Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-04-06
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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:

Kristin Dzikowski-Kathy Chaka-Andrew Cleaver-Gene Haberman

THIS WEEK'S MEMORIAL SERVICE IS FOR: Barbara Veronie - 1 year and John Veronie - 5 years

                                                                     May Their Memory Be Eternal

EPISTLE READERS ARE: Greek: Basil Apostolou; English: Frank Reder

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: The Veronie Family, in loving memory of John and Barbara Veronie. May Their Memory Be Eternal.

THE PROSFORA, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered today by the Veronie Family, Maria Petros, and Maria Kopan. Thank you and God Bless you.

THIS WEEK'S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: The Veronie Family, in loving memory of John and Barbara. May Their Memory Be Eternal. Please join them after Church in our Veronie Community Hall for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship.

This week, our Warm Hands to Warm Hearts ministry will be donating their handmade blankets to those in need! Before they do, we will have a Blessing of the Blankets today before they are distributed. Thank you to all of the ladies for their hard work and to you for your yarn donations!

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Sunday, April 6th: Greek Independence Day Parade 3 PM

Monday, April 7th: Great Compline 6 PM, Parish Council 7 PM, Monthly GOYA Meeting (Zoom) 8 PM

Tuesday, April 8th: Bible Study 10 AM

Wednesday, April 9th: Presanctified Liturgy/Lenten Discussion 6 PM

Thursday, April 10th: Men's Ministry 6:30 PM

Friday, April 11th: Greek Kitchen Pick-Up 11 AM

Saturday, April 12th: Saturday of Lazarus Orthros 9 AM, Divine Liturgy 10 AM, Greek Kitchen Pick-Up 11 AM, Daughters of Penelope Bake Sale Pick-Up 11 AM

Sunday, April 13th: Palm Sunday Orthros 9 AM, Divine Liturgy 10 AM, Greek Kitchen Pick-Up 11 AM, Daughters of Penelope Bake Sale Pick-Up 11 AM, AHEPA Fish Luncheon 12 PM, Bridegroom Service 7 PM

Food Pantry Ministry: April update!  As you all know, government funding cuts are affecting the number of items that we receive from Food Banks.  For all of you who routinely donate food or money to our Pantry, we truly thank you.  For those of you who rarely or never have donated, please consider donating.  It is a gift that is so needed and appreciated by our neighbors.  This month, we are asking for: Soups with meat, jelly, canned fruit, cereals. Thank you, Holy Trinity!

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: May 4th - Stratos Kourous - 40 Days; Konstantinos Tsapranis - 5 years

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Sun. of St. Mary of Egypt in the Plagal Fourth Mode

In thee the image was preserved with exactness, O Mother; for taking up thy cross, thou didst follow Christ, and by thy deeds thou didst teach us to overlook the flesh, for it passeth away, but to attend to the soul since it is immortal. Wherefore, O righteous Mary, thy spirit rejoiceth with the Angels.

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 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

Eighth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:11-18

At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and she told them that He had said these things to her.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14.

BRETHREN, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
The Reading is from Mark 10:32-45

At that time, Jesus took his twelve disciples, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles; and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise." And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him, and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" And they said to him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant of James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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Saints and Feasts

April 06

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on April 1, where her life is recorded. Since the end of the holy Forty Days is drawing nigh, it has been appointed for this day also, so that if we think it hard to practice a little abstinence forty days, we might be roused by the heroism of her who fasted in the wilderness forty-seven years; and also that the great loving-kindness of God, and His readiness to receive the repentant, might be demonstrated in very deed.

April 06

Eutychios, Patriarch of Constantinople

Born in Theia Kome of Phrygia, Eutychius was the son of illustrious parents, from whom he received a pious upbringing. He studied in Constantinople, and became a monk in a certain monastery of Amasia. In 552 he was chosen Patriarch of New Rome, but was exiled in 565 as a result of the machinations of the Origenists. In 577 he was restored to his throne and reposed on April 6, 582.

April 06

120 Martyrs of Persia

April 06

Gregory of Sinai

April 06

Platonis the Nun of Nisibis

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Before He humbled Himself, only the angels knew him. After He humbled Himself, all human nature knew Him. You see how His humbling of Himself did not make Him have less but produced countless benefits, countless deeds of virtue, and made His glory shine forth with greater brightness? God wants for nothing and has need of nothing. Yet, when He humbled Himself, He produced such great good, increased His household, and extended His kingdom. Why, then, are you afraid that you will become less if you humble yourself?
St. John Chrysostom
On the Incomprehensible Nature of God. 8.46-47. Taken from: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol: Mark. Intervarsity Press, 2005, p. 143.

But let no man be troubled at the apostles being in such an imperfect state. For not yet was the cross accomplished, not yet the grace of the Spirit given. But if thou wouldest learn their virtue, notice them after these things, and thou wilt see them superior to every passion.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century

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