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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2024-01-21
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Parish News
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Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Allsaint
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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:

George Sares – Paul Sieben – Matthew Simko – John Spillson 

CHRISMATIONS:  Today we are blessed to Chrismate the servants of God Caryn Petros Sponsored by John and Alta Spillson and Liliana Petros Sponsored by George and Sophia Spillson.  May our Lord continue to illumine and bless them!

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:  In Greek:  Pete Kanios    English: Josh Lytle

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY:  Paul and Maria Kallis in loving memory of Tulla Mihas.  May Her Memory Be Eternal   

THIS WEEK’S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY.  Enjoy coffee, refreshments and fellowship after Divine Liturgy in the Veronie Community Hall.

The Prosfora, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of all the worshipping faithful was offered this week by Tasoulla Proestou in loving memory of Nafsika Proestou and Dr. Susan Sieben in honor of Paul’s 77th birthday which is tomorrow.  May God Continue to Bless Him Always. 

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:    

Tuesday, January 23rd:  Bible Study 10 am

Wednesday, January 24th: Bible Study 7 pm

Thursday, January 25th:  Aurora House Cooking Class

Saturday, January 27th:  Parents of Young Children, GOYO Grand Rapids 

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.

AHEPA/Daughters Scholarships - 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, 2024.  The District scholarship application is available online at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org 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. A special note to the young men who are applying for the local and/or District scholarships.  Special consideration is given to applicants who are members of either the AHEPA or the Sons of Pericles.  If you are not a member please contact Tony Capranica – 419-540-1150 – about becoming a member of either Order. 

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!!!

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. 

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 17, 24 & 31 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.

UP-COMING MEMORIALS:  February 4th – Ann Mulopulos – 40 days; February 11th-Bill Kakmis-40 days 

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    Project Mexico 2023

    Project Mexico 2023

    We are going back to Mexico! Please see the flyer for more details about this wonderfully mission.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Maximus the Confessor in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Guide of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and holiness, luminary of the world, God-inspired adornment of monastics, O wise Maximos, by thy teachings thou hast enlightened all, O harp of the Spirit. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Apolytikion of the Church in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Blessed are You, O Christ our God, who made fisherman all-wise, by sending down upon them the Holy Spirit, and through them, drawing all the world into Your net. O Loving One, glory be to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the First Mode

Your birth sanctified a Virgin's womb and properly blessed the hands of Symeon. Having now come and saved us O Christ our God, give peace to Your commonwealth in troubled times and strengthen those in authority, whom You love, as only the loving One.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Eleventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:14-25

At that time, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him, "Follow me." Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11.

Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.

Gospel Reading

12th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 17:12-19

At that time, as Jesus entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus's feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then said Jesus: "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" And he said to him: "Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well."

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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
January 21

Neophytos the Martyr of Nicaea

The Martyr Neophytos, who was from Nicea in Bithynia, was the son of pious parents, Theodore and Florence. Led by grace from his childhood, he took up his dwelling in a cave upon Mount Olympus at the age of nine and lived there in asceticism and prayer. At the age of fifteen, during the reign of Diocletian about the year 290, he presented himself to the local Governor named Decius. Roused to fury by his unexpected boldness, Decius had him scourged, then laid out on a bed of fire. When he had been preserved by grace through these torments, he gave him up to wild beasts. But since the Saint remained unharmed, a certain pagan fell on him with a sword and slew him.

Lepers
January 21

12th Sunday of Luke

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January 21

Maximos the Confessor

The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and his grandson Constans. When the Monothelite heresy became predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it - neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile where he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were Orthodox in the East (See also August 13).

Allsaint
January 21

Martyrs Neophytos, Agnes, Patroclus, Maximus the Greek and Eugene of Trebizond

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Having met the Savior, therefore, the lepers earnestly besought Him to free them from their misery, and called Him Master, that is. Teacher. No one pitied them when suffering this malady, but He Who had appeared on earth for this very reason, and had become man that He might show pity to all, He was moved with compassion for them, and had mercy on them.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homilies 113-116. B#42, pp. 465-466, 4th Century

And why did He not rather say, I will, be you cleansed; as He did in the case of another leper, but commanded them rather to show themselves to the priests? It was because the law gave directions to this effect to those who were delivered from leprosy (Lev. 14-2); for it commanded them to show themselves to the priests, and to offer a sacrifice for their cleansing.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homilies 113-116. B#42, pp. 465-466, 4th Century

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