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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2023-04-30
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Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Myrrbear
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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:

Matthew Simko – Maria Tzanakis – Emmanuel T. Yakumithis – Kristin Zink

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIALS ARE FOR:  Richard & Barbara Hartford – 1 year

Pauline (Photos) Kambour – 3 years

TRISAGION PRAYERS FOR:  Konstantinos Tsapranis – 3 years    

May Their Memory Be Eternal

 THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Mrs. Melody Tsapranis in loving memory of her husband Konstantinos   May His Memory Be Eternal.

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:   In Greek:  Bill Plomaritis     In English:  Janis Plomaritis

THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS OFFERED BY: The families of Richard & Barbara Hartford and Pauline Kambour  Thank you and God Bless you.

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: The family of Richard & Barbara Hartford.  Please join them after church for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship in our Veronie Community Hall.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK:  Gust Elmer (St. Anne) Pete Papadimos (UTMC) Maria Malas (Toledo Hospital) Jean Kakmis (Toledo Hospital) Peter Mulopulos (Wildwood) Perastika and a Speedy Recovery

CONDOLENCES to the family of Jennie Samonides whose funeral was this past Thursday.  May Her Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, May 1st:  Parish Council 6 pm.

Tuesday, May 2nd: Bible Study 10 am

Wednesday May 3rd: Bible Study 7 pm, Adult Greek School via zoom 6 pm

Thursday, May 4th:  AHEPA and Daughters Joint Meeting Veronie Hall 6 pm 

Invite all your girlfriends! Bring your female family! Philoptochos and Daughters of Penelope annual Mother’s Day (and all Ladies) luncheon will be held at Georgio’s on Saturday, May 13, 2023 from noon to 3 pm. This year's theme: "Pretty in Pink, Peach and Pastels!"  Enjoy games, prizes, and a raffle.  In our Pad the Pantry effort, please bring hygiene items to earn free raffle tickets.   Choose from Georgio's menu: Beef Stroganoff, Pastry Wrapped Chicken, or Poached Salmon. Purchase tickets after liturgy on April 23, April 30, and May 7. Questions? Contact Nancy at 419-460-0965 or Rodgers.nancy4@gmail.com

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.

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!

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 30th, 2023. 

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 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:  May 7th Jane (Papahages) Titer – 40 days; May 14th – Cathy Georgiafandis Craig – 40 days; May 21st - Roula Manton – 1 year

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    Nami Walk 2023

    Nami Walk 2023

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

    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

Apolytikion of 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.

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

The noble Joseph, taking Thine immaculate Body down from the Tree, and having wrapped It in pure linen and spices, laid It for burial in a new tomb. But on the third day Thou didst arise, O Lord, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

Unto the myrrh-bearing women did the Angel cry out as he stood by the grave: Myrrh oils are meet for the dead, but Christ hath proved to be a stranger to corruption. But cry out: The Lord is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

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.
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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. Second Mode. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7.

In those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, "it is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochoros, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaos, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
The Reading is from Mark 15:43-47; 16:1-8

At that time, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 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; for 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.

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Saints and Feasts

Myrrbear
April 30

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish rulers, they came to the sepulchre, bearing the myrrh-oils they had prepared to annoint His body. It is because of the myrrh-oils, that these God-loving women brought to the tomb of Jesus that they are called the Myrrh-bearers. Of those whose names are known are the following: first of all, the most holy Virgin Mary, who in Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 is called "the mother of James and Joses" (these are the sons of Joseph by a previous marriage, and she was therefore their step-mother); Mary Magdalene (celebrated July 22); Mary, the wife of Clopas; Joanna, wife of Chouza, a steward of Herod Antipas; Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus; and Susanna. As for the names of the rest of them, the evangelists have kept silence (Matt 27:55-56; 28:1-10. Mark 15:40-41. Luke 8:1-3; 23:55-24:11, 22-24. John 19:25; 20:11-18. Acts 1:14).

Together with them we celebrate also the secret disciples of the Saviour, Joseph and Nicodemus. Of these, Nicodemus was probably a Jerusalemite, a prominent leader among the Jews and of the order of the Pharisees, learned in the Law and instructed in the Holy Scriptures. He had believed in Christ when, at the beginning of our Saviour's preaching of salvation, he came to Him by night. Furthermore, he brought some one hundred pounds of myrrh-oils and an aromatic mixture of aloes and spices out of reverence and love for the divine Teacher (John 19:39). Joseph, who was from the city of Arimathea, was a wealthy and noble man, and one of the counsellors who were in Jerusalem. He went boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and together with Nicodemus he gave Him burial. Since time did not permit the preparation of another tomb, he placed the Lord's body in his own tomb which was hewn out of rock, as the Evangelist says (Matt. 27:60).

Jameszebedee
April 30

James the Apostle and brother of St. John the Theologian

James was one of the Twelve, like his brother John (celebrated on Sept. 26), whom the Lord called "Sons of Thunder," because they became great preachers and because of their profound theology. It was the Saint's boldness in preaching the Gospel that Herod Agrippa, the son of Aristobulus and grandson of Herod the Great, could not endure, and so he took him into custody during the days of the Passover, and slew him with the sword (Acts 12: 1-2); and thus he drank the cup of which the Saviour had spoken to him prophetically (Matt. 20:23). As for Herod, the following year he went down to Caesarea, and, as the Acts of the Apostles records: "Upon a set day, Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration" to the elders of Tyre and Sidon; and the flatterers that surrounded him "gave a shout, saying, 'it is the voice of a god, and not of a man.' And immediately an Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory; and like his grandfather (see Dec. 29) "he was eaten of worms and gave up the spirit" (Acts 12:21-23)

Allsaint
April 30

Argyra the New Martyr

Allsaint
April 30

Clement the Hymnographer

Allsaint
April 30

Erconwald, Bishop of London

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Wisdom of the Fathers

They [the women] had followed Him ministering to Him, and were present even unto the time of the dangers. Wherefore also they saw all; how He cried, how He gave up the ghost, how the rocks were rent, and all the rest.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 88 on Matthew 27, 4th Century

And these [the women] first see Jesus; and the sex that was most condemned, this first enjoys the sight of the blessings, this most shows its courage. And when the disciples had fled, these were present.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 88 on Matthew 27, 4th Century

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