November 19
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2023-11-19
Bulletin Contents
Parish News
Insert
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Holy Trinity Cathedral
General Information
- Phone:
- (419) 243-9189
- Fax:
- (419) 243-3799
- Email:
- holytrinitytoledo@gmail.com
- 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
- Publish Date:
- 2023-11-26
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- 2023-11-12
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- 2023-11-05
- Publish Date:
- 2023-10-29
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- 2023-10-22
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- 2023-10-15
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:
George Sares – Paul Sieben – Kypros Proestos – Matt Simko
"We want to extend a personal welcome to the OCF (Orthodox Christian Fellowship) from the University of Toledo! This is a wonderful group of young adults that are very faithful and kind. They are visiting us this month for Liturgy. Please introduce yourself and talk to them; I know that you will find them as lovely and wonderful as I have! We are so excited to have them join us and look forward to seeing them again soon."
THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE: In Greek: Basil Apostolou In English: Gene Haberman
THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY
THIS WEEK’S PROSFORA IS SPONSORED BY: Tasoulla Proestou in loving memory of Costas Proestou and Savvas Hadjipanteli. May Their Memory Be Eternal
THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:
Tuesday, November 21st: Liturgy Entrance of the Theotokos Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am, No morning bible study
Wednesday, November 22nd: No Bible Study
Thursday-Friday: Office Closed for Thanksgiving
Saturday, November 25th: Saint Katherine Orthros 9 am Divine Liturgy 10 am
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL 2ND ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHILI COOKOFF IS TODAY!!! This year’s cookoff will also be a pep rally. There are three prizes, 1st Place - $50 gift card for Georgio's Grill, 2nd Place- $25 gift card for Bar 145, 3rd Place – TBD.
Tonight is our Annual Madonna Homes Thanksgiving dinner; it will be our 1st since Covid -19. We welcome volunteers to join us by 5:00, we plan to serve dinner at 6:00. Please let Kelly Yakumithis, Pam Martin or Terry Irmen know if you are interested in working. We are happy to accept donations to help with the expense of this project. Monetary donations are greatly appreciated since groceries are so expensive.
Community Christmas Card: Our GOYANS will be offering the community Christmas card this year. The kids will be at a table in the Hall. Please see them in order to participate in this year’s Christmas Card!
Community Christmas Party 2023:Philoptochos is sponsoring a community Christmas party! Please see the flyer for details and get your tickets after Liturgy.
Holy Trinity Pantry Ministry Update: Government subsidizing of Food Banks and Food assistance has decreased, and the need for assistance and food for those in-need has increased. Please consider donating to our Pantry this month. The items that are most needed are: Jelly, Mac n cheese, tuna or other canned meat, saltine crackers. Thank you for your generous donations!
Attention: Warm Hands to Warm participants, our November meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 at 1:00 PM in the Veronie Community Hall in the AHEPA Room. Remember, rectangles for Lap Blankets should measure 7x9 inches, any color, design, or yarn type. It takes 25 rectangles for each blanket. Please continue to donate yarn as we are always in need. All are welcome. We have a job for you! For questions or more information, contact Elena Perry at 419-265-6275 or Maria Petros at 419-473-2387."
STEWARDSHIP UPDATE: We are in the 11th month of our 2023 Stewardship Campaign and fast approaching the last quarter. Are you current with your pledge?...If you are…we thank you!..If you aren’t. Please catch up. We need everyone’s support to make this a successful campaign!
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 November and December. Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com
ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR March 3 & 10 2024 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.
Insert
Thanksgiving Dinner
November 19 will be Our Annual Madonna Homes Thanksgiving dinner; it will be our 1st since Covid -19. See Flyer for details
Chili Cookoff
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL 2ND ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHILI COOKOFF NOVEMBER 19th!!! This year’s cookoff will also be a pep rally. There are three prizes, 1st Place - $50 gift card for Georgio's Grill, 2nd Place- $25 gift card for Bar 145, 3rd Place – TBD. Please bring canned goods for our food pantry. There will be a table for OSU and U of M! See the flyer for more details.
Community Christmas Card
Please see the flyer for more details about this year's community Christmas card. If you are would like to have your name in the card the GOYANS will be help you fill the attached flyer.
Community Christmas Party
Philoptochos is sponsoring a community Christmas party! Please see the flyer for details and get your tickets after Liturgy.
Project Mexico 2023
We are going back to Mexico! Please see the flyer for more details about this wonderfully mission.
2023 Christmas Boutique
Philoptchos is sponsoring a Christmas Boutique! Please see the flyer for details.
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode
Thou didst abolish death by Thy Cross; Thou didst open Paradise to the thief; Thou didst transform the myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and didst bid Thine Apostles to preach that Thou art risen, O Christ God, granting great mercy to the world.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode
Today, the most pure temple of the Savior, the precious bridal chamber and Virgin, the sacred treasure of God, enters the house of the Lord, bringing the grace of the Divine Spirit. The Angels of God praise her. She is the heavenly tabernacle.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Matins Gospel Reading
Second Orthros Gospel
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. Grave Mode. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:14-22.
Brethren, Christ is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Gospel Reading
9th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 12:16-21
The Lord said this parable: "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." As he said these things, he cried out: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Saints and Feasts
November 19
Obadiah the Prophet
The Divine Scriptures do not tell us with any certainty when the Prophet Obadiah lived nor what was his homeland. Thus, some say that he is that Obadiah who was Ahab's steward, who, because of Jezebel's wrath, hid one hundred prophets in a cave and fed them with bread and water (III Kings 18:4), and that he later became a disciple of Elias the Prophet about 903 B.C. But others surmise from the words of the same prophetical book that he is somewhat later than Joel (celebrated on Oct. 19). He is also called Obdiu, or Abdiu, or Obadiah; his name means "servant of God." His book of prophecy, which consists of only one chapter, is ranked fourth among the minor Prophets.
November 19
Barlaam of Caesarea
Saint Barlaam, who was from a certain village near Antioch in Syria, was advanced in years and a husbandman by occupation. Because of his confession of Christ, he was brought before the judge, who had him scourged with whips and then scraped with iron claws. Since this could not break his constancy, he was forcibly haled to the idols' temple, and live coals with incense were placed in his right hand. The judge thought that he would cast them down because of the pain, thus seeming to have offered a sacrifice of incense to the idols. But Saint Barlaam stood unmoving until his hand was thoroughly burned by the coals; he fell to the ground, and so gave up his soul into the hands of the Lord. He contested in martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (284-305). Saint Basil the Great and Saint John Chrysostom both gave homilies in his honour.
November 19
Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia
November 19
Anthimos, Thallalaeos, Christopher, Euphemia & her children, the Martyrs
Wisdom of the Fathers
I cannot be silent about the story of Hesychius the Horebite. He passed his life in complete negligence, without paying the least attention to his soul. Then he became extremely ill, and for an hour he left his body.
Ladder of Divine Ascent. Step 6: On Remembrance of Death, 6th Century
And when he came to himself, he begged us all to leave him immediately. And he built up the door of his cell, and he stayed in it for twelve years without ever uttering a word to anyone, and without eating anything but bread and water.
Ladder of Divine Ascent. Step 6: On Remembrance of Death, 6th Century