St. Matthew Orthodox Christian Church
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Torrance, CA

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Help Saint Matthew Grow!
Saint Matthew's Orthodox Church in Torrance is growing and needs your help! 

The house next door to the church is set to be going up for sale very soon. The purchase of this property would provide much needed classroom, storage and office space, as well as help us to work toward the purchase of a larger property in the coming years. The following video provides an overview of our need and can easily be share with friends and family: 
Help Us Grow! Saint Matthew's Orthodox Church in Torrance is growing and needs your help! The house next door to the church is set to be going up for sale very soon. The purchase of this property would provide much needed classroom, storage and office space, as well as help us to work toward the purchase of a larger property in the coming years. The following video provides an overview of our need and can easily be share with friends and family:
The Future of Saint Matthew: A Capital Campaign Presentation

The following is a more in depth presentation of our situation and the immediate need, including various ways to donate which may also provide tax benefits. 

Donate Today!
Donations can be made by cash or check in person, or online via Paypal, Venmo or Zelle at the links below.
 
If possible, please include the word "Grow" in the memo section. 
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Today's Commemorations
Macarius the Great of Egypt, Makarios of Alexandria, Mark, Bishop of Ephesus, Makarios, Hierodeacon of Kalogera, Patmos, Arsenius of Corfu, Removal of the Honorable Relics of Saint Gregory the Theologian, Branwallader, Bishop of Jersey
Today's Scripture Readings
ST. PAUL'S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS 5:22-26; 6:1-2
Brethren, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
MATTHEW 22:35-46
At that time, a lawyer came up to Jesus and asked him a question, to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David." He said to them, "How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet'? If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?" And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
Today's Thought

"The most important work that a spiritual wrestler can do is to enter within the heart, there to fight Satan; to hate and repel the thoughts that he inspires and to wage war upon him." – St. Macarius of Egypt