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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2022-12-04
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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
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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 – Pete Papadimos – Steve Papadimos – Harry D. Proestos

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Ms. Lucy Hatzinikolis in loving memory of her father Nicholas.  May His Memory Be Eternal.

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:    English: Nate Harger      Greek:  Helen Matthews 

THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS OFFERD BY:  Connie Mynihan   Thank You and God Bless You

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR WILL BE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY: After Church, please come over to the Veronie Community Hall for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship.

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, December 5th: Parish Council 6 pm

Tuesday, December 6th:  Saint Nicholas Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am

Wednesday, December 7th: Bible Study 10 am 7pm, Adult Greek School 6 pm via zoom

Thursday, December 8th: Movie Smyrna 7 pm Franklin Park Mall. 

Community Christmas Party!  Our Philoptchos Sponsored Christmas party is next week.  Please get your tickets today!

Greek Kitchen it taken orders for Christmas!  The Greek Kitchen is ready to help you with your Holiday baking.  Please see the order form for more information.    

HOPE and JOY: After Sunday School our Hope and Joy kids will have their Christmas meeting!  We will begin with lunch.

New Pantry Update!  Because of all of your generous donations, our Parish Pantry is thriving! Here is an update of our most needed items: Canned tuna, jelly, and Pop tarts. We are so grateful to all of you that have made monetary, food and hygiene donations. Thank you!

Parish Council Election:  Next Sunday will be our Parish Council elections.  Please make sure you are in good standing in order to vote.    

Gift Drive:  Dear parish family and friends we are doing a gift drive for Advocating opportunity.  Advocating Opportunity provides services for trafficked and exploited persons.  For more information about what is being collected please see the flyer.

Community Vasilopita sponsored by Philoptochos - January 8, 2023. Adults: $15 Children (12 and under) $7 RSVP including payment in full, is due no later than January 4, 2023.   Vasilopita attendance will have a cap of 300 people.  The first reservations paid in full will be honored first.  Unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate walk-ins this year.  If you would like to bake a Vasilopita, please contact Maria Rosales.

DINNER AND DISCUSSION!  Dinner and discussion is being moved to December 8th.  We urge everyone to go see the movie Smyrna which will being playing in Toledo on the 8th.  If anyone is interested Father will be in the food court at 6pm.  After a short dinner we will go to the movie.  For more information, please see the flyer

Warm Hands to Warm Hearts:  Thank you to everyone who has knit or crochet items and has donated yarn.  We have a box in the Bookstore with yarn that you can take, to make 7x9" rectangles or 35x45" Lap Blankets.  You can also leave your finished pieces there.  Our next gathering will be January 31,2023 so keep knitting and crocheting.

Stewardship:  We are close to the end of this year’s Stewardship Campaign.  If you haven’t paid your pledge in full - now is the time.  We need everyone’s support in order to reach our goal of $275,000.   Thank you.  

Bookstore:  The holidays are right around the corner the bookstore has wonderful gifts for the holidays.  If you need an icon please see Marlene she can put them with her orders.

Philoptochos News:  Philoptochos is continuing to strive for all women of our parish to join this dynamic group that supports all the needs of our beloved Holy Trinity. Participation in our activities is flexible and accommodates women’s varying availability and time commitment. Stewardship is being accepted for continuing and new members for 2022. The amount of your stewardship to this organization is your choice, with the average membership steward giving $50.  We are obligated to the first $21 to our National and Metropolis Philoptochos, and the remainder of your donation stays here at our parish and supports our projects in our local community. Payment can be forwarded to Maria Kopan, Membership, and can also be made through PayPal at ToledoPhiloptochos@gmail.com  

Sunday Coffee Hours –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 December and January.  Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR May 29, 2023 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 MEMORIALS:  December 11th – John Tom Christopulos – 1 year; Patricia Bellner – 3 years (Trisagion); December 18th – Mary Markham – 1 year

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    Dinner and Discussion Smyrna the Movie

    Dinner and Discussion Smyrna the Movie

    On December 8th the Dinner and Discussion Ministry will watch the movie Smyrna. All are invited! See the flyer for details.

    Philoptochos Sponsored Christmas Party 2022

    Philoptochos Sponsored Christmas Party 2022

    Please join our Philoptochos as they offer another Christmas party! Please see the flyers for details

    Philoptochos Sponsored Christmas Party Trim a Table

    Philoptochos Sponsored Christmas Party Trim a Table

    Back by popular demand is "Trim a Table". Everyone who Trims a table has chance to wine a $50.00 Gift Card! Please see the flyer for details.

    Angel Tree

    Angel Tree

    We are pleased to offer our community the opportunity to adopt a child for Christmas. Please see the flyer for more information

    Gift Drive

    Gift Drive

    Dear parish family and friends we are doing a gift drive for Advocating opportunity. Advocating Opportunity provides services for trafficked and exploited persons. For more information about what is being collected please see the flyer.

    Young at Heart Christmas

    Young at Heart Christmas

    Young at Heart are having their Christmas party next month. Please see the flyer for more information.

    Greek Kitchen Christmas Order Form

    Greek Kitchen Christmas Order Form

    The Greek Kitchen is ready to help you with your Holiday baking. Please see the order form for more information.

    GOYA Community Christmas Card!

    GOYA Community Christmas Card!

    Next month is Christmas! Please see the flyer for information on becoming part pf this year's community Christmas card.

