Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of Matthew (9: 9-13) which tells how Jesus came to call Matthew, saying to his critics, ‘I did not come to call the virtuous but sinners’. Afterwards Fr Paul shares a little about St Matthew, whose feast we celebrate today.

Fr Paul says we know very little about Matthew…

Matthew was born in Capernaum and was working as a tax-collector when Jesus called him. He is thought by some scholars to have written an early version of his Gospel in Aramaic, a precursor to the Greek version we now have. He is also said to have preached in the East.

As we celebrate Matthew as a disciple of Jesus, Fr Paul invites us to ask, ‘St Matthew…Pray for us!’