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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2022-12-11
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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
Forefathers
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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 - George Sares - Paul Sieben - Matt Simko

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIAL IS FOR:  John Tom Christopulos -1 year   May His Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S TRISAGION IS FOR: Patricia Bellner-3 years May Her Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Michael and Maryanne Condon in loving memory of Alex Tokles.   May His Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:    English: George Sarantou   Greek: Basil Apostolou

THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS OFFERD BY:  The family of John Tom Christopulos

 THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR WILL BE SPONSORED BY: The family of John Tom Christopulos.  May His Memory Be Eternal

TODAY the Philoptochos will pass a Tray for St. Spyridon.  These donations will go to the Metropolis to assist with their ministries.  Thank you for your generosity. 

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, December 12th: St. Spyridon Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am, Philoptochos Board meeting 6pm, Philoptochos general meeting 7:15pm

Tuesday, December 13th:  Young at Heart Christmas party 6 pm Georgios

Wednesday, December 14th: Adult Greek School 6 pm via zoom

Thursday, December 15th: Saint Eleftherios Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am

Friday, December 16th:  Parakelsis 7 pm

Saturday, December17th:  Pageant dress rehearsal

Parish Council election is today after Liturgy in the AHEPA Room.  You must be in good standing to vote.

Greek Kitchen: Today is the last day to get your Greek Kitchen orders in.

GOYA Coffee talk:  Coffee talk is today 4 pm at Sip

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!

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.

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 18th-Mary Markham 1 year-January 22nd-Sophie Paterakis-1 year

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    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.

    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 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 11th Sun. of Luke in the Second Mode

By faith didst Thou justify the Forefathers, when through them Thou didst betroth Thyself aforetime to the Church from among the nations. The Saints boast in glory that from their seed there is a glorious fruit, even she that bare Thee seedlessly. By their prayers, O Christ God, save our souls.

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

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 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 of the Lord Jesus. 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? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into 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. Fourth Mode. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11.

Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.

Gospel Reading

11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 14:16-24

The Lord said this parable: "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.' And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.' And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. For many are called, but few are chosen.'"

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Saints and Feasts

Forefathers
December 11

11th Sunday of Luke

On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the flesh, both those that came before the Law, and those that lived after the giving of the Law.

Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham, to whom the promise was first given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 22:18). This promise was given some two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham was seventy-five years of age. God called him and commanded him to forsake his country, parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed" (Gen. 12:7); for this cause, that land was called the "Promised Land," which later became the country of the Hebrew people, and which is also called Palestine by the historians. There, after the passage of twenty-four years, Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision. In the one hundredth year of his life, when Sarah was in her ninetieth year, they became the parents of Isaac. Having lived 175 years altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elder full of days.

Allsaint
December 11

Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople

This Saint was from the village of Marutha in the region of Samosata in Mesopotamia. He became a monk at the age of twelve. After visiting Saint Symeon the Stylite (see Sept. 1) and receiving his blessing, he was moved with zeal to follow his marvellous way of life. At the age of forty-two, guided by providence, he came to Anaplus in the environs of Constantinople, in the days of the holy Patriarch Anatolius (see July 3), who was also healed by Saint Daniel of very grave malady and sought to have him live near him. Upon coming to Anaplus, Saint Daniel first lived in the church of the Archangel Michael, but after some nine years, Saint Symeon the Stylite appeared to him in a vision, commanding him to imitate his own ascetical struggle upon a pillar. The remaining thirty-three years of his life he stood for varying periods on three pillars, one after another. He stood immovable in all weather, and once his disciples found him covered with ice after a winter storm. He was a counsellor of emperors; the pious emperor Leo the Great fervently loved him and brought his royal guests to meet him. It was at Saint Daniel's word that the holy relics of Saint Symeon the Stylite were brought to Constantinople from Antioch, and it was in his days that the Emperor Leo had the relics of the Three Holy Children brought from Babylon. Saint Daniel also defended the Church against the error of the Eutychians. Having lived through the reigns of the Emperors Leo, Zeno, and Basiliscus, he reposed in 490, at the age of eighty-four.

Allsaint
December 11

Luke the New Stylite of Chalcedon

Allsaint
December 11

Martyrs Acepsius and Aeithalas

Allsaint
December 11

Holy Martyrs Miracus and Barsabas

Allsaint
December 11

Leontios the Righteous of Monemvasia

Allsaint
December 11

The Glorious King Nikephoros Phokas

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Wisdom of the Fathers

What was the nature of the invitation? God the Father has prepared in Christ for the inhabitants of earth those gifts which are bestowed upon the world through Him, even the forgiveness of sins, the cleansing away of all defilement, the communion of the Holy Spirit, the glorious adoption of sons, and the kingdom of the heavens.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Translation courtesy of "The Orthodox New Testament" Volume 1, 4th Century

Come, O faithful, Let us enjoy the Master's hospitality, The banquet of immortality. In the upper chamber with uplifted minds Let us receive the exalted words of the Word Whom we magnify.
Last Ode of the Compline Canon

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