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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2021-08-29
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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




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

Harry D. Proestos – Frank Reder – George Sares

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIAL IS FOR:     Dr. Andreas Nicolaou – 3 years

May His Memory Be Eternal

CHRISMATION FOR: Gabriela Nicolette Nolen Sponsor: Christina and Dean Peratsakis

THIS WEEK'S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY 

PROSFORA OFFFERED TODAY BY:  The Family of Dr. Nicolaou   Thank you and God Bless you.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:  Barbara Veronie (St. Charles) Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

 PARISH PICNIC TODAY AFTER LITURGY!  We hope everyone will stay for lunch, fellowship, and games.  We have a special treat this year, our Hellenic Dance Company will perform!  After Liturgy please make your way to the AHEPA room and get your food.  The Performance will begin once everyone has their lunch

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, August 30th: Syrup making (for Baklava)

Tuesday, August 31st:  Syrup making (for Baklava)

Thursday, September 2nd: AHEPA Meeting (Church) 7 pm Daughters of Penelope (Off Site) 6 pm

TASTE OF GREECE DRIVE THROUGH EVENT – September 10th & 11th.  We’re seeking donations or sponsorship of products needed to help defray expenses. If you are able please consider a donation.  Thank you for your continued support!

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! 

OCMC 2021 Virtual Trek4Missions Update

We now have eleven team members!!!  We thank them for joining and we thank you for helping us with this worthy event.  Last week our team biked, walked, ran, or swam a total of 251 miles!  As you can see our team is working hard to raise awareness about the wonderful work that OCMC does and to help them raise much needed funds. If you have not made a donation and wish to please go to https://secure.ocmc.org/site/TR/Trek4Missions/General?team_id=1221&pg=team&fr_id=1290.  To see the wonderful work OCMC does please visit their website at www.ocmc.org.

Parish Picnic:  We are thrilled to be having our annual church picnic on Sunday August 29th following liturgy. The parish council will be providing hamburgers and hot dogs! Our cooks this year are George Sares, Kyp Proestos, and Mike Zink.  We need your help with other items needed for this family fun filled event. Please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4DA9AA2FA4F58-parish and let us know what you can bring. We will have face painting, water balloons toss, spike ball and much more for all ages. This year the Hellenic Dance company will be performing in costume!  Please come out for fun, fellowship and support for our beloved cathedral.If you have any questions please call Jaime Theodorou 419-297-8340 or January Theodorou Bollin 843-209-8355

AHEPA Memorial Golf Outing – Ypsilanti #118 is hosting a memorial golf outing on Saturday September 18, 2021 at Legacy by Arthur Hills Golf Club in Ottawa Lake, MI.  This year we will be honoring Fr. Chris Hadgigeorge with the proceeds going to Hellenic College Holy Cross and chapter philanthropic funds.  Information on golfer and non-golfer registrations and sponsorships can be found at www.ypsigolfmemorial.com, or contact Tony Capranica – 419-540-1150, Chadd Schwartz – 440-669-6882 or Jim Rongakis – 561-856-0885.

Holy Trinity Pantry Update: Pantry inventory was completed August 4th. The following items are most needed: shelf-stable milk, canned chicken, canned tuna, and canned ham, canned vienna sausages, saltine or Ritz crackers, toilet paper, and bar soap. We gratefully accept all food and monetary donations!

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.

ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS: ***PROSFORA NEEDED FOR THE MONTHS OF September & October.  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- September 5th – Stanley Kakmis – 1 year 

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    OCMC Trek4Missions

    OCMC Trek4Missions

    Join our team for this 40 day fitness challenge to raise money and bring awareness to the work of missions around the world and the work of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center.


    Parish Picnic 2021!

    Parish Picnic 2021!

    Come and join us on August 29th as we celebrate our wonderful Cathedral family. Please click on the flyer for more information.


    AHEPA GOLF Outing

    AHEPA GOLF Outing

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


    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 First Mode

Although the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers guarded Your most pure body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, giving life to the world. For this reason, the heavenly powers cried out to you, O Giver of Life: Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your kingdom! Glory to Your dispensation, only Lover of Mankind!

Apolytikion for Beheading of the Forerunner in the Second Mode

The memory of the just is celebrated with hymns of praise, but the Lord's testimony is sufficient for thee, O Forerunner; for thou hast proved to be truly even more venerable than the Prophets, since thou was granted to baptize in the running waters Him Whom they proclaimed. Wherefore, having contested for the truth, thou didst rejoice to announce the good tidings even to those in Hades: that God hath appeared in the flesh, taking away the sin of the world and granting us great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life."
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Tenth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:1-14

At that time, being raised from the dead, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 63.11,1.
The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord.
Verse: Oh God, hear my cry.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 13:25-33.

