January 14
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2024-01-14
Bulletin Contents
Parish News
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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.
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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:
Debbie Morris – Pete Papadimos – Steve Papadimos – Frank Reder
THIS WEEK’S MEMORIALS ARE FOR: Maria Kanios – 40 days, Maria Grillis - 5 months, Chris Grillis - 1 year
TRISAGION PRAYERS: Neocles Leontis – 3 years, Haralambia Georghakis – 24 years
May Their Memory Be Eternal
THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE: In Greek: Charis Besios English: Frank Reder
THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Dennis & Katherine Lawrence in loving memory of Konstantine Sr, Georgia, Demetra, and Konstantine Petros and Ken Bertok. May Their Memory Be Eternal
The Prosfora, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of all the worshipping faithful was offered this week by Dawn Anagnos . Thank You and God Bless
THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: The Kanios & Papadimos Families in loving memory of Maria Kanios. May Her Memory Be Eternal. Please join them after Divine Liturgy for coffee, refreshments and fellowship in the Veronie Community Hall.
Condolences to the family of Ann Mulopulos whose funeral was January 5th.
Condolences to the family of William Kakmis whose funeral was this past Thursday.
May Their Memory Be Eternal
THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:
Monday, January 15th: Sunday School Teacher meeting 7 pm via Zoom
Tuesday, January 16th: Bible Study 10 am, GOYA Coffee Talk Charlie’s Central 6pm
Wednesday, January 17th: Bible Study 7 pm
Thursday, January 18th: Young at Heart meeting noon, Young Adult gathering Georgios Grill 5:30 pm
Friday, January 19th: Paraklesis 7 pm
STEWARDSHIP UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who has fulfilled your 2023 Stewardship Commitment. If you haven’t, please do so when you’re able. 2024 Stewardship Campaign is now underway. Please turn in your 2024 if you haven’t already done so. Thank you for your support of our Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Happy New Year from the Holy Trinity Pantry! We are busy refilling our Pantry for the next Open Pantry on January 30th. Please consider donating items or making a monetary donation toward purchases, and we will do the shopping for you. At this time, the items most needed are: Pasta sauce, shelf-stable milk, jelly, canned chili soup, and boxed meals like Hamburger Helper. We are grateful for all of the past donations from our parishioners. Thank you!!!
Dear Parish Family, we are excited to announce the renovation work on the Cathedral will begin tomorrow. Please note beginning Sunday, January 14th we will start worshiping in the Veronie Hall. A couple things to remember. First, please enter through the Superior entrance. The Summit entrance will be kept locked. On Sundays, that part of the building will be used for liturgical purposes. If you are hosting coffee hour, please bring items on Friday and have them ready in the hall refrigerator so as not to disturb the services. If Friday does not work, please call the office to set up another time to delivery items. Coffee hour will be set up during the announcements and the passing of trays. The most important thing to remember is patience and prayer. We will make adjustments to these protocols as needed. It’s a work in progress.
If you wish to enroll in Kroger Rewards, please, visit our Church website and look for the Kroger Rewards link under ‘Our Church’. This page will guide you and provide the opportunity of going directly to the Kroger Rewards link. Once on the Kroger Rewards link; click on “Create an Account” and follow the prompts. Our name is Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Philoptochos and our ID# is CM658. Make sure your phone number is listed under the ALT ID section. Also, keep your account information updated & if you have any questions or problems, please, see Faye Haberman.
The local, District and National scholarships will soon be 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 will be available online at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org on January 1st and will be due March 31, 2024. 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.
Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWM): Our January meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM in the AHEPA Room of the Veronie Community Hall. Our yarn supply is now growing, so we thank you very much! Please continue to donate whenever you can. We appreciate it very much and can assure you that it will be used! Please keep crocheting or knitting 7x9 inch rectangles. It takes 25 for each lap blanket. Winter is a perfect time to stay warm and cozy inside and work on making colorful rectangles in the stitch and design of your choice. For more information or questions, please call Elena Perry at (419) 265-6275 or Maria Petros at (419) 473-2387. Thanks!
ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS: ***PROSFORA NEEDED FOR THE MONTHS OF January. Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com
ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR March 10, 17, 24 & 312024 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.
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Project Mexico 2023
We are going back to Mexico! Please see the flyer for more details about this wonderfully mission.
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.
Apolytikion for Apodosis of Epiphany in the First Mode
When Thou wast baptized in the Jordan, O Lord, the worship of the Trinity was made manifest; for the voice of the Father bare witness to Thee, calling Thee His beloved Son. And the Spirit in the form of a dove confirmed the certainty of the word. O Christ our God, Who hast appeared and hast enlightened the world, glory be to Thee.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode
You appeared to the world today, and Your light, O Lord, has left its mark upon us. With fuller understanding we sing to You: "You came, You were made manifest, the unapproachable light."
