Holy Trinity Cathedral
Publish Date: 2026-08-30
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Parish News
This Week At Holy Trinity
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Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Diakonia Newsletter

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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

Contact Information

Cathedral Dean: Father Jon McClish


[email protected] | 419-243-9189

Services Schedule

Sunday Services: Orthros-8:45 AM, Divine Liturgy-10:00 AM

Weekday Services: Orthros-9:00 AM, Divine Liturgy-10:00 AM

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Parish News

Holy Trinity’s Mission Statement:  Proclaim the gospel of Christ to worship and glorify God, by
spreading the teachings of the Greek Orthodox faith, to encourage all members to participate through its ministries, educational programs, and community outreach while serving God, our community and humanity with love.

13TH SUNDAY OF MATTHEW

Today's Commemorations: Apodosis of the Feast of the Forerunner

Alexander, John, and Paul, Patriarchs of Constantinople

The Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs of Serbia

Phantinos, the Righteous of Calabria

The 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes

6 Martyrs of Melitene

The Holy New Martyrs of Serbia

Fiacre the Hermit of Meaux

Guests

Welcome to our Holy Trinity Parish! Please sign up with the Welcome Committee in the Narthex so we may welcome you to our parish. You are also invited to join us for Fellowship Hour in our social hall, which immediately follows the Divine Liturgy. Please note that Holy Communion is reserved for prepared Orthodox Christians. Non-Orthodox guests are welcome to and encouraged to receive a blessing from the priest during the Communion distribution. They are also welcome to receive the Antidoro (Blessed Bread), which is distributed at the end of the Divine Liturgy.

PARISH COUNCIL MEMBERS USHERING TODAY:

Debbie Morris - Pete Papadimos - Steve Papadimos - Frank Reder

EPISTLE READERS ARE: English: Zachary Heller   Greek:  Charis Bezios

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: John Patroulis, in honor of his family members who have fallen asleep in the Lord. May Their Memory Be Eternal!

THE PROSFORA, The Eucharistic Bread, prepared on behalf of the worshipping faithful, was offered today by James and Maria Heller, in honor of Zachary's Name Day, along with Sophia Spillson and Kris Reder. Thank you and God bless you!

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

CALLING ALL BAKERS AND HELPING HANDS: This year’s festival is right around the corner! These workshops support our church community, so please come out to help in making this year’s festival another success! Our first workshops of the year have been huge successes! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped!  Please see the flyer for details.

Holy Trinity Food Pantry August Update: Hello Holy Trinity! Our pantry continues to provide a huge variety of fresh, canned and frozen food items, as well as hygiene items, to our neighbors. We are feeling so blessed by the continued donations of our parishioners, and we first thank God and also thank all of you. The next pantry will be held on Tuesday, September 29th. We are no longer accepting clothing. This month, our most needed items are canned chicken, cereal, canned hearty soups, and condiments (ketchup, salt, pepper, hot sauce, and spices). If you are available to help on distribution days, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

STEWARDSHIP: We are in the eighth month of our 2026 Campaign! Are you current with your pledge? If not, please do your best to catch up! Please contact the church office with any questions.

Warm Hands to Warm Hearts (WHWH): Question: Who thinks of yarn in the summer? Answer: The members of Warm Hands to Warm Hearts. We hope you will too, especially if you frequent garage, yard, rummage, or estate sales. Remember, clean, bright, colorful 4-ply yarn works best for our needs. Please consider donating a skein or two when you visit our table on Sunday, September 27th, for Ministry Sunday. We would appreciate it! Thank you! Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 at 1 PM in the AHEPA Room of the Veronie Community Hall. We hope you will, "Join our mix in 2026!" For questions or more information, contact Maria Petros at 419-473-2387 or Elena Perry at 419-265-6275.

