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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2023-05-14
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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.


Past Bulletins


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 – Kyp Proestos

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIAL IS FOR: Cathy Georgiafandis Craig - 40 Days

May Her Memory Be Eternal

 THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY:  Gene & Faye Haberman.  Happy Mother's Day to Maria Melas & Olympia Ntakos and to all the Mothers, Grandmothers, Stepmothers, & Godmothers in our community. Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do!

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:   In Greek:  Basil Apostolou   In English:  Soteria Houlles

 THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY.

 PROSFORA OFFERED by the Family of Cathy Georgiafandis Craig

Happy Mother’s Day to all our Moms!!!  May Lord bless and keep you!

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Tuesday, May 16th: Bible Study 10 am

Thursday, May 18th:  Young at Heart 6 pm

Sunday School Graduation and Scholarship Sunday is today!  Dear Parish family immediately after Church we have a brief program for our graduates and we will give our Sunday School kids their certificates.  Congratulations to our Graduates!

FESTIVAL WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:  Can you believe it!  Its time to get ready for the Greek American Festival 2023!  This is a wonderful opportunity for our parish family to work together to support this very important ministry.  Below please find this year’s schedule. 

Remember to please bring a small sauce pan and pastry brush when noted. Bring your own apron.  If you have any questions call the Church office – 419-243-9189

Monday, May 22nd (9:00 a.m.):  Tiropita (bring sauce pan & brush

Tuesday, May 23rd (9:00 a.m.):  Tiropita (bring sauce pan & brush)   

Sunday, June 11th After church Services:  Baklava (bring sauce pan & brush)

Monday, June 12th (9:00 a.m.):  Baklava (bring sauce pan & brush)

Sunday, June 18th After church services:  Dolmathes

Monday, June 19th (9:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.) Dolmathes

Tuesday, June 20th (9:00 a.m.)  Dolmathes if needed

Sunday, June 25th After church services:  Spanakopita (bring sauce pan & brush)

Sunday, July 9th After church services:  Galaktobouriko (bring sauce pan & brush)

Monday, July 10th {9:00 a.m.):  Galaktobouriko (bring sauce pan & brush)

Sunday, July 16th After church services:  Koulourakia

Monday, July 17th (9:00 a.m.):   Koulourakia             

Sunday, July 23rd After church services:  Finikia

Monday, July 24th (9:00 a.m.):  Finikia

Sunday, July 30th After church services:  Paximathia

Monday, July 31st d (9:00 a.m.): Kourambiethes

Sunday, August 6th After church services:  Make-ups Workshops (Ouzo)

Monday, August 7th (9:00 a.m.)Make-ups Workshops (Ouzo)

Holy Trinity Trip to Holy Dormition Monastery in Rives Junction, MI – All are welcome.  Saturday, June 24th.  We will car pool.  Please RSVP to Dr. Susan Sieben 419-450-2782.  More details to follow

YAH Cape Cod Trip update:  I will be distributing the itinerary packages after Church.  If you do not receive the package prior to the trip; you will be given the package prior to boarding the bus.  If you plan on parking your car for the week; you need to provide me your information, so I can let Carole know.  Please, let me know immediately, because there is a lot more preparation needed that I need to take care of in the upcoming 3 weeks.  You need to provide your name, make/model of vehicle, & license plate.  For those who have already given me the information.  Thank you!

Lancaster Trip update: As of this week, I only have 5 paid deposits and no interest has been shown to continue collecting deposits until May 21st.  As such, I will be cancelling the October trip and those who paid deposits will receive refunds."

Christos Anesti Holy Trinity!  Here is the list for our most needed Pantry items.  Please consider donating this month!  Thank you!   We need: canned chicken, canned tuna, jelly, saltine or Ritz crackers. We will always gladly accept all nonperishable food items, hygiene items, and monetary donations. Thank you for giving to this very worthy ministry.

Warm hands to Warm Hearts: Our next meeting for Warm Hands to Warm Hearts is May 30, 2023, at 1 PM, at the church, in the Ahepa Room, of the Veronie Hall.    We welcome everyone to come, there are many jobs to do so all hands are needed.  If you knit or crochet the Lap Blanket rectangles are 7 inches by 9 inches, any color any yarn.  If you want to learn how to knit or crochet we will be happy to teach you.  We also need Yarn donations so if you have or know of anyone who has extra yarn, we sure can use it.  It takes 25 rectangles to make one Lap Blanket.  They turn out so beautiful and are really appreciated by the ones who receive them. For questions contact Elena Perry 419-265-6275, or Maria Petros 419-473-2387

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!

