Holy Trinity Church
Publish Date: 2025-05-18
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Holy Trinity Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (740) 282-9835
  • Fax:
  • (740) 282-2091
  • Street Address:

  • 300 South Fourth Street

  • Steubenville, OH 43952
  • Mailing Address:

  • P.O. Box 788

  • Steubenville, OH 43952


Contact Information




Services Schedule

Sunday Worship

Matins - 8:50 am
Divine Liturgy - 10am


Past Bulletins


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

When the women Disciples of the Lord had learned from the Angel the joyful message of the Resurrection and had rejected the ancestral decision, they cried aloud to the Apostles triumphantly: Death has been despoiled, Christ God has risen, granting His 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

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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Calendar of upcoming events

  • Parish Calendar

    May 18 to June 1, 2025

    Sunday, May 18

    40 Day Memorial for Flora Alexander, Luncheon to follow

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Liturgy

    Sunday, May 25

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Liturgy

    Sunday, June 1

    8:50AM Orthros

    10:00AM Liturgy

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Church News

Events

Prayer List-Hunter Adkins, Sophia Diamond, Georgiann Hart, Maria Kamarados, Joyce Locascio, Mary Jean Mahfood, Richard Mahfood, Mary McElhaney, Stella Parikakis, Irene Petrides, Alex Tressler, Dick Tressler, and Neove Young.

Pastries for Sunday Social Hour-There is a sign up sheet in the Social hall to donate pastries for Social Hour after church on Sundays.  Please sign up.

Sunday School-Anyone interested in teaching a Sunday School class, please contact Maria Matzorkis (740) 632-3752, or sign up on the schedule in the Social Hall.

Last weeks church attendance-58 Parishioners.

Coffee Hour-Luncheon hosted by the Alexander Family. 

Church Calendar for May 19th through May 25th...

Sunday, May 25th-8:50am Orthros, 10am Liturgy, Sunday of the Blind Man

Tuesday, May 20th-9am Festival baking resumes.

 PHILOPTOCHOS NEWS

2025 Greek Festival Yia Yias Closet…
This year Philoptochos Members Rana Mahfood-Levenderis and Marianne Balakos will be adding a Yia Yias closet to the Greek Festival.  Yia Yias Closet will be located upstairs in the Social Hall.  We are asking all Parishioners to please donate any of the following items if they have them.  Items can be given to Danielle, the church secretary, between 10am and 12pm during the week, or place in her office on Sundays.
Items needed:  Jewelry, Hard & Soft Back Books, Workable Small Kitchen Appliances, Sets of Dishes, Serving Pieces, Knick Knacks (No Chips), Purses, Lamps, Vases, Wall Art, Christmas Decorations, Radios, Clocks, Doilies, Wine, Whiskey and Water Glasses, Baskets, Decorative Pillows, Afghans and Throws, Hats, Scarfs, Purses.

Saturday, May 31st at 9:00am, we need assistance with Baklava, cutting and pouring syrup on already made trays.

2025 Gyro Sales will be held in September, October and February.

Thursday, September 4th at 6:30pm, next meeting. Location TBA.

We encourage ALL Holy Trinity Members Female and Male to join. 

 MORE UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS 

*Memorials can be scheduled at the wish of the family with the okay by Father Yanni.

*Greek class every Sunday following Liturgy at 12:30. Any questions, please contact Kalliopi at 740-707-3563.

*New office equipment needed:  We are taking donations for a new computer for the secretary's office and a new paper folding machine.  The combined cost is approximately $1500.  Please make checks out to Holy Trinity Church with memo of “office”, so we know where your donation will go towards. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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