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Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2024-02-11
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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
Theodora
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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:

Pete Papadimos – Steve Papadimos – Frank Reder – George Sares

THIS WEEK’S MEMORIAL IS FOR: William S. Kakmis – 40 Days   May His Memory Be Eternal

THIS WEEK’S EPISTLE READERS ARE:  In Greek:  Christina Harwood    English: Dr. Susan Sieben

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY:  Peter and Dianne Sun in loving memory of Chris G. and Cleo Zervos   May Their Memory Be Eternal.    

The Prosfora, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of all the worshipping faithful was offered this week by The Kakmis Family Thank You and God Bless

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:    

Tuesday, February 13th: Bible Study 10 AM

Wednesday, February 14th: Bible Study 7 PM

Thursday, February 15th: Young at Heart Luncheon 12 PM

Friday, February 16th: Paraklesis 7 PM

GOD-PARENT GOD CHILD SUNDAY:  All God-Parents and God-Children will receive Holy Communion together today.  There will be a short prayer service as well to bless our Godparents and Children.  May we allow this day to be a time to strengthen our relationship with each other.

SUPER BOWL OF CARING TODAY– Help the Youth of our Parish become Souper Bowl Champions and Tackle Hunger!  The GOYANS and HOPE and JOY kids will be selling soup.  The cost is $5 for and unlimited bowl.  All Proceeds to benefit IOCC.

Apokriatiko Luncheon – The AHEPA and Daughters chapters of Toledo are sponsoring the annual Apokriatiko Luncheon on March 10 following the Divine Liturgy.  The menu includes kokkinisto beef and makaronatha, salad and dessert.  Beer and soft drinks will be available for purchase.  Tables will be decorated in a festive atmosphere and DJ Dimitri will be spinning Greek tunes to enjoy or dance to.  Tickets are available after church and takeout will also be available.  Join your friends and family for pre-Lenten fellowship.

Super Bowl Squares – AHEPA Super Bowl squares are now available.  Each square is $15.  See Tony Capranica after Divine Liturgy to “get on the board”.

STEWARDSHIP UPDATE:  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.

THE RAFTOPOULOS SCHOLARSHIP is now available.  If you would like an application form, please contact the Church office.   Deadline is May 1, 2024.

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.

YAH has a trip to The Ark Encounter planned for Monday, Oct. 14th - Thursday, Oct.17th.  Cost is $560 per person, double occupancy.  A $75 deposit is due no later than May 15th unless we book up before then.  Final deposit will be due no later than August 1, 2024. Only 46 seats available, so get your deposit in as soon as possible. Please, see Faye Haberman or Kris Reder if interested.  No credit cards- checks are to be payable to Young at Heart. Hope to travel with you & make some great memories!

PANTRY UPDATE: Holy Trinity Pantry is now reaching people that live outside of our neighborhood and are in need. We are now on the United Way's list of Pantries!  In one hour on January 30th, we served 64 households! In addition, each month we serve about 15 more households at the Pantry door.  Please consider monetary or food and hygiene donations. Needed Items this month are: Jelly, PB, canned chicken, pasta sauce, Hamburger Helper, and Chili Soup. Thank you, Holy Trinity Parishioners for all of your generous donations!

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWM): Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 in the Veronie Community Hall. Please join us; all are welcome. Many thanks to those of you who participated in our first lap blanket donation of 2024. We delivered over 80 blankets to residents of Advanced Healthcare Center of Toledo. What a heartwarming experience for all involved! Please read about our delivery in the March Echo. We appreciate your yarn donations; we are always in need. Thank you. For more information or questions, contact Elena Perry (419-265-6275) or Maria Petros (419-473-2387).

ATTENTION PROSFORA BAKERS: ***PROSFORA NEEDED FOR THE MONTHS OF February and March.  Please call Connie Mynihan at 419-250-4899 or email at cmynihan5@gmail.com 

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR June 30,2024 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.

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    Godparent and Godchild Sunday 2024!

    Godparent and Godchild Sunday 2024!

    Godparent and godchild Sunday is February 11th! Please make every effort to come with godparent and receive communion together. See the flyer for more details.

    Souper Bowl of Caring 2024!

    Souper Bowl of Caring 2024!

    Save the date! On February 11th the GOYANS will offer the annual Souper Bowl of Caring. Please see the flyer for details.

    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 Third Mode

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Hieromartyr Blaise in the Fourth Mode

As a sharer of the ways and a successor to the throne of the Apostles, O inspired of God, thou foundest discipline to be a means of ascent to divine vision. Wherefore, having rightly divided the word of truth, thou didst also contest for the Faith even unto blood, O Hieromartyr Blaise. Intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Third Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:9-20

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. After this He appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table and He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Third Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10.

Brethren, working together with him, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Gospel Reading

16th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 25:14-30

The Lord said this parable: "A man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." As he said these things he cried out: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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Saints and Feasts

Theodora
February 11

Theodora the Empress

As for the renowned Empress Theodora, she was from Paphlagonia and was the daughter of a certain Marinus, the commander of a military regiment. While being the wife of the Emperor Theophilus, the last of the Iconoclasts, she adorned the royal diadem with her virtue and piety; as long as her husband Theophilus lived, she privately venerated icons, despite his displeasure. After his death, she restored the holy icons to public veneration; this is commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the First Sunday of the Great Fast. She governed the Empire wisely for fifteen years, since her son Michael was not yet of age. But in 857 she forsook her royal power and entered a certain convent in Constantinople called Gastria, where she finished the course of her life in holiness and reposed in the Lord. Her sacred incorrupt remains are found in Corfu, in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Cave, in the capital city of the island (see also Dec. 12).

Nativity_baptist
February 11

Finding of the relics of Zachariah the Prophet, Father of the Holy Forerunner

Blasios
February 11

Blaise the Hieromartyr of Sebastia

Saint Blaise was Bishop of Sebastia. Divine grace, through which he healed the diseases of men and beasts, and especially of infants, made his name famous. He contested for the Faith under Licinius in the year 316. Saint Blaise is invoked for the healing of throat ailments.

Mattevng
February 11

16th Sunday of Matthew

Allsaint
February 11

George the Serbian

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Wisdom of the Fathers

There is an old saying: 'Excesses meet.' Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as ... sluggishness... Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by gluttony fall, nevertheless, through immoderate fasting and tumble in weakness into the very urge which they had overcome. Unmeasured vigils and foolish denial of rest overcame those whom sleep could not overcome. Therefore, 'fortified to right and to left in the armor of justice,' as the apostle says (2 Cor. 6:7), life must be lived with due measure and, with discernment for a guide, the road must be traveled between the two kinds of excess so that in the end we may not allow ourselves to be diverted from the pathway of restraint which has been laid down for us nor fall through dangerous carelessness into the urgings of gluttony and self-indulgence.
St. John Cassian
Conferences, Conference Two: On Discernment no. 16; Paulist Press pg. 76, 5th century

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