Historic Trinity Wishes YOU A Very Merry Christmas!!!

Metro Detroit Lutheran High School Legacy Reunion Event

Join with your fellow classmates, teammates, teachers and coaches for this premier event to be held at Historic Trinity on Sunday April 29th at 3:00 p.m.!

Former choir directors and choir members of the Metro Detroit Lutheran High Schools will perform Easter portions of the Messiah and The Lord Bless You and Keep You, in the Cathedral under... the direction of Karl Osterland. The presentation will last about 30 minutes. Please try to attend one of the rehearsals on Saturday April 21th or 28th at 10:00 a.m. at Historic Trinity if you plan to participate in the choral performance. After the choral performance everyone is invited to the auditorium for socializing and refreshments. Former coaches and teachers of the Metro Detroit Lutheran High Schools will be present to share memories and catch up with former athletes and students as to where their lives have taken them. Don’t miss a chance to see Richard Block, Paul Kruse, Dave Kuppe, Rich Machesky, Jon Middeldorf, Bob Monroe, Dave, Ro-chlitz, Dave Ruth, Bonnie Schwan, Bob Shippy, Keith Sprow, Dennis Tuomi, Bruce Tuomi, Mike Unger, Bob Voelz, Don Vogt, Lee Waak and many more.
 

Bring your yearbook with you to relive the memories!!

Lutheran High School East
Lutheran High School North
Lutheran High School Northwest
Lutheran High School South
Lutheran High School Westland
Lutheran High School West

Parish Nurse News - by: Nancy Jones

PARISH NURSE NEWS- by Nancy Jones

Greetings! I hope you and your loved ones are experiencing Christ’s peace, wholeness and joy.  March is recognized as National Nutrition month, and I would like to focus our attention on Healthy Eating. Eating provides for the nourishment of our bodies, minds and spirits. God has graciously provided food to nourish our bodies, invites us to share our food with both fellow Christians and strangers, and offers Himself as the ultimate food. I want to share the following dietary guidelines from the U.S. Government with you, and encourage you to make healthy food choices. If I can be of any help to you, please contact me. May the Lord bless your eating and strengthen your body, mind and spirit. Dietary Guidelines:

*Reduce fat intake to less than 30% of calories *Reduce cholesterol intake to less than 300mg/day

*Eat protein in moderation (4-6 ounces of meat, fish or poultry/day) *Eat more grains & legumes (at least 6 servings/day) *Eat 5 servings/day of fruits & vegetables

*Limit salt intake to 6 grams/day *Eat the equivalent of 2-3 glasses of milk/day *Eat a variety of foods from different food groups *Emphasize protective foods (whole grains, fruits & vegetables and calcium rich foods)

Historic Trinity's Virtual Tour

Historic Trinity's virtual tour..... Our church, be proud!!!

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See you in church!!!



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Christmas Services at Historic Trinity

Please join us for Christmas Services
Historic Trinity Lutheran Church.....

CHRISTMAS EVE
Christmas Eve is at its finest at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, in downtown Detroit. Make your Christmas plans complete by attending, as a whole family, the Traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight Carol Services on Saturday, December 24, 2011, at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church. "Journey home to Historic Trinity" for this highlight of the Christmas Season:

• 6:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Carol Service. Sunday School children participate.
• 8:00 p.m. Traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
• 11:00 p.m. Festival Christmas Eve Candlelight Carol Service

The finest in preaching by the Historic Trinity Cathedral Ministry Pastors, traditional liturgy, real Christmas Carols by candlelight, and resounding instrumental and choral music, will warm and inspire your hearts with the proclamation of the Birth of the Son of God and the Son of Man -Jesus Christ. Mr. Karl Osterland, Music Director of Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, will be at the organ. The Historic Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday School will sing at the 6:00 p.m. service. The splendid Historic Trinity Cathedral Choir will sing at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Your Christmas season is not complete unless you attend a Christmas Eve Service at Historic Trinity! It just doesn't get any better.

CHRISTMAS DAYA Christmas Festival Communion Service will be offered on Sunday, December 25, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. We celebrate, this day, the greatest gift of all time presented to the world. "Unto you this day is born a Savior - Christ the Lord". The Son of God became also the Son of Man, being conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. The Rev. Dr. David Eberhard will preach, and he will be assisted by the Assisting Pastors of the Historic Trinity Cathedral Ministry.

Thanksgiving Services at Historic Trinity

THANKSGIVING SERVICES

The Downtown Lutheran Thanksgiving Services will be held at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, November 23, at 7:00 p.m., and on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, at 10:00 a.m. Rev. Ronald Guettler will preach on Thanksgiving Eve, and The Rev.Dr. David Eberhard will preach Thanksgiving Day. They will be assisted by the Pastors of the Cathedral Ministry. At each of the Thanksgiving services, individual "blessed loaves of bread" will be distributed to each family present. Each family will be encouraged to take the blessed bread home to share with their loved ones and friends at their Thanksgiving dinner.

If you are attending the downtown Thanksgiving Day Parade, we welcome you to attend the service, and, please feel comfortable attending in the clothing you wore to the parade.