IN THOSE DAYS, as John was finishing his course, he said, "What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie." Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him. Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.


Gospel Reading

Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
The Reading is from Mark 6:14-30

At that time, Herod the King heard about the fame of Jesus, for his name had become known. He said, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him." But others said, "It is Elijah." And others said, "It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old." But when Herod heard of it he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised." For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her. For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he was much perplexed; and yet he heard him gladly. But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee. For when Herodias' daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will grant it." And he vowed to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom." And she went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the baptizer." And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb. The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.


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Saints and Feasts

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August 29

Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the God-sent Messenger of the incarnate Messiah, the forerunner of Christ's coming into the world (Esaias 40: 3; Mal. 3: 1); who by many miracles was both conceived and born; who was filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb; who came forth like another Elias the Zealot, whose life in the wilderness and divine zeal for God's Law he imitated: this divine Prophet, after he had preached the baptism of repentance according to God's command; had taught men of low rank and high how they must order their lives; had admonished those whom he baptized and had filled them with the fear of God, teaching them that no one is able to escape the wrath to come if he do not works worthy of repentance; had, through such preaching, prepared their hearts to receive the evangelical teachings of the Savior; and finally, after he had pointed out to the people the very Savior, and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world" (Luke 3:2-18; John 1: 29-36), after all this, John sealed with his own blood the truth of his words and was made a sacred victim for the divine Law at the hands of a transgressor.

This was Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee, the son of Herod the Great. This man had a lawful wife, the daughter of Arethas (or Aretas), the King of Arabia (that is, Arabia Petraea, which had the famous Nabatean stone city of Petra as its capital. This is the Aretas mentioned by Saint Paul in II Cor. 11:32). Without any cause, and against every commandment of the Law, he put her away and took to himself Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, to whom Herodias had borne a daughter, Salome. He would not desist from this unlawful union even when John, the preacher of repentance, the bold and austere accuser of the lawless, censured him and told him, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife" (Mark 6: 18). Thus Herod, besides his other unholy acts, added yet this, that he apprehended John and shut him in prison; and perhaps he would have killed him straightway, had he not feared the people, who had extreme reverence for John. Certainly, in the beginning, he himself had great reverence for this just and holy man. But finally, being pierced with the sting of a mad lust for the woman Herodias, he laid his defiled hands on the teacher of purity on the very day he was celebrating his birthday. When Salome, Herodias' daughter, had danced in order to please him and those who were supping with him, he promised her -- with an oath more foolish than any foolishness -- that he would give her anything she asked, even unto the half of his kingdom. And she, consulting with her mother, straightway asked for the head of John the Baptist in a charger. Hence this transgressor of the Law, preferring his lawless oath above the precepts of the Law, fulfilled this godless promise and filled his loathsome banquet with the blood of the Prophet. So it was that that all-venerable head, revered by the Angels, was given as a prize for an abominable dance, and became the plaything of the dissolute daughter of a debauched mother. As for the body of the divine Baptist, it was taken up by his disciples and placed in a tomb (Mark 6: 21 - 29). Concerning the finding of his holy head, see February 24 and May 25.


Allsaint
August 29

Theodora of Thessaloniki


Allsaint
August 29

Anastasios the New Martyr of Bulgaria


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Archdiocese News

“Faith in Freedom” Video Series: Episode 6

08/26/2021

In honor of the 200th year anniversary of Greek independence, the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, will release a video the 25th of each month as part of the “Faith in Freedom” series.

“How-to” Green Your Parish, Episode 19: Creation Care in Religious Education

08/26/2021

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features V. Rev. Tony Vrame “Creation Care in Religious Education”

Archbishop Elpidophoros Announces New Priest for the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center

08/25/2021

New York, NY – Today, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced his appointment for the new proïstamenos (presiding priest) for the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine: The Reverend Protopresbyter Andreas Vithoulkas, the Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Greece Fires Relief: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Announces Fundraising Update as IOCC begins Needs Assessment

08/25/2021

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese announces that, following the launching of the Greece Fires Relief Fund, and the call of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros for parishes to take a special collection for the effort, that over $750,000 has been raised in order to provide support and long-term assistance to the many individuals and businesses that have suffered as a result of the devastating fires.

The 2021-2022 Ecclesiastical Planner is now Available!

08/21/2021

The 2021-2022 Ecclesiastical Planner is now Available! Use The Planner to keep track of your schedules with a daily focus on Christ. Users will have the daily Scriptural readings, fast days, and saints of the day at their fingertips, The Planner follows the Ecclesiastical (church) year beginning September 1, 2021.
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