Although many things in our archives are, as you know by now, quite well-documented, our connections with the wider Anglican Church are not….
Read MoreOver the course of the past three years, St. Matthias’ has been upgrading its audiovisual equipment, which now includes three cameras, a laptop, and a flat-screen TV. These new additions…
Read MoreExactly 50 years ago today, St. Matthias’ welcomed the newest – and largest – member of its pastoral team: a gorgeous tracker organ built by German organ-maker Karl Wilhelm…
Read MoreThere’s a lot for St. Matthias’ to be thankful for, 150 years on…
Read MoreIf you were reading a St. Matthias’ parish email in the spring or summer of 2022, you may have encountered a plaintive plea from your wardens on the subject of updating the inventory. “We want you,” you were to imagine Heather Barwick or Jessica Stilwell saying…
Read MoreAs Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Queen Victoria was the highest authority to which the new congregation of St. Matthias’ owed allegiance. In fact, if St. Matthias’ had been founded about twenty years earlier, it would have had an even more direct line to the monarchy, since the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada was only granted autonomy as an ecclesiastical province in the 1850s. Next week, when Charles III is coronated, he will take up the mantle of Defender and Governor of Anglicanism…
Read MoreIn the 1880s and 90s, when Vestry was still held at Easter (no wonder there were sometimes only a dozen or so attendees!), financial reporting was fairly simple. St. Matthias’ was still a small church, and the entire balance sheet for the year could fit on a single page…
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