Advent Study Offering: Five-Week Course on Matthew’s Gospel

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All are invited to join a group at St Margaret’s, Belfast for a free, online and in-person short course on Matthew’s Gospel, which is the focus of Lectionary readings for Year A starting in Advent 2025.

Matthew’s Gospel is the first in the canon—that is, the 27 books of the New Testament. It is one of four New Testament gospels, through which we learn about Jesus and his followers. Matthew’s focus is on Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament), a grounding with which Matthew’s audience is very familiar, but which we as Episcopalians are not. A Jewish text written after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the war against Rome in 66-70CE, Matthew wrote intending to present contours of Judaism in the context of that catastrophe for Jewish followers of Jesus.

To join the course or if you have questions, please email the instructor, Canon Deirdre Good, for a course outline and online materials before Nov. 21.

Canon Deirdre Good, Th.D., a parishioner of St Margaret’s, and a licensed lay preacher in the diocese, taught New Testament and Christian Origins at the General Theological Seminary in New York City for 28 years. For more information see deirdregood.net.