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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2023-01-01
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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:

Paul Sieben- Drew Cleaver-Debbie Morris

40 DAY BLESSING FOR: Baby Luca born November 16th to parents Eric & Kristina Dionyssiou. May God Continue to Bless Him Always

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Mrs. Penny Perris in loving memory of her mother Paraskevi Sfakianos. May Her Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE: English: Dr. Susan Sieben Greek: Christina Harwood

THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS OFFERD BY: Despina Apostolou & Dr. Susan Sieben
Thank You and God Bless You

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR WILL BE SPONSORED BY: The Legakis family in honor of Vasilia’s name day

CONDOLENCES TO: The family of William Tzanakis whose funeral was this past Thursday. May His Memory Be Eternal.

CONDOLENCES TO: The family of Dora Kokolakis who passed away last week. Visitation is Wednesday from 3-8pm with Trisagion at 7 pm. Funeral is Thursday at 11 am.

May Her Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, January 2nd - Office closed

Thursday, January 5th- Eve of the Epiphany  9am Vesperal Divine Liturgy Lesser Blessing of Waters, Daughters of Penelope 6 pm Black Pearl Restaurant, AHEPA 6 pm via zoom

Friday, January 6th-  Feast of the Epiphany Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am Great Blessing of Waters

Saturday, January 7th-  Feast of St. John the Baptist Orthros 9 am  Divine Liturgy 10 am

Community Vasilopita sponsored by Philoptochos - January 8, 2023. Adults: $16 Children (12 and under) $8 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.

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!

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 January and February.  Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR July 2, 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: January 15th – George Mulopulos - 3 years ; January 22nd-Sophie Paterakis-1 year; February 26th – Jim Veronie-1 year 

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    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.


    Philoptochos Vasilopita!

    Philoptochos Vasilopita!

    The Community Vasilopita is right around the corner! Please see the flyer for details. To get your ticket online go to https://www.holytrinitytoledo.com/vasilopita-2023/


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Circumcision of Jesus Christ in the First Mode

Our human form hast Thou taken on Thyself without change, O greatly-compassionate Master, though being God by nature; fulfilling the Law, Thou willingly receivest circumcision in the flesh, that Thou mightest end the shadow and roll away the veil of our sinful passions. Glory be to Thy goodness unto us. Glory be to Thy compassion. Glory, O Word, to Thine inexpressible condescension.

Apolytikion for Basil the Great in the First Mode

Thy sound hath gone forth into all the earth, which hath received thy word. Thereby thou hast divinely taught the Faith; thou hast made manifest the nature of all things that be; thou hast adorned the ways of man. O namesake of the royal priesthood, our righteous Father Basil, 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

Now the Lord of all that is doth undergo circumcision, in His goodness cutting off the sins and failings of mortals. He this day doth give salvation unto the whole world; and the hierarch and bright daystar of the Creator now rejoiceth in the highest, Basil the wise and divine initiate of Christ.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Seventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:1-10

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him." Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin, which had been on His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that He must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 48.3,1.
My mouth shall speak wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.
Verse: Hear this all you nations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 2:8-12.

BRETHREN, see to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.


Gospel Reading

Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
The Reading is from Luke 2:20-21, 40-52

At that time, the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom; and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances; and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. After three days, they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.


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Saints and Feasts

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January 01

Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Since the Mosaic Law commands that if a woman give birth to a male child, he should be circumcised in the foreskin of his flesh on the eighth day (Lev. 12:2-3), on this, the eighth day from His Nativity, our Saviour accepted the circumcision commanded by the Law. According to the command of the Angel, He received the Name which is above every name: JESUS, which means "Saviour" (Matt. 1:21; Luke 1:31 and 2:21).


