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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:

All Parish Council Members Ushering Today

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY

THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS OFFERED BY: Presvytera Ann Hadgigeorge for Holy Thursday. Christina Temple, Dr. Susan Sieben & Connie Mynihan. Thank you and God Bless you.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK: Ann Mulopulos (Toledo) Gust Elmer (St. Anne) Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

Condolences to the family of Andrew Sares of Florida who passed away this past week and whose funeral is Monday, April 17th 1:00 pm at Reeb Funeral Home in Sylvania. May His Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Sunday, April 16^th: AGAPE Vespers noon

Monday, April 17^th: Philoptochos meeting Blarney downtown at 6:45 PM

Thursday, April 20^th: Young at Heart 6 pm

Young at Heart Lancaster trip: Please, submit your $75 deposit for the Lancaster, Moses trip by May 21, 2023. Total cost of the trip is $545 with the final payment due by July 21, 2023. The trip is October 2nd to October 5th which includes a visit to Gettysburg National Park. All checks are to be made payable to 'Young at Heart' and can be given to Faye, Gene, or Kris. Thank you.

1ST ANNUAL DAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE CHILI COOK-OFF – Sunday, April 23rd. For more information or to register as a chef, call or text Lori Kamilaris at 419-356-3255 or email: loriakamil@yahoo.com $10 for 10 samples to vote on. Proceeds go to the Daughters of Penelope Scholarship Fund.

Food Pantry: Our Pantry ministry has been a great success thanks to the generous donations from our parishioners. The Pantry is now doing distributions three out of the four weeks each month, We really need your donations. Please consider supporting this greatly-needed community ministry. This month, our most needed items are: canned chicken and tuna, pancake syrup and canned fruit. As always we gratefully accept monetary donations. Thank you!

Update on Father Angelo and how you can help: As many of you know Father Angelo was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He continues to receive treatments. We have been informed that a savings account has been setup for him and his family. If you are interested in donating please make checks payable to National Financial Services. Please note: Fr. Angelo or Artemas in the Memo. Please mail your donation to Pinnacle Financial 570 Lake Cook Road, Suite #128 Deerfield IL 60015. Please keep Father and family and in your prayers.

STEWARDSHIP: The first quarter of our 2023 Stewardship Campaign is over and we still are missing a lot of pledges. To all of you who have submitted your commitment card, we thank you. To those of you who haven’t, please do so. We need everyone’s support to reach our goal of $275,000. Let’s make this the best campaign ever!

The Raftopoulos Scholarship is now available. Please call the Church to receive your application. Deadline is May1st.

PHILOPTOCHOS SCHOLARSHIP IS NOW AVAILABLE – If you’re interested in applying, please contact Phyllis Manton at 419-290-2527 or the Church Office for an application. The deadline is April 30^th, 2023.

Warm Hands to Warm Hearts We want to Thank everyone who went with us to Divine Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, to deliver more than 70 Lap Blankets. It was a blessing to see their faces when they received the Blankets made with love. Thank You, to everyone who donated yarn, who made pieces or finished Lap Blankets.

Our Next meeting is April 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm. in the Veronie Hall. Everyone is welcome to join us. We accomplish so much and enjoy fellowship that warm our hearts. Some volunteers organize rectangles into piles by color and design. Others arrange pieces into beautiful patterns that will be sewn together. A few ladies organize donated yarn while others crochet, knit and practice new stitches. In addition, several fold finished lap blankets and a few baby blankets to add to our growing collection. We put together many blankets. It truly was all warm hands-on deck! Everyone is welcome to come or help by making, 7 in by 9-inch pieces. We also need yarn donations. We want to Thank Everyone who is helping with this Ministry. For Questions, contact Dorothy Yakumithis 419-867-0734, Maria Petros 419-473-2387 or Elena Perry 419-265-6275

Update: The local, District and National scholarships are now available for submission. The local AHEPA/Daughters scholarships use the same application to determine recipients. The application can be found at www.toledo.buckeyedistrict11.org. Due date is April 19, 2023. The District scholarship application is available online at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org and is due March 31, 2023. As a reminder, the District scholarship does not have a minimum GPA requirement. Please refer to www.ahepa.org for details on the National scholarship.

MDSC Staff Application Now Open! For those interested in serving our camp please visit https://gomdsc.org/staff-opportunities/ for more information.

Daughters of Penelope Walk with NAMI in 2023: NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. NAMI Walks promotes awareness of mental health, raises funds for NAMI’s free, top-rated programs, and builds community by letting people know they are not alone. Please JOIN OUR TEAM OR MAKE A DONATION. Donating to NAMI through our team page is easy, fast and secure. Please go to https://namitoledo.org to make a donation.

