What’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 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 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…
Read MoreBy 1967, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, celebrated between the Feast of the Confession of St. Peter (January 18th) and the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (January 25th), had been in the Anglican mind for 100 years…
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