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January 01

Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia

Saint Basil the Great was born about the end of the year 329 in Caesarea of Cappadocia, to a family renowned for their learning and holiness. His parents' names were Basil and Emily. His mother Emily (commemorated July 19) and his grandmother Macrina (Jan. 14) are Saints of the Church, together with all his brothers and sisters: Macrina, his elder sister (July 19), Gregory of Nyssa (Jan. 10), Peter of Sebastia (Jan. 9), and Naucratius. Basil studied in Constantnople under the sophist Libanius, then in Athens, where also he formed a friendship with the young Gregory, a fellow Cappadocian, later called "the Theologian." Through the good influence of his sister Macrina (see July 19), he chose to embrace the ascetical life, abandoning his worldly career. He visited the monks in Egypt, in Palestine, in Syria, and in Mesopotamia, and upon returning to Caesarea, he departed to a hermitage on the Iris River in Pontus, not far from Annesi, where his mother and his sister Macrina were already treading the path of the ascetical life; here he also wrote his ascetical homilies.

About the year 370, when the bishop of his country reposed, he was elected to succeed to his throne and was entrusted with the Church of Christ, which he tended for eight years, living in voluntary poverty and strict asceticism, having no other care than to defend holy Orthodoxy as a worthy successor of the Apostles. The Emperor Valens, and Modestus, the Eparch of the East, who were of one mind with the Arians, tried with threats of exile and of torments to bend the Saint to their own confession, because he was the bastion of Orthodoxy in all Cappadocia, and preserved it from heresy when Arianism was at its strongest. But he set all their malice at nought, and in his willingness to give himself up to every suffering for the sake of the Faith, showed himself to be a martyr by volition. Modestus, amazed at Basil's fearlessness in his presence, said that no one had ever so spoken to him. "Perhaps," answered the Saint, "you have never met a bishop before." The Emperor Valens himself was almost won over by Basil's dignity and wisdom. When Valens' son fell gravely sick, he asked Saint Basil to pray for him. The Saint promised that his son would be restated if Valens agreed to have him baptized by the Orthodox; Valens agreed, Basil prayed, and the son was restored. But afterwards the Emperor had him baptized by Arians, and the child died soon after. Later, Valens, persuaded by his counsellors, decided to send the Saint into exile because he would not accept the Arians into communion; but his pen broke when he was signing the edict of banishment. He tried a second time and a third, but the same thing happened, so that the Emperor was filled with dread, and tore up the document, and Basil was not banished. The truly great Basil, spent with extreme ascetical practices and continual labours, at the helm of the church, departed to the Lord on the 1st of January, in 379. at the age of forty-nine.

His writings are replete with wisdom and erudition, and rich are these gifts he set forth the doctrines concerning the mysteries both of the creation (see his Hexaemeron) and of the Holy Trinity (see On the Holy Spirit). Because of the majesty and keenness of his eloquence, he is honoured as "the revealer of heavenly things" and "the Great."

Saint Basil is also celebrated on January 30th with Saint Gregory the Theologian and Saint John Chrysostom.

Rest from labour.


Allsaint
January 01

Emmelia, Mother of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Makrina, and Peter of Sebaste


Allsaint
January 01

Gregory, Bishop of Nanzianzos, Father of Gregory the Theologian


Allsaint
January 01

Peter the New Martyr of the Peloponnesos


Allsaint
January 01

Theodotos the Martyr


Allsaint
January 01

Righteous Theodosios of Triglia


Allsaint
January 01

Telemachos the Martyr


Allsaint
January 01

Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe


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Wisdom of the Fathers

The Ancient of Days, who in times past gave Moses the Law on Sinai, appears this day as a babe. As Maker of the Law He fulfills the Law, and according to the Law He is brought into the temple and given over to the Elder.
Anatolios
Festal Menaion. Great Vespers.

The God of all goodness Did not disdain to be circumcised. He offered Himself as a saving sign And exmple for us all. He fulfilled the words of the prophets concerning Himself. He holds the world in His hands, Yet is bound in swaddling clothes. Let us glorify Him.
Vespers of the feast of the Lord's Circumcision
Translation found in "The Winter Pascha" by Fr. Thomas Hopko SVS Press

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