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

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR November 5th & 12th 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: April 30th – Richard & Barbara Hartford – 1 year; Pauline Photos Kambour – 3 years; Konstantinos Tsapranis – 3 years (Trisagion); May 7^th Jane (Papahages) Titer – 40 days; May 14th – Cathy Georgiafandis Craig – 40 days; May 21st - Roula Manton – 1 year

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Chili Cook-Off

The daughters of Penelope are holding a chili cook-off! Please see the flyer for details!

Nami Walk 2023

The daughters of Penelope are supporting Nami of Toledo. Please see the flyer to learn more.

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.

Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion for Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Hypakoe of Great and Holy Pascha in the Fourth Mode

When they who were with Mary came, anticipating the dawn, and found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre, they heard from the Angel: Why seek ye among the dead, as though He were mortal man, Him Who abideth in everlasting light? Behold the grave-clothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen, and hath put death to death. For He is the Son of God, Who saveth the race of men.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Great and Holy Pascha
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 117.24,29.
This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Verse: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 1:1-8.

In the first book, O Theophilos, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of lsrael?" He said to them, "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth."

Gospel Reading

Great and Holy Pascha
The Reading is from John 1:1-17

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light.

The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'") And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Saints and Feasts

April 16

Great and Holy Pascha

Mary Magdalene, and the other women who were present at the burial of our Saviour on Friday evening, returned from Golgotha to the city and prepared fragrant spices and myrrh, so that they might anoint the body of Jesus. On the morrow, because of the law which forbids work on the day of the Sabbath, they rested for the whole day. But at early dawn on the Sunday that followed, almost thirty-six hours since the death of the Life-giving Redeemer, they came to the sepulchre with the spices to anoint His body. While they were considering the difficulty of rolling away the stone from the door of the sepulchre, there was a fearful earthquake; and an Angel, whose countenance shone like lightning and whose garment was white as snow, rolled away the stone and sat upon it. The guards that were there became as dead from fear and took to flight. The women, however, went into the sepulchre, but did not find the Lord's body. Instead, they saw two other Angels in the form of youths clothed in white, who told them that the Saviour was risen, and they sent forth the women, who ran to proclaim to the disciples these gladsome tidings. Then Peter and John arrived, having learned from Mary Magdalene what had come to pass, and when they entered the tomb, they found only the winding sheets. Therefore, they returned again to the city with joy, as heralds now of the supernatural Resurrection of Christ, Who in truth was seen alive by the disciples on this day on five occasions.

Our Lord, then, was crucified, died, and was buried on Friday, before the setting of the sun, which was the first of His "three days" in the grave; observing the mystical Sabbath, that "seventh day" in which it is said that the Lord "rested from all His works" (Gen. 2:2-3), He passed all of Saturday in the grave; and He arose "while it was yet dark, very early in the morning" on Sunday, the third day, which, according to the Hebrew reckoning, began after sunset on Saturday.

As we celebrate today this joyous Resurrection, we greet and embrace one another in Christ, thereby demonstrating our Saviour's victory over death and corruption, and the destruction of our ancient enmity with God, and His reconciliation toward us, and our inheritance of life everlasting. The feast itself is called Pascha, which is derived from the Hebrew word which means "passover"; because Christ, Who suffered and arose, has made us to pass over from the curse of Adam and slavery to the devil and death unto our primal freedom and blessedness. In addition, this day of this particular week, which is the first of all the rest, is dedicated to the honour of the Lord; in honour and remembrance of the Resurrection, the Apostles transferred to this day the rest from labour that was formerly assigned to the Sabbath of the ancient Law.

All foods allowed during Renewal Week.

Wisdom of the Fathers

...all knowledge, strength and virtue are the grace of God, as are all other things. And through grace He has given all men the power to become sons of God (cf. John 1:12) by keeping the divine commandments. Or, rather, these commandments keep us, and are the grace of God, since without His grace we cannot keep them. We have nothing to offer Him except our faith, our resolution and, in brief, all the true dogmas that we hold with firm faith through the teaching we have heard (cf. Rom. 10:17).

St. Peter of Damaskos

A Treasury of Divine Knowledge, Book 1: Introduction, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 89, 8th century

...'the light' already 'shines in the darkness' (Jn. 1:5), both by day and by night, both within and without - within in our hearts (II Cor. 6:16), without in our minds. It shines on us without evening, without change, without alteration, without form. It speaks, works, lives, gives life, and changes into light those whom it illuminates. We bear witness that 'God is light' (I Jn. 1:5) and those to whom it has been granted to see Him have all beheld Him as light, because the light of His glory goes before Him, and it is impossible for Him to appear without light. Those who have not seen His light have not seen Him, for He is the Light, and those who have not received the Light have not yet received grace. Those who have received grace have received the Light of God and have received God, even as Christ Himself, who is the Light, has said, 'I will live in them and move among them' (II Cor. 6:16).

St. Symeon the New Theologian

Discourses: XXVIII sect. 4, Paulist Press pg. 298, 11th century

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