Over 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 MoreThere’s a lot for St. Matthias’ to be thankful for, 150 years on…
Read MoreOne of the delights of our archives is just how many stories are contained even in non-narrative documents. Today, we dive deeply into the first seventy-five years of insurance…
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 MoreOn January 16th, 1949, St. Matthias’ 11am service was neither Eucharist nor Morning Prayer, but a solemn service of dedication…
Read MoreIn July of 1949, then-rector Rev. Gilbert Oliver set out for England to take a well-deserved vacation, and, while he was there, to see about recruiting a young curate to become his assistant. The recruitment was ultimately unsuccessful, but the vacation, the first that we have on record, was part of a larger move through the 1940s to see our clergy as needing more than just their stipends…
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 MoreReading lessons and welcoming people into the church are two tasks that have been with St. Matthias’ as long as we’ve been a “we”! Each piece of scripture read and each bulletin handed out or collection plate circulated is the result of slowly evolving traditions…
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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