Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-04-27
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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 Kopan-Debbie Morris-Pete Papadimos-Steve Papadimos

Welcome Father Christopher Abell! Thank you for serving with us today.

EPISTLE READERS ARE: English: Daniel Ellis; Greek: Pete Kanios

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: The Family of Ilias Bekos. May His Memory Be Eternal.

THE PROSFORA, the Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered today by Helen Matthews and Anthe Christides. Thank you and God Bless you.

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

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS PAST WEEK: Liberty Elmer (St. Anne) and Steve Hartford (Toledo) Perastika and a speedy recovery!

HOLY WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Monday, April 28th: Pan Orthodox Calendar Meeting at St. George 6 PM

Tuesday, April 29th: Food Pantry 10 AM, Warm Hands to Warm Hearts 1 PM, Orthodoxy 101 6 PM

Wednesday, April 30th: Bible Study 7 PM

Thursday, May 1st: Daughters of Penelope 6 PM, AHEPA 6:30 PM

Sunday, May 4th: Seeker Sessions 12 PM

High School Seniors and Parents: First, congratulations on your pending graduation! We are
very proud of you. Please remember that your community offers a few scholarships. Please see the
scholarship information below. If you have any questions, please let us know!

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

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

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.

Orthodoxy 101: Orthodoxy 101 begins this Tuesday at 6 pm. We will meet in the small meeting
room off of summit. To register please go to https://www.holytrinitytoledo.com/orthodoxy-101/.

Seeker Sessions: Seeker sessions are offered to you by our Outreach ministry. These sessions
are an opportunity to ask questions learn more about Orthodoxy.  They will meet during coffee hour
in the small meeting room off of Summit.  The sessions will be facilitated by Father Larry, Mr. Zach,
and members of the Outreach Ministry.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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; June 1st - Christina Temple - 1 year, George Bekos - 1 year; June 15th- Irene Veronie - 1 year

 

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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.

Apolytikion for Thomas Sun. in the Grave Mode

Whilst the tomb was sealed, Thou, O Life, didst shine forth from the grave, O Christ God; and whilst the doors were shut, Thou didst come unto Thy disciples, O Resurrection of all, renewing through them an upright Spirit in us according to Thy great mercy.

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

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. Fourth Mode. Psalm 146.5;134.3.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power.
Verse: Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 5:12-20.

In those days, many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high honor. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed. But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison. But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, "Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life."

Gospel Reading

Thomas Sunday
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.

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Saints and Feasts

April 27

Thomas Sunday

Though the doors were shut at the dwelling where the disciples were gathered for fear of the Jews on the evening of the Sunday after the Passover, our Saviour wondrously entered and stood in their midst, and greeted them with His customary words, "Peace be unto you." Then He showed unto them His hands and feet and side; furthermore, in their presence, He took some fish and a honeycomb and ate before them, and thus assured them of His bodily Resurrection. But Thomas, who was not then present with the others, did not believe their testimony concerning Christ's Resurrection, but said in a decisive manner, "Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe." Wherefore after eight days, that is, on this day, when the disciples were again gathered together and Thomas was with them, the Lord Jesus came while the doors were shut, as He did formerly. Standing in their midst, He said, "Peace be unto you"; then He said to Thomas, "Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not unbelieving, but believing."

And Thomas, beholding and examining carefully the hands and side of the Master, cried out with faith, "My Lord and my God." Thus he clearly proclaimed the two natures - human and divine - of the God-man (Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-29).

This day is called Antipascha (meaning "in the stead of Pascha," not "in opposition to Pascha") because with this day, the first Sunday after Pascha, the Church consecrates every Sunday of the year to the commemoration of Pascha, that is, the Resurrection.

April 27

Symeon the Holy Martyr

Symeon was a first cousin of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was the son of Clopas (or Cleopas, also called Alphaeus), the brother of Joseph the Betrothed. He became the second Bishop of Jerusalem, as a successor to James the Brother of God. He ended his life when he was crucified during the reign of Trajan, in 107, at the age of 120.

April 27

Martyrs Emmanuel, Theodore, George, Michael and the other George of Samothrace

April 27

Eulogios the Innkeeper of Constantinople

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Wisdom of the Fathers

The Lord stoops to the level even of our feeble understanding. He works a miracle of His invisible power in order to satisfy the doubts of unbelieving minds.
St. Hilary of Poitiers
On the Trinity, 1.20. Taken from: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol: John. Intervarsity Press, 2007, p. 369.

For great is the dignity of the priests. ... And hold them very exceedingly in honor; for you indeed care about your own affairs, and if you order them well, you give no account for others; ...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 86, 4th Century

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