Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2025-08-03
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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

EPISTLE READERS ARE:  English: Preston Schwartz    Greek:  Hari Bezios

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 IS SPONSORED ANONYMOUSLY. Please come for coffee, refreshments, and fellowship after Church today in our Veronie Community Hall.

IN THE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK: Basil Apostolou (Toledo Hospital)

                                        Perastika and a Speedy Recovery!

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY:

Sunday, August 3rd: Festival Workshop (Baklava Chocolate and Tiropita) 11:45 AM

Monday, August 4th: Dance Practice 6 PM, Parish Council 7 PM, Paraklesis 6 PM, GOYA Ministry Team Meeting 7 PM

Tuesday, August 5th: Vesperal Liturgy for Transfiguration 6 PM

Wednesday, August 6th: Paraklesis 6 PM

Friday, August 8th: Paraklesis 6 PM

Sunday, August 10th: Festival Workshop (Galaktobouriko) 11:45 AM

July Pantry Update:  Our Pantry organizers have noticed a sharp decline in food items available from government-subsidized agencies. We are purchasing more items ourselves and are relying more on monetary and food donations from our parishioners. WE NEED YOU!!! Please donate items.  The most needed items this month are peanut butter, boxed (shelf stable) milk, tuna, and canned meat. Thank you for your generosity! 

Project Mexico Update: Thanks to your faithful prayers and generous support, our Project Mexico team, in collaboration with four Project Mexico interns and a fantastic team of five from Rochester, NY, built a home for a family of four in Rosarito, Mexico. Glory to God! In the coming weeks we will share photos, videos, and testimonials, but in the meantime invite you to ask us about our trip. More importantly, think about joining us in 2026 – we’re already planning!

STEWARDSHIP:  We’re in the eighth month of this year’s Stewardship Campaign.  It’s also the start of summer and vacations.  Are you current with your pledge?  If you are..we thank you! If you aren’t.. please catch up.. we need everyone’s support to make this a successful campaign.   Have a safe, restful, and blessed summer.

Attention: Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): Q: Who thinks about yarn in the summer? 

The members of WHWH! We hope you will too, especially if you frequent garage, yard, or rummage sales. 'Tis the season! Remember, 4-ply yarn works best for our needs, but we accept whatever you bring. Choose bright, fun colors! Let nature & summer activities inspire your choices. Think of flowers, fruits, vegetables, fireworks, the beach, or the sunrises/sunsets of the season. Thank you! Our summer meetings have been suspended due to festival workshops and family vacations. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM in the AHEPA Room of the Veronie Community Hall. For more information, contact Maria Petros at (419) 473-2387 or Elena Perry (419) 265-6275. 

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR: November 30th and December 14th. 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: August 10th - Demetra Karas - 14 years, Peter Karas (Trisagion) - 41 years; August 24th - Tom Manton - 1 year; August 31st - Anthepe Jakubowski - 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.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Grave Mode

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.
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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. 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 First Letter to the Corinthians 1:10-17.

Brethren, I appeal to you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispos and Gaius; lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Gospel Reading

8th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 14:14-22

At that time, Jesus saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.

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Saints and Feasts

August 03

8th Sunday of Matthew

August 03

Isaacius, Dalmatus, & Faustus, Ascetics of the Dalmation Monastery

Of these, Saint Isaacius is celebrated also on May 30. He became a monk at an early age and was a worker of every virtue; a zealot for the Orthodox Faith, he was also deemed worthy of the gift of prophecy. The Saint dwelt in a small hut near Constantinople. When Valens the Arian marched against the Goths, who were at the Danube River, this righteous one went out himself to meet the Emperor and, taking in hand the reins of the Emperor's horse, said to him with boldness that God had incited the barbarians to come against him, since he himself had incited many to speak against God in blasphemy, and had driven God's true worshippers out of the divine houses of prayer. Furthermore, he told him, if he ceased fighting against God by means of heresy and returned the good shepherds (that is, the Orthodox bishops) to the flock of Christ, he would easily gain the victory over his enemies. However, if he did not desist from these things, nor have God as his ally, at the very outset of the battle both he and his army would certainly be destroyed. "Learn from experience," he said, "that it is hard to kick against the pricks. Thou shalt not return, and this expedition will be destroyed." But the Emperor became angry and had the righteous one locked in prison that he might punish him and put him to death on his return after he conquered the barbarians. But he was utterly defeated and was burned alive in a certain village in the year 378 (Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Eccl. Hist., ch. 4: 31-32). When his surviving soldiers returned from the war, wishing to tempt the Saint, they came to him and said, "Prepare to make thy defense before the Emperor, who is coming to fulfil what he spoke against thee." But the Saint answered, "It has already been seven days that I smelled the stink of his bones, which were burned in the fire." Thus the righteous one was released from prison. All marveled because of his prophecy, and he became even more wondrous by means of the zeal he displayed in behalf of Orthodoxy in 381, when the Second Ecumenical Council was convoked. After this, a monastery was built in Constantinople for him, and he piously shepherded those struggling with him in asceticism. Having served as an example of the monastic life for them, he reposed in peace about the end of the fourth century, leaving Dalmatus as his successor.

As for Saint Dalmatus, he was at first a soldier in the second division of the soldiers known as the Scholarii. Later, however, he forsook all things and taking his son Faustus, went to the above-mentioned monastery of Saint Isaacius, where he donned the monastic habit. Through his virtue he became venerable in the sight of all. He was present at the Third Ecumenical Council that was convoked in Ephesus in 431, and there displayed his zeal for Orthodoxy against Nestorius. The Council elected him Archimandrite of the monasteries in Constantinopie. Having lived for more than eighty years, he reposed in the Lord.

August 03

Salome the Holy Myrrhbearer

August 03

Theoctistus the Wonderworker

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Wisdom of the Fathers

And another thing too we learn, the self-restraint of the disciples which they practised in necessary things, and how little they accounted of food.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

For being twelve, they had five loaves only and two fishes; so secondary to them were the things of the body: so did they cling to the things spiritual only. And not even that little did they hold fast, but gave up even it when asked.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

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