Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Matthew the Apostle Read more

St. Matthew the Apostle

St. Matthew the Apostle (1st c.) was a Jew who also went by the name of Levi. He was from Galilee and served in Capernaum as a tax collector for Herod Antipas before becoming a disciple of Jesus. It was in the home of St. Matthew that Jesus dined with the "sinners and tax collectors."  Under Jesus' influence St. Matthew was led to repentance for the evil he had done as a...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 312
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