Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-02-16
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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:

Kathy Chaka-Andrew Cleaver-Gene Haberman-Dr. Dean Kopan

THIS WEEK'S MEMORIAL IS FOR: Maria Irene Warner - 40 Days

                                                 May Her Memory Be Eternal

EPISTLE READERS ARE: Greek: Pete Kanios; English: JoAnn Cook

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: The Ted Arvanitis Family, in loving memory of Joanne Arvanitis. May Her Memory Be Eternal.

THE PROSFORA, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered today by the family of Maria Irene Warner and Kris Reder. Thank you and God Bless you.

THIS WEEK'S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY. Please come after Church to our Veronie Community Hall for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK: Georgia Rongakis (Flower)

                                               Perastika and a Speedy Recovery!

Attention All Philoptochos Ladies: Please wear red today, Sunday, February 16, 2025. Please show your support for women's heart health and wear red to church! We will get a group photo at coffee hour, so be ready!

Philoptochos: Philoptochos Memberships are due! If you are interested in joining, please contact Maria Kopan. I Thank you, genuinely, for all of the wonderful philanthropy you all do for Holy Trinity and the community of Toledo!

Daughters of Penelope: Today, after Liturgy, the Daughters of Penelope will be selling chocolate treats in the Veronie Community Hall! Items featured will be chocolate covered pretzels, fudge, candy hearts, cake, and more! Proceeds will benefit the Daughters of Penelope Scholarship Fund. 

Old Books and Tapes: In the Veronie Community Hall, we have a few tables of old books and VHS tapes. Please, you are welcome to take anything you like! The items will remain on the tables for one more week, after which they will be donated to a used book store.

Greek School: Thank you to both our teacher and students for their engagement with the new Greek School class! A reminder that class is after Sunday School/Coffee Hour every Sunday until 12:45 PM. After the kids are done with their class, the adult class follows right after.

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, February 17th: Church Office Closed in Observance of Presidents' Day

Tuesday, February 18th: Bible Study 10 AM

Wednesday, February 19th: Bible Study 7 PM

Thursday, February 20th: Young at Heart 12 PM, Aurora House Cooking Class 5:30 PM

Friday, February 21st: Confession 5 PM, Paraklesis 6 PM, Young Adult Dinner and Discussion 7 PM

Saturday, February 22nd: 1st Saturday of Souls Orthros 9 AM, Liturgy 10 AM

Sunday, February 23rd: GOYA Coffee Talk 4 PM

Holy Trinity Philoptochos Lenten Retreat & Service Project Save the Date: Saturday March 15 from 9:30am – 2pm.  This year's speaker: Presvytera Jenny Legakis on the theme “Peace and Repentance”. Service Project: Baby Shower forthe NORF-End Neighbors. More Information Coming Soon!

We are excited to announce Pennies for Project Mexico! This is a fundraiser for Holy Trinity's Mission team to Mexico. This is a friendly competition and the winning Sunday School classroom gets a donut party! Please see the flyer for more details and bring all your change on Sunday!

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!

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.

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): February is an extra time to show our love for others. If you are able to donate, WHWH would love to receive 4-ply yarn in bright, eye-catching colors. The 4-ply yarn is best for creating our lap blankets made with love. Your contributions make a difference and we thank you! Our February meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, at 1 PM in the Veronie Community Hall. We would love for you to join us! For questions or more information, please contact Maria Petros at (419) 473-2387 or Elena Perry at (419) 265-6275.

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 10th, 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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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode

Although the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers guarded Your most pure body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, giving life to the world. For this reason, the heavenly powers cried out to you, O Giver of Life: Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your kingdom! Glory to Your dispensation, only Lover of Mankind!

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode

O Father, foolishly I ran away from Your glory, and in sin, squandered the riches You gave me. Wherefore, I cry out to You with the voice of the Prodigal, "I have sinned before You Compassionate Father. Receive me in repentance and take me as one of Your hired servants."
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

First Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Matthew 28:16-20

At that time, the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Him they worshiped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age. Amen."

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 First Letter to the Corinthians 6:12-20.

Brethren, "all things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh." But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body and in your spirit which belong to God.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Prodigal Son
The Reading is from Luke 15:11-32

The Lord said this parable: "There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.' But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, 'Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!' And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

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Saints and Feasts

February 16

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Through the parable of today's Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God's compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and Pharisee so that, seeing in the person of the Prodigal Son our own wretched condition -- inasmuch as we are sunken in sin, far from God and His Mysteries -- we might at last come to our senses and make haste to return to Him by repentance during these holy days of the Fast.

Furthermore, those who have wrought many great iniquities, and have persisted in them for a long time, oftentimes fall into despair, thinking that there can no longer be any forgiveness for them; and so being without hope, they fall every day into the same and even worse iniquities. Therefore, the divine Fathers, that they might root out the passion of despair from the hearts of such people, and rouse them to the deeds of virtue, have set the present parable at the forecourts of the Fast, to show them the surpassing goodness of God's compassion, and to teach them that there is no sin -- no matter how great it may be -- that can overcome at any time His love for man.

February 16

Pamphilios the Martyr & his Companions

This Martyr contested during the reign of Maximian, in the year 290, in Caesarea of Palestine, and was put to death by command of Firmilian, the Governor of Palestine. His fellow contestants' names are Valens, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, and five others from Egypt: Elias, Jeremias, Esaias, Samuel, and Daniel. Their martyrdom is recorded in Book VIII, ch. 11 of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, called The Martyrs of Palestine.

February 16

Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople

February 16

Romanos the Younger

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Thank God every day with your whole heart for having given to you life according to His image and likeness - an intelligently free and immortal life...Thank Him also for again daily bestowing life upon you, who have fallen an innumerable multitude of times, by your own free will, through sins, from life unto death, and that He does so as soon as you only say from your whole heart: 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before Thee!' (Luke 15:18).
St. John of Kronstadt
My Life in Christ: Part 1; Holy Trinity Monastery pgs. 104-105, 19th century

But if he had despaired of his life, and, ... had remained in the foreign land, he would not have obtained what he did obtain, but would have been consumed with hunger, and so have undergone the most pitiable death: ...
St. John Chrysostom
AN EXHORTATION TO THEODORE AFTER HIS FALL, 4th Century

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