Episcopal Church Calendar

Starting September 2014, posts will be added highlighting siginificant days in the Episcopal Church Calendar

Episcopal Church Calendar – Sept. 21; Saint Matthew Day

SAINT MATTHEW DAY SEPTEMBER 21 Matthew was a Jew who worked for the occupying Roman forces, collecting taxes from other Jews.  The Romans were not scrupulous about what the “tax farmers’ got for themselves.  Hence the latter, known as “publicans,” were generally hated as traitors by their fellow Jews.  The Pharisees lumped them with “sinners” …

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