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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2021-07-18
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Parish News
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Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Archdiocese News
Hlyfthrs
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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

  Kathy Chaka  Greg Cook  Dr. Dean Kopan

THIS WEEK'S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: ANONYMOUSLY

PROSFORA OFFFERED TODAY BY:  Connie Mynihan

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:  Gust Elmer (Saint Anne) Perastika and a Speedy Recovery 

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Sunday, July 18th:  2 pm Parents of young children pool party!

Monday, July 19th:  9 am Koulourakia Workshop

Tuesday, July 20th: Prophet Elias 9 am Orthros Divine Liturgy 10 am, 9 am  Paximathia Workshop, Dance practice begins at 6 pm

Wednesday, July 21st: Morning Bible Study 10 am and evening Bible Study pm

ARE YOU CURRENT WITH YOUR STEWARDSHIP OBLIGATION?  We hope you're enjoying your summer so far.  Due to changes in routine and vacation, we would like to remind you that if you haven't paid or pledged, please do so.  We need all your participation to reach our stewardship goal for this year!.. Thank you to everyone who has paid and pledged! 

Sunday Coffee Hours – As we begin to open, we are once again allowed to have Coffee hour.  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. Please let Carole know which Sunday you would like to offer Coffee Hour.

Warm Hand to Warm Hearts, Please keep Knitting & Crocheting thru the Spring and Summer.  We are also looking for donations of yarn. If you see any, at yard or garage sales, we sure could put it to good use.  Thank You.

Holy Trinity Pantry Update:  Greetings from the Holy Trinity Pantry. Our church Pantry continues to serve our neighbors, and we have established a relationship with a few who use our Pantry on a regular basis. The monthly Pantry inventory was completed on July 2nd.  We have received a few very generous monetary donations, as well as food donations. We are very thankful for those parishioners who have donated.  Presently, we need a few items:  shelf-stable milk, boxed dinners like hamburger helper, canned chicken and tuna, liquid hand soap, and deodorant.  As always, all donations are gratefully accepted!

ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS: ***PROSFORA NEEDED FOR THE MONTH OF July August & September. Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR: February 27 2022.  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- July 25th – Bessie Bellas – 6 months; George Bellas – 12 years; Gus Bellas – 13 years; Akrie Bellas – 16 years May their Memories Be Eternal

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    AHEPA GOLF Outing

    AHEPA GOLF Outing

    Support our Local AHEPA in this year's Golf Outing.

    Pan Orthodox Event August 13th

    Pan Orthodox Event August 13th

    This event is for all members of our community. The gathering is on Friday, August 13, 2021, at 6:00 PM at St. Elias. Come and pray with us that the Theotokos may protect and heal you, your family and your loved ones. Dinner, snacks and refreshments for everyone! Bring a side dish, if you can! An ‘Ask Father’ session will held during the dinner

    2021 Taste of Greece Workshop

    2021 Taste of Greece Workshop

    Once again, it is that time of the year to get ready for Workshops. We all need to work together to make Taste of Greece a huge success.

    Covid Update

    Covid Update

    Please read the latest update for Covid 19 Protocols

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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 Sun. of the Holy Fathers 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

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 31.11,1.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous.
Verse: Blessed are they whose transgressions have been forgiven.

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 Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Matthew 5:14-19

The Lord said to his disciples, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

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Saints and Feasts

Hlyfthrs
July 18

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council

On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.

In the Slavic tradition, on this Sunday, the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils are all commemorated.

Emilian
July 18

Holy Martyr Emilian

This Martyr was from Dorostolum in Thrace, the servant of a certain pagan in the days of Julian the Apostate (361-363). As a fervent Christian, Emilian abominated the error of the pagans, and one day entered the temple and broke all the idols with a hammer. Seeing that others were arrested and beaten for this, he gave himself up of his own accord. He was mercilessly whipped, then cast into a fire, in which he gave up his soul without his body suffering harm.

Allsaint
July 18

Holy Martyrs Paul, Thea and Valentine

Allsaint
July 18

Our Holy Father John, Archbishop of Constantinople

Allsaint
July 18

Stephen, Archbishop of Constantinople

Allsaint
July 18

Theneva of Glasgow

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Wisdom of the Fathers

"But whosoever shall do and teach," said He, "shall be called great." For not to ourselves alone, should we be profitable, but to others also; since neither is the reward as great for him who guides himself aright, as for one who with himself adds also another.
St. John Chrysostom
Homilies 15 and 16 on Matthew 5, 4th Century

Since he who cannot teach himself, yet attempts to set others right, will have many to ridicule him. Or rather such a one will have no power to teach at all, his actions uttering their voice against him.
St. John Chrysostom
Homilies 15 and 16 on Matthew 5, 4th Century

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Archdiocese News

Address for the International Religious Freedom Summit, 2021 “The Rising Tide of Religious Nationalism”

07/16/2021

It is a great privilege to be with you today, and I want to express the appreciation of the Greek Orthodox Church of America – a province of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Mother Church of Eastern Christianity – for the exceptional work of the International Religious Freedom Summits. The partner and supporting entities bear witness to the inclusive and the comprehensive nature of the vision for human liberty and freedom of conscience we seek to enhance around the globe.
https://www.goarch.org/-/irf-summit

“How-to” Green Your Parish, Episode 13: Eco-Orthodox: A Personal Initiative

07/15/2021

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Ephemia Nicolakis “Eco-Orthodox: A Personal Initiative.”
https://www.goarch.org/-/greening-parish-13

Stewardship Ministries Announces Stewardship Theme for 2022

07/13/2021

Stewardship Ministries of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has announced the Stewardship Theme for 2022: OUR CHURCH. OUR SPIRITUAL HOME.
https://www.goarch.org/-/stewardship-ministries-2022-theme

Support Our Spiritual Fathers

07/13/2021

This Father’s Day, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America asks that each family contribute $100 to the Pension Plan for the Dedicated Clergymen of our Archdiocese.
https://www.goarch.org/-/fathers-day

Homily for the Third Sunday of Saint Matthew Saint Euphemia the Great-Martyr & Memorial for Those Lost in Invasion of Cyprus

07/11/2021

We come together this morning with a confluence of commemorations, which are by no means accidental. Today, we commemorate Saint Euphemia the Great Martyr, whose Holy Relics revealed the truth of the two natures of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical of Chalcedon.
https://www.goarch.org/-/st-nicholas-flushing-july-2021
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