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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2020-10-25
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Saints and Feasts
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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

Steve Jenkins – Dr. Dean Kopan – Debbie Morris

TODAY’S MEMORIAL SERVICE IS FOR: Pauline (Photos) Kambour – 6 months
TRISAGION PRAYERS FOR: Konstantinos Tsapranis – 6 months May Their Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Mr. Thomas Photos in loving memory of his aunt Pauline Photos Kambour. May Her Memory Be Eternal

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

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK: Katherine Resch (Flower)
Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

Today is National Leadership 100 Sunday. We thank Dr. Gerald J. Biernacki, Mrs. Pauline Biernacki and Mr. Terry Perris who are members of the Leadership 100. We are grateful for the work this ministry offers the Archdiocese.

OXI Day Celebration today after Liturgy in Church

Today after Church GOYA is hosting a HOPE & JOY Trunk or Treat! This event is open for all our kids! This is a fun event where the kids go Trick or Treating out of the Trunk of a car!

OUTDOOR COFFEE HOUR TODAY Sponsored by the Dawn Anagnos and the Greek School families (Weather permitting) after Church.

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY All meetings are On line:
Monday, October 26th- St. Demetrios Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am

Wednesday, October 28th- Bible Study 10 am and 7 pm
Adult Greek School via Zoom

PARISH ASSEMBLY: Postponed until November 8th

Greek Kitchen is back! Holidays are just around the corner, order your favorite items; Baklava, Chocolate Baklava, Spanakopita, Tiropita, and Galatobouriko. Please complete your order form as soon as possible. Information details and how to order are on the order forms which have been included. All proceeds are for Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral.  Many customers wanted more dolmathes at the Taste of Greece, so the Daughters of Penelope are making dolmathes for their fall fundraiser. Details and order forms are included.

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!

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: John E. Melas – 10 years December 13th May His Memory Be Eternal

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius 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 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

Ninth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:19-31

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them: "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him: "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them: "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe."

Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said: "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Third Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 1:11-19.

Brethren, I would have you know that the gospel which was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.

Gospel Reading

6th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 8:26-39

At that time, as Jesus arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he had worn no clothes and he lived not in a house but among the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me." For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him; he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the desert.) Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him. And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. When the herdsmen saw what happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear; so he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but he sent him away, saying, "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

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Saints and Feasts

Gadarene
October 25

6th Sunday of Luke

Allsaint
October 25

Martyr Chrysanthe

Allsaint
October 25

The Holy Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius the Notaries

These Martyrs were disciples of Saint Paul the Confessor (see Nov. 6). Martyrius was a subdeacon, Marcian a chanter and reader. They were beheaded by the Arians in the year 346. Miracles were wrought at their tomb, and demons were cast out; Saint John Chrysostom began the building of the church in their honour in Constantinople, and it was completed by patriarch Sisinius.

Tabitha
October 25

Tabitha, who was raised from the dead by Peter the Apostle

Allsaint
October 25

Chrysaphios (or Chrysaphos) the Martyr

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Wisdom of the Fathers

For if we, going about on the earth which is familiar and well known to us, being encompassed with a body, when we are journeying in a strange road, know not which way to go unless we have some one to lead us; how should the soul, being rent away from the body, and having gone out from all her accustomed region, know where to walk without one to show her the way?
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century

Some say, 'Why do they [demons] possess people?' I answer those who wish to have this explained that the reason of these things is very deep. Somewhere one of His saints addressed God by saying, 'Your judgments are a vast abyss.' As long as we bear this in mind, we will perhaps not miss the mark.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on Luke, Homily 44. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture; vol 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Archbishop Elpidophoros Announces Appointments to the 2020-2022 Archdiocesan Council

10/21/2020

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has today announced his appointments to the 2020-2022 Archdiocesan Council.
https://www.goarch.org/-/2020-2022-archdiocesan-council

Archbishop Elpidophoros Appoints the National Philoptochos 2020-2022 Executive Board

10/19/2020

Today, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America in his capacity as Chairman of the Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society announced the appointment of the Executive Board Members for the 2020-2022 term.
https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-appoints-the-national-philoptochos-2020-2022-executive-board

Archbishop Elpidophoros Completes Visits to All Parishes, Chapels and Monasteries Within the Archdiocesan District

10/19/2020

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Ss. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Silver Spring, MD. With this visit the Archbishop has been to all of the parishes, chapels and monastic communities located within the Archdiocesan District, which comprises the states of New York, Connecticut, Maryland, the District of Columbia and also the Bahamas.
https://www.goarch.org/-/elpidophoros-visits-all-2020

Panos Coufos Interviews With the Orthodox Observer on MBC's 2020 Fall Camp

10/19/2020

The Orthodox Observer sat down with the recently appointed Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries for the Metropolis of Boston, Panos Coufos, about the Metropolis of Boston's Fall Camp programming in 2020 amid Covid-19.
https://www.goarch.org/-/mbc-fall-camp-2020

Tornado Hits Ionian Village

10/16/2020

Ionian Village, the Archdiocese’s summer camp site in the northwestern Peloponnese, sustained damage on Monday, October 13, 2020. A tornado ripped through the facility, causing most significant damage to the cafeteria (“Trap”) and the pool. Several trees behind the cabins were uprooted and launched hundreds of feet. No one was on site during the tornado, and no one was injured.
https://www.goarch.org/-/tornado-iv-2020

WABC Radio To Air Live With The Louhs

10/15/2020

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Louh and his wife, Dr. Roxanne Louh, as the hosts of a new radio program of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese on 77WABC Talk Radio. The program, Live with the Louhs will broadcast each week beginning Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 6:00am ET in the NY Metro area.
https://www.goarch.org/-/louh-podcast-2020
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