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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2021-10-03
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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
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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

Kypros Proestos – Frank Reder – George Sares 

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY:   Frank & Kristine Reder in honor of their 26th Wedding Anniversary which was September 30th.  May God Continue to Bless Them Always.

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY:  Our Holy Trinity Choir in honor of Choir Sunday.  Please join them for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship after Divine Liturgy in the Community Center. 

EPISTLE READERS ARE:   English:  Soteria Houlles     Greek:  Helen Matthews

Today is National Music Ministry Sunday.  It is a day we celebrate and thank all those who offer their talents singing and praising God in the Archdiocese.  We especially thank and celebrate all of our parishioners who sing in the choir and chant in our beloved cathedral.  There will be a tray passed in honor of Music Ministry Sunday.

Thank you to everyone who wore pink today in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:            

Sunday, October 3rd:  Hope and Joy kick off Lunch in AHEPA room

Monday, October 4th:  Parish Council 6pm

Tuesday, October 5th:  Orthodox 101 6 pm                     

Wednesday, October 6th - Bible Study 10 am and 7pm, Adult Greek School begins 6pm

Thursday, October 7th -  AHEPA 7 pm

Attention parents! If your son age 8 to 18 is interested in serving in the Altar please visit www.holytrinitytoledo.com/altar-boys/ to register for the Altar. Father Larry will send out a schedule for the Altar boys.

Hope and Joy Kick-Off is today! We will meet after Sunday School for Lunch in the AHEPA and we carpool to Erie Orchard.

The walk to end Alzheimer’s is happening!!! Please join our team, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community, to help raise funds and awareness for a breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.  Join our team and donate to this event at https://act.alz.org.  The walk will be Saturday, October 9th, 2021 at Promenade Park 400 Water St. Toledo, OH 43604.  The event begins at the Promise Garden & Display Area at 9 a.m.  There will be a Ceremony at 10 a.m. and the walk starts at 10:15 a.m.

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: We had our first gathering on Tuesday, September 28th.  Thank you to those who came out!  If anyone would like to learn how to Knit & Crochet and those that know how to Knit & Crochet, you are welcome to come on the last Tuesday of the month, in the Church Hall 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 have 3 months remaining in this year's campaign.  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 October & November.  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 Second Mode

Angelic powers were above Thy tomb, and they that guarded Thee became as dead. And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate Body. Thou hast despoiled Hades and wast not tried thereby. Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life. O Thou Who didst arise from the dead, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Dionysios the Areopagite in the Fourth Mode

Since thou hadst been instructed in uprightness thoroughly and wast vigilant in all things, thou wast clothed with a good conscience as befitteth one holy. Thou didst draw from the Chosen Vessel ineffable mysteries; and having kept the Faith, thou didst finish a like course, O Hieromartyr Dionysios. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

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 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15.

Brethren, it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

Gospel Reading

2nd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 6:31-36

The Lord said, "As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful."

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Saints and Feasts

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October 03

2nd Sunday of Luke

Allsaint
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Rusticus and Eleutherios the Martyrs

Allsaint
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John the Chozebite, Bishop of Caesaria

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Dionysios the Areopagite

This Saint was from Athens, a learned man, and a member of the famous judicial court of Mars Hill (in Greek Aeros Pagos, hence the name Areopagite (see Acts 17:19-34). When Saint Paul preached in Athens, he was one of the first there to believe in Christ, and, according to some, became the first bishop of that city. Others say -- and this may be more probable--that he was the second Bishop of Athens, after Saint Hierotheus, whom Dionysios calls his friend and teacher "after Paul" (On the Divine Names, 3:2). With Saint Hierotheus he was also present at the Dormition of the most holy Theotokos; the Doxasticon of the Aposticha for the service of the Dormition is partly taken from a passage in Chapter III of On the Divine Names. According to ancient tradition, he received a martyr's end (according to some, in Athens itself) about the year 96.

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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.

Let us then, bearing in mind all the things which have been said, show forth great love even towards our enemies; and let us ease away that ridiculous custom, to which many of the more thoughtless give way, waiting for those that meet them to address them first.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 18 on Matthew 5, 4th Century

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Archdiocese News

“How-to” Green Your Parish, Episode 24: Learning from our Parishes - St. Seraphim, CA

09/30/2021

This week’s “How-to” Green Your Parish episode features Fr. Lawerence Margitich “Learning from our Parishes - St. Seraphim, CA”
https://www.goarch.org/-/green-your-parish-24

Visit of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States

09/29/2021

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will welcome His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States for an official visit which will begin on October 23, 2021 and continue through November 3, 2021. The visit, originally scheduled for May 2020, was postponed due to the worldwide pandemic. This is the third official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States.
https://www.goarch.org/-/2021-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-visit

Holy Trinity Church in New Rochelle Holds Festival

09/24/2021

There was no need to travel all the way to the Aegean this past weekend to experience Greek hospitality, culture, and food. Locals only had to attend the long-awaited return of the annual Greek Festival hosted by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of New Rochelle.
https://www.goarch.org/-/holy-trinity-new-rochelle-festival-2021

“Faith in Freedom” Video Series: Episode 7 featuring Homi D Gandhi

09/24/2021

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. This series features the voices of various religious leaders speaking about the meaning of freedom in their faith tradition.
https://www.goarch.org/-/faith-in-freedom-7

“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
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