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 MoreAs many of our stained-glass windows were installed in the years immediately before and after WWII, it was only natural that they should have begun needing repairs as they turned 50 in the 1980s and 1990s…
Read MoreThere’s a lot for St. Matthias’ to be thankful for, 150 years on…
Read MoreCookbook fundraisers are a tradition that goes back to the 1860s, and were so popular that over the 80 years between then and the 1920s, over 3000 cookbooks were published, mostly by churches, in North America. What began…
Read MoreLittle did the Association of Women (link to Votes for Women) know, but when they embarked on the yearlong project of developing a new edition of the St. Matthias’ cookbook in 1989, it would be their last major endeavour…
Read MoreWhat’s in a bulletin? This week’s snippet from our archives zooms in on the bulletin from the 75th building anniversary to uncover the ways in which a single small document can carry within it quite a large number of stories…
Read MoreOn April 12th, 2020, 78 separate devices (phones, computers, and tablets) logged on to St. Matthias’ Easter Morning Zoom service, a month after the only pandemic service that St. Matthias’ cancelled. Those 78 connections…
Read MoreThe St. Matthias’ Annual Vestry Meeting is this Sunday! In lieu of a regular blog post, we’ve compiled a list of Vestry Attendance Dos and Don’ts, based on some curiosities from past Vestry minutes and attendance sheets…
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…
Read MoreThings at St. Matthias’ haven’t always been as serious as vestry meetings, financial reports, and lost bells. The parish has a long and vibrant history in the arts – our choir, of course, and the succession of organs, but also operettas, fashion shows, and Christmas pageants…
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