Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-01-26
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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

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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


[email protected] | 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:

Dr. Dean C. Kopan-Debbie Morris-Pete Papadimos-Steve Papadimos

THIS WEEK'S MEMORIAL IS FOR: Sophie Paterakis - 3 years

                                               May Her Memory Be Eternal.

EPISTLE READERS ARE: Greek: Phyllis Manton; English: Maria Cook

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Emmanuel and Kelly Yakumithis, in honor of their daughter, Elena, who would have turned 21 on January 25th. May Her Memory Be Eternal.

THE PROSFORA, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered today by the Paterakis Family, Despina Apostolou, and Dr. Susan Sieben. Thank you and God Bless you.

THIS WEEK'S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: The Family of Sophie Paterakis. Please join them after Church in our Veronie Community Hall for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK: Becky Skiades (St. Anne's)

                                            Perastika and a speedy recovery!

AFTER LITURGY: We will be having our annual Greek Letters Program, put on by our Greek School. Please join us as we celebrate the Greek language and a big thank you to Dawn and Joyce Anagnos for their hard work running our Greek School!

FOOD PANTRY: We are having our monthly food pantry on Tuesday, January 28th. Debbie Paterakis, Linda Dionyssiou, and Lori Kamalaris will need help setting up the pantry today after Church. Please help if you are able. Many hands make light work!

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Tuesday, January 28th: Food Pantry 10 AM, Warm Hands to Warm Hearts 1 PM

Wednesday, January 29th: Bible Study 7 PM

Thursday, January 30th: Three Heirarchs Feast Day Orthros 9 AM, Liturgy 10 AM

Friday, January 31st: YAL Gathering/Dinner 6:30 PM

Sunday, February 2nd: Hope and Joy Gathering 12 PM

Project Mexico: Time is now limited to join the Project Mexico 2025 team! Participants must register by February 15. Join our team of 12 to build a home for a deserving family at Project Mexico, July 17-23. Visit https://www.projectmexico.org/volunteerHB25 to register for Project Mexico 2025. Be sure to choose Holy Trinity Toledo as your team. Have questions or need help registering? Talk to Elainie  Lillios([email protected]) or Michael Thompson.

AHEPA/Daughters Scholarships – The AHEPA/Daughters Buckeye District scholarship application is now available for submission and is available at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org. Submission deadline is March 31, 2025. The local and AHEPA National scholarships will be available soon. 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.

Pantry Update: Happy New Year Holy Trinity family! Our most needed items at this time are: Canned Tuna, jelly, cereal, and shelf-stable milk. We gladly accept any nonperishable food donations as well as monetary donations that will enable us to shop for you! Thank you!

Orthodox On Purpose Retreat: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church of Ann Arbor invites you to spend a day with Father Barnabas Powell learning what it means to be Orthodox on Purpose.  This retreat will focus on what it means to be an Orthodox Christian – specifically in America – and why and how we cannot miss the opportunity to share our faith with as many people as possible. Please see the flyer for more details.

OUR 2025 STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN IS NOW UNDERWAY.  If you haven’t already done so, please turn in your pledge card. Have you fulfilled your 2024 commitment?   If you haven’t, please do so as soon as you’re able.We had a successful 2024 – let’s try to do even better in 2025!  Thank you for your continued support of our beloved Cathedral.

AHEPA Super Bowl Blocks - The Super Bowl blocks are now available!  We will be selling the block tickets for $15 a square with 100 blocks available.  First and third quarter winners receive $125, half time winner receives $250 and the final score wins $500.  The officers will have tickets after Sunday Liturgies or you can call Tony Capranica at 419-540-1150 for tickets.

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): The winter months are our busy season. As always, we are in need of yarn. Let the happy holiday colors inspire you. Besides yarn, we are in SERIOUS NEED OF SEWERS. Contact us if you can help. Due to the holidays, our December meeting is cancelled. Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 28th, at 1:00 PM in the Veronie Community Hall. For questions or more information, please contact Maria Petros at (419) 473-2387 or Elena Perry at (419) 265-6275.