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ST. LUKE SERVICES - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011 - all services

ST. LUKE SERVICES

The Lutheran Downtown St. Luke’s Services, in honor of the Evangelist St. Luke who was a medical doctor, are planned for Sunday, October 16, 2011, at the 8:15, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. Worship Services. The Rev. Dr. David Eberhard will preach. Dr. Alan Watson will be awarded the "Lutheran Medical Award” for 2011, during the 8:15 a.m.Worship Service.

Various members of the Historic Trinity Cathedral Medical Professionals will participate in the Worship Services with special readings and prayers. All medical persons in the Metro Region along with their families and their friends are especially encouraged to attend this day of worship in honor and thanksgiving for their healing services.

Now, let's look at some information on St. Luke himself.

ST. LUKE

The name Lucas (Luke) is probably an abbreviation from Lucanus, like Annas from Ananus, Apollos from Apollonius, Artemas from Artemidorus, Demas from Demetrius. The word Lucas seems to have been unknown before the Christian Era; but Lucanus is common in inscriptions, and is found at the beginning and end of the Gospel in some Old Latin manuscripts. It is generally held that St. Luke was a native of Antioch. Eusebius has: Loukas de to men genos on ton ap Antiocheias, ten episteuen iatros, ta pleista suggegonos to Paulo, kai rots laipois de ou parergos ton apostolon homilnkos—”Lucas vero domo Antiochenus, arte medicus, qui et cum Paulo diu conjunctissime vixit, et cum reliquis Apostolis studiose versatus est.” The writer of Acts took a special interest in Antioch and was well acquainted with it.

St. Luke was not a Jew. He is separated by St. Paul from those of the circumcision, and his style proves that he was a Greek. Hence he cannot be identified with Lucius the prophet of Acts, xiii, 1, nor with Lucius of Rom., xvi, 21, who was cognatus of St. Paul. From this and the prologue of the Gospel it follows that Epiphanius errs when he calls him one of the Seventy Disciples; nor was he the companion of Cleophas in the journey to Emmaus after the Resurrection. St. Luke had a great knowledge of the Septuagint and of things Jewish, which he acquired either as a Jewish proselyte or after he became a Christian, through his close intercourse with the Apostles and disciples. Besides Greek, he had many opportunities of acquiring Aramaic in his native Antioch, the capital of Syria. He was a physician by profession, and St. Paul calls him “the most dear physician” This avocation implied a liberal education, and his medical training is evidenced by his choice of medical language. Plummer suggests that he may have studied medicine at the famous school of Tarsus, the rival of Alexandria and Athens, and possibly met St. Paul there. From his intimate knowledge of the eastern Mediterranean, it has been conjectured that he had lengthened experience as a doctor on board ship. He travailed a good deal, and sends greetings to the Colossians, which seems to indicate that he had visited them.

St. Luke first appears in the Acts at Troas, where he meets St. Paul, and, after the vision, crossed over with him to Europe as an Evangelist, landing at Neapolis and going on to Philippi, “being assured that God had called us to preach the Gospel to them”. He was, therefore, already an Evangelist. He was present at the conversion of Lydia and her companions, and lodged in her house. He, together with St. Paul and his companions, was recognized by the pythonical spirit: “This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the most high God, who preach unto you the way of salvation” . He beheld Paul and Silas arrested, dragged before the Roman magistrates, charged with disturbing the city, “being Jews”, beaten with rods and thrown into prison. Luke and Timothy escaped, probably because they did not look like Jews (Timothy’s father was a gentile). When Paul departed from Philippi, Luke was left behind, in all probability to carry on the work of Evangelist. At Thessalonica the Apostle received highly appreciated pecuniary aid from Philippi, doubtless through the good offices of St. Luke. It is not unlikely that the latter remained at Philippi all the time that St. Paul was preaching at Athens and Corinth, and while he was travelling to Jerusalem and back to Ephesus, and during the three years that the Apostle was engaged at Ephesus. When St. Paul revisited Macedonia, he again met St. Luke at Philippi, and there wrote his Second Epistle to the Corinthians.

St. Jerome thinks it is most likely that St. Luke is “the brother, whose praise is in the gospel through all the churches” , and that he was one of the bearers of the letter to Corinth. Shortly afterwards, when St. Paul returned from Greece, St. Luke accompanied him from Philippi to Troas, and with him made the long coasting voyage described in Acts, xx. He went up to Jerusalem, was present at the uproar, saw the attack on the Apostle, and heard him speaking “in the Hebrew tongue” from the steps outside the fortress Antonia to the silenced crowd. Then he witnessed the infuriated Jews, in their impotent rage, rending their garments, yelling, and flinging dust into the air. We may be sure that he was a constant visitor to St. Paul during the two years of the latter’s imprisonment at Cæarea. In that period he might well become acquainted with the circumstances of the death of Herod Agrippa I, who had died there eaten up by worms” (skolekobrotos), and he was likely to be better informed on the subject than Josephus. Ample opportunities were given him, ‘having diligently attained to all things from the beginning”, concerning the Gospel and early Acts, to write in order what had been delivered by those “who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word” . It is held by many writers that the Gospel was written during this time, Ramsay is of opinion that the Epistle to the Hebrews was then composed, and that St. Luke had a considerable share in it. When Paul appealed to Cæsar, Luke and Aristarchus accompanied him from Cæsarea, and were with him during the stormy voyage from Crete to Malta. Thence they went on to Rome, where, during the two years that St. Paul was kept in prison, St. Luke was frequently at his side, though not continuously, as he is not mentioned in the greetings of the Epistle to the Philippians . He was present when the Epistles to the Colossians, Ephesians and Philemon were written, and is mentioned in the salutations given in two of them: “Luke the most dear physician, saluteth you” ; “There salute thee . . . Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke my fellow labourers” . St. Jerome holds that it was during these two years Acts was written.

