Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-03-30
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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:

Matthew Simko-John Spillson-Maria Tzanakis-Emmanuel T. Yakumithis

THIS WEEK'S MEMORIAL SERVICE IS FOR: Andreas and Alexandra Koustoumbardis - 2 years

                                                                     May Their Memory Be Eternal

EPISTLE READERS ARE: Greek: Bill Plomaritis; English: Luminita Ellis

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY.

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

THIS WEEK'S COFFEE HOUR: "Do-nut" Forget Stewardship! Today's coffee hour is sponsored by the Stewardship Committee so that you "Do-nut" forget to make your Stewardship Pledge! Please join us after Church for donuts, coffee, and fellowship. If you have forgotten to make your Pledge, please "Do-nut" forget to make it today! Envelopes are available at the back of the church or the website is www.holytrinitytoledo.com/donate.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK: Robert Franks (Toledo) Perastika and a speedy recovery!

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Sunday, March 30th: GOYA Coffee Talk at Sip 4 PM, Pan Orthodox Lenten Vespers/Potluck at St. Elizabeth 6 PM 

Monday, March 31st: Great Compline 6 PM, Philoptochos Board Meeting 6 PM, Philoptochos General Meeting 7:15 PM

Tuesday, April 1st: Bible Study 10 AM, Hellenic Dancers Practice 6 PM

Wednesday, April 2nd: Presanctified Liturgy/Lenten Discussion 6 PM

Thursday, April 3rd: AHEPA 6:30 PM

Friday, April 4th: Confession 6 PM, Akathistos 7 PM

Sunday, April 6th: Monthly GOYA Meeting 12 PM, Greek Independence Day Parade 3 PM

Food Pantry Ministry: March update! Our church pantry is growing steadily.  We see new faces each month.  We have seen a real increase in the number of children that we serve. We served 71 households in February with a total number of 134 people in those families. 36 of those people were children. Giving to our pantry, with food or monetary donations, is a wonderful way to give to people-in-need during this Lenten period. Our current needed items are canned tuna, canned chicken, jelly, hearty soups. Thank you for all of your support!

The Daughters of Penelope are having their annual luminaries sale for the Holy Friday evening service.  The suggested donation is $5 per name for the deceased and $5 per family for the living, the deadline to submit the names is April 14th.  Call Marina Cooper at 419.343.2203 with any questions regarding this sale. 

Project Mexico Update: THANK YOU, Holy Trinity Community, for generously supporting the Project Mexico Team! Thanks to your prayers and donations, the team met its March 30 goal and paid its $10,800 registration fees! We still welcome donations to pay our van rental fee, van fuel costs, and participant airfare. If you would like to assist with any of these please contact Elainie (419.308.4341) or any team member. THANK YOU for joining our journey!

CONGRATULATIONS to Nikko Theodorou, who received a FOrCE (Forming Orthodox Christian Evangelists) Grant that pays half of his Project Mexico registration fees. May God bless his mission journey.

CONGRATULATIONS to Vasi Legakis, who received a FOrCE (Forming Orthodox Christian Evangelists) Grant that pays half of her Project Mexico registration fees. May God bless her mission journey.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Sunday School 3-5th grade classroom, who won the “Pennies for Project Mexico” challenge and received a donut party as their prize. The challenge raised $196.25, which will fund gifts for the St. Innocent Orphanage boys and the family for whom we build a home. Thank you to Dr. Sieben and the Sunday School teachers for supporting this mission fundraising project, and to Vasi, Nikko Theodorou, Lukia, and Pres. Jenny for coordinating. 

OUR 2025 STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN IS WELL UNDERWAY. If you haven’t turned in your pledge card, please do so. We had a successful 2024 Campaign - let’s do it again this year! Thank you so much for your continued support of our beloved Holy Trinity Cathedral.

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES - The Raftopoulos Scholarship is now available. Please call the Church Office for the application form.  Deadline is May 5th. 

Please add:  PHILOPTOCHOS SERVICE SCHOLARISHIP is now available.  Please contact Phyllis Manton for an application. [email protected] The deadline is April 30, 2025. 

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.

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, 2025. The District scholarship application is available online at www.bsf.buckeyedistrict11.org and will be due March 31, 2025.  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.

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): April this year is the month of Pascha. If you would care to donate yarn, please choose 4-ply yarn in different shades of red, the traditional color of Greek Easter Eggs, or any of your favorite Easter colors. We appreciate your contributions and thank you! our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 at 1 PM in the AHEPA Room of the Veronie Community Hall. "Come and see" what we do! For more information or questions, contact Maria Petros at (419) 473-2387 or Elena Perry at (419) 265-6275.

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: April 6th - Barbara Veronie - 1 year, John Veronie - 5 years; May 4th - Stratos Kourous - 40 Days; Konstantinos Tsapranis - 5 years

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode

Thou didst abolish death by Thy Cross; Thou didst open Paradise to the thief; Thou didst transform the myrrh-bearers' lamentation, and didst bid Thine Apostles to preach that Thou art risen, O Christ God, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Sun. of St. John Climacus in the Plagal Fourth Mode

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O John our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Seventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:1-10

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him." Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin, which had been on His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that He must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 6:13-20.

BRETHREN, when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore to himself, saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you." And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of St. John Climacus
The Reading is from Mark 9:17-31

At that time, a man came to Jesus kneeling and saying: "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able." And he answered them, "O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, "How long has he had this?" And he said, "From childhood. And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us." And Jesus said to him, "If you can! All things are possible to him who believes." Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!" And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again." And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, "He is dead." But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting." They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise."

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Saints and Feasts

March 30

Sunday of St. John Climacus

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on March 30, where his biography may be found. He is celebrated today because his book, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, is a sure guide to the ascetic life, written by a great man of prayer experienced in all forms of the monastic polity; it teaches the seeker after salvation how to lay a sound foundation for his struggles, how to detect and war against each of the passions, how to avoid the snares laid by the demons, and how to rise from the rudimental virtues to the heights of Godlike love and humility. It is held in such high esteem that it is universally read in its entirety in monasteries during the Great Fast.

March 30

John Climacus the Righteous, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent

This Saint gave himself over to the ascetical life from his early youth. Experienced both in the solitary life of the hermit and in the communal life of cenobitic monasticism, he was appointed Abbot of the Monastery at Mount Sinai and wrote a book containing thirty homilies on virtue. Each homily deals with one virtue, and progressing from those that deal with holy and righteous activity (praxis) unto those that deal with divine vision (theoria), they raise a man up as though by means of steps unto the height of Heaven. For this cause his work is called "The Ladder of Divine Ascent." The day he was made Abbot of Sinai, the Prophet Moses was seen giving commands to those who served at table. Saint John reposed in 603, at eighty years of age. See also the Fourth Sunday of the Fast.

March 30

Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, & Epaphroditos, the Apostles of the 70

March 30

Zacharias the New Martyr

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Seest thou how He now proceeds to lay beforehand in them the foundation of His doctrine about fasting? ... See, at any rate, how many blessings spring from them both. For he that is praying as he ought, and fasting, hath not many wants, and he that hath not many wants, cannot be covetous; ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17,4,5. B#54, pp.355,356., 4th Century

... he that is not covetous, will be also more disposed for almsgiving. He that fasts is light, and winged, and prays with wakefulness, and quenches his wicked lusts, and propitiates God, and humbles his soul when lifted up. Therefore even the apostles were almost always fasting.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 on Matthew 17,4,5. B#54, pp.355,356., 4th Century

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