Offers Support to Victims as Fires Continue to Burn

10/05/2020

This year the state of California has sadly reached a devastating milestone of 4 million acres burned, with at least two months remaining in the fire season. The previous record was nearly 1.7 million acres during the fires in 2018. Over the past several weeks, the Metropolis has learned of 19 families who have faced significant loss as a result of the fires in California, Oregon and Washington.
https://www.goarch.org/-/sf-fires-support-2020

An Ecumenical Reading & Conversation on "For the Life of the World"

10/05/2020

Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute has published their most recent issue of Ecumenical Trends with a focus on the vital document of For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church. The issue features articles by two Orthodox Christians, Rev. Dr. Nicolas Kazarian and Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost, in addition to ecumenical responses from distinguished ecumenical partners.
https://www.goarch.org/-/ecumenical-reading-conversation-2020
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