As 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 MoreThe earliest documents we have in our archives are financial ones, and they are certainly the most numerous as well. In the 1880s…
Read MoreStart-Up Sunday, known affectionately by the current rector as “Hot Dog Sunday,” is one of St. Matthias’ newest traditions, started in the late 1980s by then-rector Rev. Paul James…
Read MoreA little later this month, St. Matthias’ Parish Executive Committee will meet for its third quarterly meeting of 2023, the first to be held in person since 2019…
Read MoreOur archives record mostly notable things: significant donations, important services, matters of canon law procedure, and so on. And those things are central to telling St. Matthias’ story, but…
Read MoreToday’s St. Matthias’ choristers get their weekly assignments via email (and whiteboard), but they otherwise aren’t all that different from the assignments of the 1930s and 1940s…
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