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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.

SUNDAY OF THE SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL

Today's Commemorations: Philip the Apostle of the 70, One of the Seven Deacons

Theophanes the Confessor, Bishop of Nicaea

Holy Martyrs Zenais and Philonilla

Nectarios, Arsakios, Sisinios and Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarchs of Constantinople

Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking

Our Righteous Father Kenneth, Founder of the Monastery of Aghaboe in Ireland

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:

Mike George - Kristin Dzikowski - Kathy Chaka - Andrew Cleaver

EPISTLE READERS ARE: English: Jackson Simko Greek: Leah Simko

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: The Tokles Family, in loving memory of Eustace Tokles. 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!

TODAY'S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: Our local AHEPA Chapter. Please join them next door in the Veronie Community Hall for refreshments, drinks, and fellowship.

Holy Trinity Food Pantry October 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, October 27th. We are no longer accepting clothing. This month, our most needed items are juice, canned meats, canned chicken, tuna, crackers, and cereal. If you are available to help on distribution days, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

CHURCH DIRECTORY: Help Us Keep Our Church Directory Up to Date! As we prepare for the new year, we would like to make sure our Instant Church Directory is as complete and accurate as possible! Please take a moment to check your family’s listing and verify that your contact information, address, phone numbers, email addresses, and family members are correct. If you haven’t created a listing yet, we encourage you to do so! Keeping the directory up to date helps our church family stay connected and makes it easier for us to reach one another throughout the year. Thank you for taking a few minutes to help us build a complete and accurate directory for our church family!

STEWARDSHIP: We are in the tenth 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): Thank you, Holy Trinity, for your summer and yarn donations for our Lap Blanket Ministry. We appreciate your generosity. Please continue to give 4-ply yarn as we accept donations all year long to keep our inventory well stocked. Fall and winter are our busy seasons for crocheting & knitting! Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 27th, 2026, at 1 PM in the Veronie Community Hall. For questions or more information, contact Maria Petros at 419-473-2387 or Elena Perry at 419-265-6275.

ALTAR FLOWERS ARE NEEDED FOR: May 30th, June 13th, and June 27th. 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: October 25th - Freda and Ottis Hawkins (Trisagion), Charles and Kathryn Bailey (Trisagion), and Maria Cole (Trisagion)

This Week At Holy Trinity

Calendar

October 11 to October 18, 2026

Sunday, October 11

8:45AM Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

Monday, October 12

Office Closed for Holiday

9:00AM Greek Kitchen Workshop (Baklava)

Tuesday, October 13

10:00AM Bible Study

6:00PM Philoptochos Board Meeting

Wednesday, October 14

7:00PM Bible Study

Thursday, October 15

6:00PM Young at Heart

Saturday, October 17

9:00AM Tent City (GOYA)

Sunday, October 18

8:45AM Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

12:00PM Philoptochos General Meeting (AHEPA Room)

12:00PM AHEPA Meeting (Conference Room)

12:15PM Altar Boy Meeting

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Greek Kitchen Order Form 2026

Please follow the instructions on the sheet.

Daughters of Penelope Purse Raffle

Please see flyer for details.

Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Sun. of the 7th Ecumenical Council in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Most glorified art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast established our Fathers as luminous stars upon the earth, and through them didst guide us all to the true Faith. O Most Merciful One, glory be to Thee.

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.

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. Fourth Mode. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to Titus 3:8-15.

Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.

All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Luke 8:5-15

The Lord said this parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold." And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience." As he said these things, he cried out "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Wisdom of the Fathers

When you see life's pleasures, beware that they might not distract you, for they conceal death's snares. Likewise a fisherman casts not his hook to no purpose. As bait for his hook, the enemy uses the delusion of sensuality to arouse desire, that he might thereby catch men's souls and subject them to himself. A soul which has been caught to serve the enemy's will then serves as a snare for other souls, for it conceals the grief of sin with its apparent delight.

St. Ephraim the Syrian

A Spiritual Psalter no 43, pg. 74, 4th century

Since there are certain people who find great fault with us for adoring and honoring both the image of the Savior and that of our Lady, as well as those of the rest of the saints and servants of Christ, let them hear how from the beginning God made man to His own image. For what reason, then, do we adore one another, except because we have been made to the image of God? As the inspired Basil, who is deeply learned in theology, says: "the honor paid to the image conveys to the original.," and the original is the thing imaged from which the copy is made.

St. John of Damascus

The Orthodox Faith, 4.16. Catholic University of America Press in Washington D.C. Translated by Frederic H. Chase, Jr. volume 37, page 370., 8th Century

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