We have no information about St. Luke during the interval between St. Paul’s two Roman imprisonments, but he must have met several of the Apostles and disciples during his various journeys. He stood beside St. Paul in his last imprisonment; for the Apostle, writing for the last time to Timothy, says: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. . . . Make haste to come to me quickly. For Demas hath left me, loving this world. . . . Only Luke is with me” . It is worthy of note that, in the three places where he is mentioned in the Epistles (Col., iv, 14; Philem., 24; II Tim., iv, 11) he is named with St. Mark , the other Evangelist who was not an Apostle , and it is clear from his Gospel that he was well acquainted with the Gospel according to St. Mark; and in the Acts he knows all the details of St. Peter’s delivery—what happened at the house of St. Mark’s mother, and the name of the girl who ran to the outer door when St. Peter knocked. He must have frequently met St. Peter, and may have assisted him to draw up his First Epistle in Greek, which affords many reminiscences of Luke’s style. After St. Paul’s martyrdom practically all that is known about him is contained in the ancient “Prefatio vel Argumentum Lucæ”, dating back to Julius Africanus, who was born about A.D. 165. This states that he was unmarried, that he wrote the Gospel, in Achaia, and that he died at the age of seventy-four in Bithynia (probably a copyist’s error for Boeotia), filled with the Holy Ghost. Epiphanius has it that he preached in Dalmatia , Gallia (Galatia?), Italy, and Macedonia. As an Evangelist, he must have suffered much for the Faith, but it is controverted whether he actually died a martyr’s death. St. Jerome writes of him . “Sepultus est Constantinopoli, ad quam urbem vigesimo Constantii anno, ossa ejus cum reliquiis Andreæ Apostoli translata sunt [de Achaia?].” St. Luke its always represented by the calf or ox, the sacrificial animal, because his Gospel begins with the account of Zachary, the priest, the father of John the Baptist. He is called a painter by Nicephorus Callistus (fourteenth century), and by the Menology of Basil II, A.D. 980. A picture of the Virgin in S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, is ascribed to him, and can be traced to A.D. 847 It is probably a copy of that mentioned by Theodore Lector, in the sixth century. This writer states that the Empress Eudoxia found a picture of the Mother of God at Jerusalem, which she sent to Constantinople. It is certain that St. Luke was an artist, at least to the extent that his graphic descriptions of the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Shepherds. Presentation, the Shepherd and lost sheep, etc., have become the inspiring and favourite themes of Christian painters.

St. Luke is one of the most extensive writers of the New Testament. His Gospel is considerably longer than St. Matthew’s, his two books are about as long as St. Paul’s fourteen Epistles: and Acts exceeds in length the Seven Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse. The style of the Gospel is superior to any N. T. writing except Hebrews. It is the most literary of the Gospels. St. Luke is a painter in words. “The author of the Third Gospel and of the Acts is the most versatile of all New Testament writers. He can be as Hebraistic as the Septuagint, and as free from Hebraisms as Plutarch. . . He is Hebraistic in describing Hebrew society and Greek when describing Greek society” . His great command of Greek is shown by the richness of his vocabulary and the freedom of his constructions.

ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST

St. Luke was born at Antioch of pagan parents, possibly born a slave, and one of the earliest Christian converts. He was a Physician. Legend has that he was also a painter who may have done portraits of Jesus and Mary, but none have ever been correctly attributed to him. Luke traveled with Saint Paul and evangelized Greece and Rome with him, being there for the shipwreck and other perils of the voyage to Rome. He wrote the Gospel According to Luke, much of which was based on the teachings and writings of Paul, and his own experiences. He also wrote a history of the early Church in the Acts of the Apostles. He died in Greece a possible martyr. He is the Patron Saint of: artists, bachelors, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors, glass makers, glassworkers, gold workers, goldsmiths, lacemakers, lace workers, notaries, painters, physicians, sculptors, stained glass workers, surgeons, unmarried men.

St. Luke mainly insists in his gospel upon what relates to Christ’s priestly office; for which reason the ancients, in accommodating the four symbolical representations, mentioned in Ezekiel, to the four evangelists, assigned the ox or calf as an emblem of sacrifices to St. Luke. His Gospel speaks to the sacrificial and atoning work of our Savior.