Twice a week, every week, volunteers gather in the St. Matthias’ kitchen to cook, package, and deliver meals. They’ve been doing it since 1965, when the St. Matthias’ Association of Women collaborated with the Victorian Order of Nurses and the Montreal Volunteer Bureau on a pilot project…
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…
Read MoreThe sketch shows a rather well-travelled piece of St. Matthias’ history: the bell of the original building, forged in 1858 by Jones & Coy in Troy, New York. The plaque on the bell reads…
Read MoreAs January progresses, the St. Matthias' office is always focused on one big project: reconciling the finances of the previous year. In 2023, our wonderful accounting department works primarily on computer, but not so in the 1890s…
Read MoreOur first installment is a beautiful watercolour painting of the original church building, painted by Mrs. A.M. Sweeny in 1897. Westmount was quite different in the 1870s…
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