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR: April 11th, April 18th, and May 30th. 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: September 13th - Panayiota Marangou (40 days); September 20th - Gus Georgakopoulos (1 year)



This Week At Holy Trinity

  • Calendar

    August 31 to September 13, 2026

    Monday, August 31

    6:00PM Dance Practice (All Ages)

    Tuesday, September 1

    9:00AM Ecclesiastical New Year Orthros/Liturgy

    Thursday, September 3

    6:00PM Daughters of Penelope Meeting

    Sunday, September 6

    8:45AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, September 7

    Office Closed for the Holiday

    Tuesday, September 8

    9:00AM Nativity of the Theotokos Orthros/Divine Liturgy

    6:00PM Dance Practice

    Thursday, September 10

    10:00AM Men's Ministry/AHEPA Souvlaki Skewering

    Friday, September 11

    Greek Festival

    Sunday, September 13

    8:45AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy



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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Mode

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Apodosis of the Forerunner in the Second Mode

The memory of the just is celebrated with hymns of praise, but the Lord's testimony is sufficient for thee, O Forerunner; for thou hast proved to be truly even more venerable than the Prophets, since thou was granted to baptize in the running waters Him Whom they proclaimed. Wherefore, having contested for the truth, thou didst rejoice to announce the good tidings even to those in Hades: that God hath appeared in the flesh, taking away the sin of the world and granting us great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life."


Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 16:13-24.

Brethren, be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints; I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicos, because they have made up for your absence; for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men. The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Gospel Reading

13th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 21:33-42

The Lord said this parable, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them, saying 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?'"



Saints and Feasts

August 30

13th Sunday of Matthew

August 30

Apodosis of the Feast of the Forerunner

August 30

Alexander, John, and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

Saint Alexander was sent to the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea as the delegate of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Constantinople (see June 4), to whose throne he succeeded in the year 325. When Arius had deceitfully professed allegiance to the Council of Nicaea, Saint Alexander, knowing his guile, refused to receive him into communion; Arius' powerful partisans threatened that they would use force to bring Arius into the communion of the Church the following day. Saint Alexander prayed fervently that God might spare the Church; and as Arius was in a privy place relieving nature, his bowels gushed forth with an effusion of blood, and the arch-heresiarch died the death of Judas. Saint Alexander was Bishop from 325 until 337, when he was succeeded by Saint Paul the Confessor, who died a martyr's death at the hands of the Arians (see Nov. 6). The Saint John commemorated here appears to be the one who was Patriarch during the years 562-577, surnamed Scholasticus, who is also commemorated on February 21. He was from Antioch, where he had been a lawyer (scholasticus); he was made presbyter, then was sent to Constantinople as representative (apocrisiarius) of the Patriarch of Antioch, and was appointed Patriarch of Constantinople by the Emperor Justinian. Saint Paul was Bishop of Constantinople during the years 687 - 693, in the reign of Emperor Justinian II, and presided over the Quinisext Council in 692.

August 30

The Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs of Serbia

The Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs of Serbia: The Saints commemorated on this day are: Sabbas, First Archbishop and enlightener of Serbia (see Jan. 14); Arsenius, his successor, a great hierarch and wonderworker; Sabbas II, son of Saint Stephen, the first-crowned King of Serbia; Nicodemus, Abott of Hilandar, later Archbishop of Serbia; Joannicius, Archbishop, later Patriarch from 1346 to 1349; Patriarch Ephraim, an ascetic, who crowned Prince Lazarus, and later left the patriarchate to live in solitude; Spyridon, Ephraim's successor, who reposed in 1388; Macarius, who printed many church books in Serbia and abroad, was very zealous in renovating and adorning churches, and reposed in 1574; Gabriel, Archbishop, who took part in the Church Council of Moscow during the patriarchate of Nicon, for which the Turks accused him of treason and hanged him in Prusa in the year 1656. Also commemorated are Eustathius, James, Daniel, Sabbas III, Gregory, Cyril (Patriarch), John, Maximus, and Nicon. Many of them labored in asceticism on the Holy Mountain, and all were "good and faithful servants, good labourers in the vineyard of the Lord".

August 30

Phantinos the Righteous of Calabria

August 30

16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes

August 30

6 Martyrs of Melitene

August 30

The Holy New Martyrs of Serbia

August 30

Fiacre the Hermit of Meaux



Wisdom of the Fathers

Many things does He intimate by this parable, God's providence, which had been exercised towards them from the first; their murderous disposition from the beginning; that nothing had been omitted of whatever pertained to a heedful care of them;...
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century

And observe also both His great care, and the excessive idleness of these men for what pertained to the husbandmen, He Himself did ... and He left little for them to do; to take care of what was there, and to preserve what was given to them.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 68 on Matthew 21, 4th Century



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