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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.

5TH SUNDAY OF LUKE

Today's Commemorations: Cosmas and Damian The Holy Unmercenaries of Asia and their Mother, Theodota

David, the Righteous of Evia

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:

John Spillson - Maria Tzanakis- Mike George - Kristin Dzikowski

WELCOME TO HIS EMINENCE: We'd like to joyfully welcome His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit to our parish today! It's been a blessing to have him serving and worshipping with us.

EPISTLE READERS ARE: English: Liliana Petros Greek: Helen Matthews

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR FLOWERS ARE SPONSORED BY: Pam Martin, in loving memory of her father, Pete Morris, who fell asleep in the Lord nine years ago. May His Memory Be Eternal!

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

TODAY'S COFFEE HOUR IS SPONSORED BY: Philoptochos, as part of Philoptochos Sunday. Please join them next door in the Veronie Community Hall for refreshments, drinks, and fellowship.

MADONNA HOMES THANKSGIVING DINNER: Our parish will host the annual Thanksgiving Dinner for Madonna Homes residents in the Educational Building on Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. If you would like to donate funds toward the purchase of food for the dinner, please reach out to event co-chairs - Natalie Jackson (567) 202-3579 or JoAnne Cook (419) 944-5517.

SUNDAY SCHOOL REGISTRATION: We’re excited for another wonderful year of learning, faith, and fellowship! Let’s help our children grow in their Orthodox faith, build friendships, and strengthen their connection to Christ and our church community. Sign up today if you haven’t already! We look forward to a blessed year together!

Holy Trinity Food Pantry November 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, November 17th. As it continues to get colder outside, the pantry will be accepting donations of coats, hats, gloves, and scarves for all ages. 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. 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 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 eleventh 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): With temperatures dropping, our busy season is here! Please continue to donate 4-ply yarn. Besides our need for yarn, we are in need of more warm hands and hearts to join us in our mission to make lap blankets for people in need in the Toledo Community. Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 24th, 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.

Upcoming Memorials: November 22nd - Frieda Sevastakis (10 years) and Gus Sevastakis (16 years)

This Week At Holy Trinity

Calendar

November 1 to November 8, 2026

Sunday, November 1

Philoptochos Sunday

8:45AM Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

Thursday, November 5

6:00PM AHEPA Meeting

6:00PM Daughters of Penelope Meeting

Sunday, November 8

D.O.P. Chili Cook-Off

8:45AM Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

12:00PM Hope and Joy Gathering

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Chili Cook-Off

Daughters of Penelope will be having their annual Chili Cook-Off! Please see the flyer for details.

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 Plagal First Mode

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in the Third Mode

O Holy Unmercenaries and wonderworkers, visit our infirmities; freely ye received, freely give to us.

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.

Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Eleventh Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:14-25

At that time, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him, "Follow me." Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Mode. Psalm 15.3,8.
Among the saints who are in his land, the Lord has been wondrous.
Verse: I see the Lord before me continually.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31; 13:1-8.

Brethren, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Gospel Reading

5th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 16:19-31

The Lord said, "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazaros, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazaros in his bosom. And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazaros to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazaros in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.' And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses, and the prophets; let them hear them.' And he said, 'No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to them, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"

Wisdom of the Fathers

The things that have come into being have received from the Creator their proper place, their beginning and, in some cases, their end. But there is no boundary to virtue. The psalmist says, 'I have seen the end the end of all perfection, but Your commandment is very broad and is without limit' (Ps. 118:96). Now if it is true...that love never fails (I Cor. 13:8),... then love has no boundary, and both in the present age and in the future age we will never cease to progress in it, as we add light to light.

St. John Climacus

Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 26: On Discernment; Paulist Press pgs. 250-251, 6th century

...every tree is known by its own fruit. So also is love known by its own fruit and the love of which Christianity speaks is known by its own fruit - revealing that it has in itself the truth of the eternal. All other love, whether humanly speaking it withers early and is altered or lovingly preserves itself for a round of time - such love is still transient; it merely blossoms. This is precisely its weakness and tragedy, whether it blossoms for an hour or for seventy years - it merely blossoms; but Christian love is eternal.

Soren Kierkegaard

Works of Love, Chapter 1; Harper Torchbooks pg. 25, 19th century

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