    Friends of the Metropolis Appeal

    Friends of the Metropolis Appeal

    Friends of the Metropolis Appeal. Please help support the Ministries of the Metropolis. See the flyer for details

    Ukraine Relief Fund

    Ukraine Relief Fund

    Together, the Archdiocese and IOCC aim to raise $1 million for both immediate and long-term support of the Ukrainian people. Please click on the flyer for more information.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Great Martyr Barbara in the Fourth Mode

Let us honour Saint Barbara, for she hath broken the snares of the enemy; and like a sparrow, she, the all-modest maiden, was delivered out of them by the help and weapon of the Cross.

Apolytikion for John of Damascus in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Guide of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and holiness, luminary of the world, God-inspired adornment of monastics, O wise John, by thy teachings thou hast enlightened all, O harp of the Spirit. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Apolytikion of the Church in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fisherman all-wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them, drawing all the world into Your net. O Loving One, glory be to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.
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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 out 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. After this 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. Fourth Mode. Psalm 67.35,26.
God is wonderful among his saints.
Verse: Bless God in the congregations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 3:23-29; 4:1-5.

Brethren, before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate; but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 13:10-17

At that time, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

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Saints and Feasts

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December 04

Barbara the Great Martyr

Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia and lived during the reign of Maximian.

She was the daughter of a certain idolater named Dioscorus. When Barbara came of age, she was enlightened in her pure heart and secretly believed in the Holy Trinity. About this time Dioscorus began building a bath-house; before it was finished he was required to go away to attend to certain matters, and in his absence Barbara directed the workmen to build a third window in addition to the two her Father had commanded. She also inscribed the sign of the Cross with her finger upon the marble of the bath-house, leaving the saving sign cut as deeply into the marble as if it had been done with an iron tool. (When the Synaxarion of Saint Barbara was written, the marble of the bath-house and the cross inscribed by Saint Barbara were still preserved, and many healings were worked there.) When Dioscorus returned, he asked why the third window had been added; Barbara began to declare to him the mystery of the Trinity. Because she refused to renounce her faith, Dioscorus tortured Barbara inhumanely, and after subjecting her to many sufferings he beheaded her with his own hands, in the year 290.

Bowedwoman
December 04

10th Sunday of Luke

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December 04

John the Righteous of Damascus

Saint John was born in Damascus about the year 675, the son of wealthy and pious parents, of the family of Mansur. He was reared together with Saint Cosmas (see Oct. 14), who had been adopted by John's father Sergius, a man of high rank in the service of the Caliph of Damascus. Both of these young men were instructed by a certain monk, also named Cosmas, who had been taken captive in Italy by the Arabs and later ransomed by John's Father. Saint John became a great philosopher and enlightener of the age in which he lived, and was honoured by the Caliph with the dignity of counsellor.

When Emperor Leo the Isaurian (reigned 717-741) began his war on the holy icons, John wrote epistles defending their veneration. Since the Saint, being under the Caliph of Damascus, was beyond Leo's power, the Iconoclast Emperor had a letter forged in John's handwriting which invited Leo to attack Damascus, saying the city guard was then weak; Leo then sent this letter to the Caliph, who in his fury punished John's supposed treason with the severing of his right hand. The Saint obtained the Caliph's Permission to have his severed hand again, and that night prayed fervently to the most holy Theotokos before her icon. She appeared to him in a dream and healed his hand, which, when he awoke, he found to be healed in truth. This Miracle convinced the Caliph of his innocence, and he restored John to his office as counsellor. The Saint, however, with many pleadings obtained his permission to withdraw from the world to become a monk. He assumed the monastic habit in the Monastery of Saint Sabbas. Then he had as elder a very simple and austere monk who commanded him neither to write to anyone, nor to speak of the worldly knowledge he had acquired, and John faithfully obeyed. A monk grieving over his brother's death, however, after insisting vehemently, prevailed upon John to write a funeral hymn to console him for his brother's death. When John's elder learned of his transgression of the rule he had given him, he cast him out of his cell, and would only accept him back after John had humbly, with much self-condemnation and without murmuring consented to clean all the latrines in the lavra. After his elder had received him back, our Lady appeared to the elder and sternly charged him not to hinder John any longer from his writings and composition of hymns.

In his writings he fought courageously against the Iconoclasts Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine Copronymus. He was also the first to write a refutation of Islam. The time he had spent as a counsellor in the courts of the Moslems of Damascus had given him opportunity to learn their teachings at first hand, and he wrote against their errors with a sound understanding of their essence. Saint John was surnamed Chrysorroas ("Golden-stream") because of the eloquence of his rhetorical style and the great abundance of his writings; this name - Chrysorroas was also the name of the river that flows by Damascus. In his writings he set forth the Orthodox Faith with exactness and order. In his old age, after his foster-brother Cosmas had been made Bishop of Maiuma, John also was ordained presbyter by the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Having lived eighty-four years, he reposed in peace in 760. In addition to his theological writings, he adorned the Church of Christ with metrical and prose hymns and composed many of the prosomia used as the models for the melodies of the Church's liturgical chant; he also composed many of the sacred hymns for the feasts of the Lord Saviour and the Theotokos. The life of Saint John of Damascus was written by John, Patriarch of Jerusalem. See also June 28.

Seraphimphanar
December 04

New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar in Greece

Allsaint
December 04

Juliana the Martyr of Heliopolis

Allsaint
December 04

Alexander Hotovitzky, New Hieromartyr of Russia, Missionary to America

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Wisdom of the Fathers

So great an evil is envy. For not against strangers only, but even against our own, is it ever warring.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century

And yet here He speaks only; whereas elsewhere in many cases He heals by laying on of hands also. But nevertheless none of these things made them meek; rather, while the man was healed, they by his health became worse. For His desire indeed was to cure them before him, and He tried innumerable ways of healing, both by what He did in their presence, and by what He said: but since their malady after all was incurable, He proceeded to the work.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 40 on Matthew 12, 4th Century

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