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 21st - Roula Manton – 1 year; May 28th – Jennie Samonides – 40 days;  All Deceased Members of YAH; June 11th – Chris Theodorou – 5 years

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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 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 Mid-Pentecost in the Plagal Fourth Mode

At Mid-feast give Thou my thirsty soul to drink of the waters of piety; for Thou, O Saviour, didst cry out to all: Whosoever is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Wherefore, O Well-spring of life, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

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

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. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30.

In those days, those apostles who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose; for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius. And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea, and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.


Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
The Reading is from John 4:5-42

At that time, Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him.

Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him food?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard ourselves, and we know that this is indeed Christ the Savior of the world."


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Saints and Feasts

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May 14

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this town, Jacob, who had come from Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century before Christ, bought a piece of land where there was a well. This well, preserved even until the time of Christ, was known as Jacob's Well. Later, before he died in Egypt, he left that piece of land as a special inheritance to his son Joseph (Gen. 49:22). This town, before it was taken into possession by Samaria, was also the leading city of the kingdom of the ten tribes. In the time of the Romans it was called Neapolis, and at present Nablus. It was the first city in Canaan visited by the Patriarch Abraham. Here also, Jesus of Navi (Joshua) addressed the tribes of Israel for the last time. Almost three hundred years later, all Israel assembled there to make Roboam (Rehoboam) king.

When our Lord Jesus Christ, then, came at midday to this city, which is also called Sychar (John 4:5), He was wearied from the journey and the heat, and He sat down at this well. After a little while the Samaritan woman mentioned in today's Gospel passage came to draw water. As she conversed at some length with the Lord and heard from Him secret things concerning herself, she believed in Him; through her many other Samaritans also believed.

Concerning the Samaritans we know the following: In the year 721 before Christ, Salmanasar (Shalmaneser), King of the Assyrians, took the ten tribes of the kingdom of Israel into captivity, and relocated all these people to Babylon and the land of the Medes. From there he gathered various nations and sent them to Samaria. These nations had been idolaters from before. Although they were later instructed in the Jewish faith and believed in the one God, they worshipped the idols also. Furthermore, they accepted only the Pentateuch of Moses, and rejected the other books of Holy Scripture. Nonetheless, they thought themselves to be descendants of Abraham and Jacob. Therefore, the pious Jews named these Judaizing and idolatrous peoples Samaritans, since they lived in Samaria, the former leading city of the Israelites, as well as in the other towns thereabout. The Jews rejected them as heathen and foreigners, and had no communion with them at all, as the Samaritan woman observed, "the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans" (John 4:9). Therefore, the name Samaritan is used derisively many times in the Gospel narrations. After the Ascension of the Lord, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the woman of Samaria was baptized by the holy Apostles and became a great preacher and Martyr of Christ; she was called Photine, and her feast is kept on February 26.


Allsaint
May 14

Isidore the Martyr of Chios

This Saint was a soldier from Alexandria. He came with the Roman fleet to Chios, where he was betrayed as a Christian to Numerian, Commander of the Fleet. Because he boldly pro-fessed himself to worship Christ as God and refused to worship any other, he was tormented and beheaded in 251, during the reign of Decius.


Therapon
May 14

Holy Hieromartyr Therapontus


Allsaint
May 14

Holy New Martyrs Mark and John


Allsaint
May 14

Leontius, Patriarch of Jerusalem


Allsaint
May 14

Serapion the Holy Martyr


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Wisdom of the Fathers

Here is love! Here is teaching! Here is acquiescence! Here is a model! ... Those who love they also serve. If you want to find out how great your love is towards God, then measure your obedience to the will of God, and you will immediately learn.
Bishop Nicolai Velimirovic
Prolog, 7 Sept., B #80, 706.

The example of the good Samaritan shows that we must not abandon those in whom even the faintest amount of faith is still alive.
St. Ambrose of Milan
Two Books of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Concerning Repentance, Chapter 11

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