Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to St Matthew’s Digital. This is the online platform of St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican Church, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. To find out about services (including the livestream of the Sunday 10am service) , events, and the life of the community in Auckland visit www.stmatthews.nz. Here you are invited to belong to a community of people who share a desire to be enriched in their spirituality and faith. You may be a person of faith, you may not follow any faith; all are welcome. We invite you to explore our video and written material. You will find links to other communities we follow.

 New Liturgical Robes. On Sunday 27 February 2022 we dedicated a new set of robes - chasubles, stoles and banners - designed by Miranda Brown. This was the culmination of a four year project. Watch the video to hear our design story. 

 A Christmas service filmed in St Matthew's, with a reflection from Vicar Helen Jacobi on the Christmas story found in Luke's gospel 

Cate Thorn shows us how to make an Advent wreath at home. This was a lockdown video. The Advent Wreath making starts at 9 minutes 50 seconds. 

 20 September 2020. 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 

 6 September 2020. 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 

 Our first worship video recorded at home at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic on 29 March 2020, the fifth Sunday of Lent. 

 The first Sunday when church was cancelled at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic; a reading and sermon recorded in the church before we moved into the first lockdown 

 Helen Jacobi explores John 1:1-14 and its concept of light 

Vicar of St Matthew's Rev Helen Jacobi is often interviewed in the media - here a a few links 

 Helen Jacobi challenges the Lambeth Bishops to include all 

 Whaea Rose Harrop talks about the work of the City Mission with a Maori lens 

 David Williams preaches for our first Matariki Sunday and explores the meaning of the day 

 Wilf Holt explores the implications of Te Pouhere Sunday (the day we celebrate our three tikanga church) 

 Cate Thorn looks for the coming of the Holy Spirit in our city 

At the end of 2021 a group of St Matthew's parishioners wrote this statement to outline our thinking on the climate crisis and to invite us to take action.

 Helen Jacobi describes the good news of the blessing of the new City Mission building, Homeground 

City Missioner Helen Robinson speaks about the history of the relationship between the City Mission and St Matthew's which goes back 100 years. 

 Cate Thorn explore what we mean by faith with Hebrews 11 

 Helen Jacobi explores the concept of wisdom on Trinity Sunday 

 Helen Jacobi looks at the unnamed slave girl in Acts 16:16-34 

 Susan Adams explore doubt and faith through the lens of Thomas 

 Cate Thorn explores how we can live out the Christmas Story 

 Cate Thorn explores the way we have approached Eve and Mary through the ages and suggests another way 

 Helen Jacobi unpacks the Mark version of the Easter story 

 Cate Thorn reflects on the roles of Pilate and Judas in the Good Friday story 

 Cate Thorn wonders about scripture and our assumptions when we read the Bible 

 Cate Thorn explores the poetry of Isaiah 

Helen Jacobi completes the 2022 Lenten series exploring anointing as part of healing 

 Cate Thorn continues the 2022 Lenten series exploring grace as part of healing 

 Cate Thorn continues the 2022 Lenten series exploring repentance as part of healing 

 Helen Jacobi continues the 2022 Lenten series exploring lament as part of healing 

 Cate Thorn begins the 2022 Lenten series exploring healing with the gospel of Luke 

 A service to pause with in the middle of the day. 

 A reflective version of Silent Night, played on the piano by Matthew Howes, Leader of the St Matthew's Voices 

 The St Matthew’s Voices sing the O Antiphons, each one using a different name for Jesus 

 The St Matthew’s Voices sing the O Antiphons, each one using a different name for Jesus 

 The St Matthew’s Voices sing the O Antiphons, each one using a different name for Jesus 

 The St Matthew’s Voices sing the O Antiphons, each one using a different name for Jesus 

 This video introduces our grand piano to you - it arrived in July 2018 and we have been in love with it ever since. 

Rev Helen Jacobi's farewell sermon to St Matthew's Music Director Michael Bell

Michael Bell reflects on the music written for Lent.

The story of St Matthew's altar cross

 On Waitangi Day Helen Jacobi explores the history of the land St Matthew’s sits on 

 Diana Rattray delivers a sermon written by Helen Jacobi on St Thomas and St Matthew’s connections wit the former St Thomas church in Freemans Bay, Auckland 

 Bishop John Bluck reflects on the kind of church we are called to be if we follow our patron saint Matthew 

 The story of parishioner Hilda Fricker who died in the 1918 flu. 

 Archbishop Don Tamihere preaches on St Matthew’s Day 2019 on the Christian practice of mercy 

Waiora Port tells the story of St Thomas’ Church before it was demolished in the 1970s