Saint Matthias Catholic Church
Sunday Mass
10:00AM
ENGLISH
COME SHARE THE LOVE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
You Are Invited
I am Bishop Todd Bell and along with the community of Saint Matthias, I wish to welcome you and share the love of our Lord Jesus Christ with all we come in contact with. Spreading the Good News of salvation and anxiously awaiting His coming in glory!
The Community of Saint Matthias is committed to an inclusive approach, void of barriers between God and His people. Christ ministered to those in need, rather than those who were in “good standing” under the “law”. Christ more often than not was found in the company of the “untouchables”, healing the sick, giving sight to the blind and ministering to forbidden people such as the Samaritan woman.
The Church must minister to people through love and kindness; not fear and heavy handedness. We seek to do this through equality, justice and truth. This is done through strengthening with an understanding of God’s Holy Scriptures, renewal within the Holy Eucharist and an openness to the Holy Spirit as He speaks to and through His people.
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Holy Posts
“Strength And Authority”![]()
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So often we try to create strength through the exercise of our physical and/or emotional self. Although we may become physically or emotionally stronger, there are fleeting issues as they can fade away. The only source of true strength and authority is from the Lord. He offers Himself to us to be our strength and authority. In today’s Gospel we see Jesus display these attributes as He exercises a man who is possessed. Jesus also tells us that we too will do these things in His name. It is in the name of Jesus that all strength and authority reside.![]()
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Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee.![]()
He taught them on the sabbath,![]()
and they were astonished at his teaching![]()
because he spoke with authority.![]()
In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, ![]()
and he cried out in a loud voice,![]()
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?![]()
Have you come to destroy us?![]()
I know who you are–the Holy One of God!”![]()
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!”![]()
Then the demon threw the man down in front of them![]()
and came out of him without doing him any harm.![]()
They were all amazed and said to one another,![]()
“What is there about his word?![]()
For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits,![]()
and they come out.”![]()
And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.
“To Love”![]()
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To love the Lord is to love every aspect and detail of who He is. Our relationship with Him must be an all-or-nothing situation. It is easy to love His love, His mercy, His compassion, and even His sacrifice, but we are also called to love His law, His correction, and His plan. These are a little more difficult and require devotion and intention, yet when we come to realize that His laws are a pathway to protection, they become much easier to love. May we embrace the fullness of God in all that we do and all that we are.![]()
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How I love your law, O LORD!![]()
It is my meditation all the day.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.![]()
Your command has made me wiser than my enemies,![]()
for it is ever with me.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.![]()
I have more understanding than all my teachers![]()
when your decrees are my meditation.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.![]()
I have more discernment than the elders,![]()
because I observe your precepts.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.![]()
From every evil way I withhold my feet,![]()
that I may keep your words.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.![]()
From your ordinances I turn not away,![]()
for you have instructed me.![]()
R. Lord, I love your commands.
“What Is Gain”![]()
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We live in a world that believes that the person with the most toys wins. This may be the world’s view, but it is not God’s view. Our life in Christ calls us to sacrificial living. It calls us to leaving the old ways behind and taking on new and better ways. In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows us His way, and that is the way of love, devotion, and sacrifice. Jesus came and abandoned the way of the flesh for the way of the Spirit. He chose this way because of what it offered you and me, and in the end, what it offered Him. The sacrifice needed was that of His own, but what He gained was our redemption. May we come to look at gain in the eternal sense and not in the temporal, and may our lives be a living evidence of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.![]()
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Jesus began to show his disciples![]()
that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly![]()
from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,![]()
and be killed and on the third day be raised. ![]()
Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him,![]()
“God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” ![]()
He turned and said to Peter,![]()
“Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. ![]()
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."![]()
Then Jesus said to his disciples,![]()
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,![]()
take up his cross, and follow me. ![]()
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,![]()
but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.![]()
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world![]()
and forfeit his life? ![]()
Or what can one give in exchange for his life? ![]()
For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory,![]()
and then he will repay all according to his conduct.”
Upcoming Events
Bible Study (Virtual and In Person)
Monday, September 14th & 28th @ 7pm
Ministry To The Homeless
Saturday, September 19th, 12noon
@ Austin Street Center
A Message From Bishop Todd
I am Bishop Todd Bell and along with the community of Saint Matthias, I wish to welcome you and share the love of our Lord Jesus Christ with all we come in contact with. Spreading the Good News of salvation and anxiously awaiting His coming in glory!