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Matins Gospel Reading
Tenth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:1-14
At that time, Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and He revealed Himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after He was raised from the dead. .
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.
BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Gospel Reading
Sunday after Epiphany
The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17
At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Saints and Feasts
January 14
Sunday after Epiphany
January 14
The Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raitho
As for the holy Martyrs of Sinai and Raithu, those of Sinai contested during the reign of Diocletian, about the year 296; those of Raithu were slain about the middle of the fifth century. On both occasions, the perpetrators of these massacres were a barbarian tribe called Blemmyes, from the parts of Arabia and Egypt.
Because of the Apodosis of the Feast of Holy Theophany also on the 14th of January, the liturgical services to the Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raitho are transferred to January 13th.
January 14
Savas I, Archbishop of Serbia
Saint Sabbas (Sava), the first Archbishop and teacher of the Serbs, and the most beloved of all the Saints of Serbia, was born in 1169, and was named Rastko by his parents. He was the son of Stephen Nemanja, the ruler of Serbia, who is better known as Saint Symeon the Myrrh-streamer (see Feb. 13). As a young man, Rastko fled secretly to the Holy Mountain, Athos, to the Monastery of Saint Panteleimon. When his father learned of his flight, he sent soldiers after him. Before they could seize him, he was tonsured a monk with the name of Sabbas, after Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (celebrated Dec. 5). Soon after, he entered the Monastery of Vatopedi, where his father joined him in 1197. Together they rebuilt the Monastery of Hilandar and made it a great spiritual center for their countrymen. In 1200 Saint Symeon reposed, and his body became a source of holy myrrh; in 1204 Saint Sabbas was compelled to return to Serbia with his father's relics, that he might restore peace between his two brothers, who were struggling over the rule of the kingdom. The grace of Saint Symeon's relics, and the mediations of Saint Sabbas, healed the division between his brethren. After persuading the Emperor in Constantinople and the Ecumenical Patriarch to grant autocephaly to the Serbian Church, the Saint against his will was ordained first Archbishop of his native land in 1219, where he labored diligently to establish the Orthodox Faith. In 1221 he crowned his brother Stephen first King of Serbia (the memory of Saint Stephen, First Crowned King of Serbia, is kept on September 24). In 1234, foreseeing by divine grace his coming departure to the Lord, he resigned the archiepiscopal throne, named his disciple Arsenius as his successor, and made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Mount Sinai; while returning through Bulgaria, he fell asleep in peace in 1236. Because he has been ever since the national hero of Serbia and an invincible bulwark strengthening the Orthodox Faith, the Moslem Turks burned his incorrupt relics in the year 1594. See also June 28.
January 14
Nina of Georgia
The holy virgin Nina was from Cappadocia. According to some, her father Zabulon was a friend of the holy Great Martyr George, whose father was a Cappadocian. The conversion of Georgia by Saint Nina is reported in the Church histories of Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret: Rufinus, writing less than a hundred years after Saint Nina, said that he heard the history in Jerusalem from a Georgian Prince named Bacurius. Saint Nina was taken captive by the Georgians (whom the Greek accounts call Iberians), and while in captivity she lived a very devout life of sobriety and virtue, praying unceasingly night and day; this drew the attention of the Georgians, and to all who asked her about her way of life, she preached the dispensation of Christ. When she healed by her prayer a certain woman's sick child, whom no one else had been able to help, the report of her came to the ears of the Queen of Georgia, who was herself gravely afflicted with an incurable malady. She asked that the captive women be brought to her, but Saint Nina declined out of modesty, so the Queen commanded them to carry her to Nina. Saint Nina healed her immediately, and the Queen returned home in joy. When she extolled Nina and her faith to the king, he gave her no heed, although she mentioned it to him often. But while hunting in the forest, he was shrouded with an impenetrable darkness in which he lost his way, became separated from his men, and fell into despair; he made a vow that if Christ should deliver him, he would worship him alone. The light of day straightway shone again, and the king fulfilled his vow. He and the Queen were instructed in the Faith by Saint Nina, and they with the whole Georgian nation became Christ's. The King also sent an embassy to Saint Constantine the Great, informing him of their conversion, and requesting that priests be sent to Georgia. Saint Nina reposed in peace in about the year 335. The above-mentioned Church historians speak of her without calling her Nina. She is celebrated in the Roman Martyrology on December 15 under the name Christina.
Because of the Apodosis of the Feast of Holy Theophany also on the 14th of January, the liturgical services to Saint Nina are transferred to January 13th.
Wisdom of the Fathers
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when ye assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Epistle to the Ephesians Ch. 13, 2nd century
For as persons not even knowing where to put a step forward, so they sat, overtaken by the darkness.
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century