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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2021-09-26
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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
Johntheo
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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

Debbie Morris – Steve Papadimos – Harry D. Proestos

TRISAGION PRAYERS FOR:  Melpomeni Vourvoulia – 6 months  May Her Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Denny & Kathy Lawrence in honor of Kathy’s 70th birthday.  May God Continue to Bless Her Always

PROSFORA OFFFERED TODAY BY:  Helen Matthews in loving memory of her sister Melpomeni.  May Her Memory Be Eternal

COFFEE HOUR SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY

EPISTLE READERS ARE:   English:  Vasila Legakis     Greek:  Bill Plomaritis.

 THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:            

Tuesday, September 28th – Warm Hand to Warm Hearts 7pm                 

Wednesday, September 29th- Bible Study 10 am No evening bible study 7pm, Adult Greek School begins 6pm

Thursday, September 30th-  Parents of Young Children 6:30 pm Village Inn

GOYA Kick-Off Today!!! We will meet at Flietz Farm 7133 Seaman Rd, Oregon, OH 43616 at 4:30pm.  Dinner will be at Jim and Pam Martin's home after the Farm. 4304 Morning Dove Dr. Oregon.  Please bring a side dish to share!

Cookbook Committee: The Cookbook committee will be raffling a large basket filled with various Greek snacks, wines, an apron, and 2 of our cookbooks.  The raffle will be on Sunday, Oct. 24th and ticket sales will begin Sunday, Oct. 3rd during coffee hour.  The cost will be $5 each ticket or 5 for $20.  The basket being raffled on the 24th will be available for you to look at during ticket sales.

Pantry Update:  The Holy Trinity Pantry has had so many generous donations!  We also have had many neighbors in need of food assistance.  We are so grateful to all of you who have made donations. At this time, the following items are most needed: Cereal, jelly, hearty soups and chili, canned meals like beefaroni and spaghettios, canned chicken, tuna and ham. Thank you.

Warm Hand to Warm Hearts:  Our First Gathering of those who want to learn how to Knit & Crochet and those that know how to Knit & Crochet.  We will be meeting the last Tuesday of the month, in the Church Hall. Starting September 28, 2021, at 7 p.m.  Bring with you a size 8 or 9 pair of Knitting needles and size K or 6.50 Crochet hook.  Yarn and directions will be provided. Come no matter whether you know how to or are advanced yarners. We will have a good time together helping one another. For questions Dorothy Yakumithis 419-867-0734 or Phyllis Manton 419-290-2527.

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.

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: April 3rd and 10th.  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 10th George A. Dedes – 40 Days-October 17th – Roger Worley 1 year

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Mode

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Translation of John the Theologian in the Second Mode

O Apostle, beloved of Christ our God, hasten to deliver a defenceless people. He that allowed thee to recline on His breast, receiveth thee bowing in intercession. Implore Him, O Theologian, to dispel the persistent cloud of the heathen, and ask for us His peace and great mercy.

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

Third Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:9-20

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 18.4,1.
Their voice has gone out into all the earth.
Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God.

The reading is from St. John's First Universal Letter 4:12-19.

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because he first loved us.

Gospel Reading

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian
The Reading is from John 19:25-27; 21:24-25

At that time, standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

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Saints and Feasts

Johntheo
September 26

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian

This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple of Christ. Only he of all the Disciples followed Him even to the Cross, and was entrusted with the care of our Saviour's Mother, as it were another son to her, and a brother of Christ the Teacher. After this, he preached throughout Asia Minor, especially in Ephesus. When the second persecution against the Christians began in the year 96 during the reign of Domitian, he was taken in bonds to Rome, and there was cast into a vat filled to the brim with boiling oil. Coming forth therefrom unharmed, he was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Returning again to Ephesus after the death of the tyrant, he wrote his Gospel (after the other Evangelists had already written theirs) and his three Catholic Epistles. In all, he lived ninety-five years and fell asleep in the Lord during the reign of Trajan in the year 100. He was called Theologian because he loftily expounded in his Gospel the theology of the inexpressible and eternal birth of the Son and Word of God the Father. It is for this cause that an eagle-a symbol of the Holy Spirit, as Saint Irenaeus says-is depicted in his icon, for this was one of the four symbolic living creatures that the Prophet Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:10).

Allsaint
September 26

Removal of the Honorable Head of Apostle Andrew the First-Called

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Wisdom of the Fathers

The sign that thou lovest God, is this, that thou lovest thy fellow; and if thou hatest thy fellow, thy hatred is towards God. For it is blasphemy if thou prayest before God while thou art wroth. For thy heart also convicts thee, that in vain thou multipliest words: thy conscience rightly judges that in thy prayers thou profitest nought.
St. Ephraim the Syrian
ON ADMONITION AND REPENTANCE.

'God is love', and he who seeks to establish its bounds is like a blind man attempting to count the grains of sand in the deeps of the sea. In quality, love is the likeness of God, as far as this is possible to mortals; in action, it is intoxication of the soul; in its properties, it is the source of faith, the abyss of long-suffering, the sea of humility. Love is real renunciation of every contrary thought, for it 'thinketh no evil' (I Cor. 13:5). Love, passionlessness and sonship differ only in name. As light, fire and flame are combined in one single action, so it is with these three.
Monks Callistus and Ignatius
Directions to Hesychasts no. 90, Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart; Faber and Faber pg. 257

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Archdiocese News

“How-to” Green Your Parish, Episode 23: Greening your Parish – Creating a Parish Guide

09/24/2021

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Franchescha Duval “Greening your Parish – Creating a Parish Guide”:
https://www.goarch.org/-/greening-your-parish-23

Teaching Children About 1821 Using New Technologies: “Learning, Creating and playing in the digital world"

09/21/2021

The Department of Greek Education will be offering a webinar Saturday September 25, 2021 1:00 pm EST. The webinar is presented by, The Museum of School Life and Education (Μουσείο Σχολικής Ζωής και Εκπαίδευσης)
https://www.goarch.org/-/greek-education-new-technologies

District Greek Language Programs Receive New Tech Devices and Software from the Office of Greek Education

09/21/2021

The Office of Greek Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, with the generosity of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, was able to purchase Chromebooks, projectors, and Interactive Panels for the District Language programs.
https://www.goarch.org/-/greek-education-tech

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Meets with AHEPA Supreme President

09/17/2021

Archbishop Elpidophoros Meets with New AHEPA Supreme President Mr. Jimmy Kokotas and the Executive Director of AHEPA Mr. Basil Mossaidis at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in New York City.
https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidiophoros-ahepa-2021

Archbishop Elpidophoros Offers Agiasmo at Greek-American Institute

09/17/2021

Archbishop Elpidophoros offers Agiasmo for the Greek-American Institue of Zoodohos Peghe Church in the Bronx for the beginning of the school year.
https://www.goarch.org/-/agiasmo-greek-american-institute

Communique of the Holy Eparchial Synod

09/17/2021

On Thursday, September 16, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened a regular meeting of the Holy Eparchial Synod via video conference, in order to deliberate on significant matters that affect the Archdiocese of America.
https://www.goarch.org/-/holy-eparchial-synod-ccmmunique
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