Young people interested in Project Mexico, READ ON! -- The FOrCE (Forming Orthodox Christian Evangelists) Leadership 100 Grant Fund for Homebuilding Grant is an exciting opportunity for those interested in joining Project Mexico at NO COST! This grant introduces participants to the diverse opportunities available at Hellenic College Holy Cross, as well as Project Mexico's enriching summer internship program, helping you explore future paths in the Church and service. This grant is available exclusively to individuals who are not currently attending Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC) and who have not received this grant in the past. For more information about the FOrCE Grant and to apply, visit https://www.projectmexico.org/force-initiative

Greek School in person: We would like to know if there is interest in once again starting a Greek School which will meet in person at the Cathedral.  Some of you signed up in September but we misplaced the signup sheet.  Another one is in the hall.  Please sign up if you are interested.  Sofia, our choir director, would like to start Greek School in January.

Byzantine Music Fellowship continues! All are welcome to join this chanting ministry that sings Paraklesis services to the Theotokos on the third Friday of each month. The group will rehearse the third Tuesday of each month, 7-8pm in the Veronie Center. Contact Elainie Lillios at [email protected] with questions.

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR: August 24th & 31st. 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.

Upcoming Memorials: February 23rd - Faye Grevis - 1 year; March 2nd - James Veronie - 3 years; March 9th - Dr. Don E. Stathulis - 20 years

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    Project Mexico Flyer

    Project Mexico Flyer

    Come build a house for a family in need with Holy Trinity!

    Greek Kitchen Spring Order Form

    Greek Kitchen Spring Order Form

    Please see flyer to place your orders for Greek Kitchen!

    Orthodox On Purpose Retreat

    Orthodox On Purpose Retreat

    St. Nicholas Orthodox Church of Ann Arbor invites you to spend a day with Father Barnabas Powell learning what it means to be Orthodox on Purpose. This retreat will focus on what it means to be an Orthodox Christian – specifically in America – and why and how we cannot miss the opportunity to share our faith with as many people as possible. Click on the flyer for more details.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Mode

Angelic powers were above Thy tomb, and they that guarded Thee became as dead. And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate Body. Thou hast despoiled Hades and wast not tried thereby. Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life. O Thou Who didst arise from the dead, Lord, glory be to Thee.

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

Ninth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:19-31

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in His side, I will not believe." Eight days later, His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see My hands; and put out your hand, and place it in My side; do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and My God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Second Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy 4:9-15.

Timothy, my son, the saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance. For to this end we toil and suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.

Gospel Reading

15th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 19:1-10

At that time, Jesus was passing through Jericho. And there was a man named Zacchaios; he was a chief collector, and rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaios, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today." So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it they all murmured, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner." And Zacchaios stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold." And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost."

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Saints and Feasts

January 26

15th Sunday of Luke

January 26

Xenophone & his Companions

This Saint, a wealthy nobleman of Constantinople, was filled with piety toward God. He had two sons, Arcadius and John, whom he sent to Beirut to study law. But they were shipwrecked during their voyage; barely saved, they forsook all things and departed for Palestine. Saint Xenophon and his wife Mary, ignorant of what had happened, went in search of their sons. On finding them in Jerusalem, dressed in the habit of monks, they also took up the monastic life. And thus, having completed their lives in holiness, they departed for the Lord about the beginning of the sixth century. Saint Xenophon and his sons reposed at Saint Sabbas Monastery, and Mary at the Monastery of Saint Theodosius.

January 26

Symeon the Elder of Mount Sinai

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Wisdom of the Fathers

For Christ's presence is like that of some life-giving, scented balsam which restores health, enriches life and gives savor to the soul, the thoughts, the words of a man. In brief, distance from Christ means corruption and death, and closeness to Him means salvation and life.
Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic
Prolog, 4 February

Christ is the salvation that comes, and Zacchaeus is the house to which He comes.
Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic
Prolog, 4 February

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