Religious Education News

Dear families,

The Feast of St Matthew is on 21 September.

Saint Matthew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, one of the four Gospel writers and evangelists.  Matthew is also known as Levi in the Gospels of Mark and Luke.Little is known about Saint Matthew, except that he was the son of Alpheus, and he was likely born in Galilee. He worked as a tax collector, which was a hated profession during the time of Christ.  

According to the Gospel, Matthew was working at a collection booth in Capernaum when Jesus came to him and asked, "Follow me." With this simple call, Matthew became a disciple of Christ.

Many years following the death of Christ, around 41 and 50 AD, Matthew wrote his gospel account. He wrote the book in Aramaic in the hope that his account would convince his fellow people that Jesus was the Messiah and that His kingdom had been fulfilled in a spiritual way. It was an important message at a time when almost everyone was expecting the return of a militant messiah brandishing a sword.

Saint Matthew Prayer

O Glorious Saint Matthew, in your Gospel you portray Jesus as the longed-for Messiah who fulfilled the Prophets of the Old Covenant and as the new Lawgiver who founded a Church of the New Covenant.

Obtain for us the grace to see Jesus living in his Church and to follow his teachings in our lives on earth so that we may live forever with him in heaven.

Vicky Pejic

Religious Education Leader