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Holy Cross Day, kept on September 14, celebrates the Cross of Christ as the instrument of the world's redemption. Its origin is a building: the basilica complex Helena (Constantine’s pious mother) raised at Golgotha and the tomb, dedicated on September 13, 335. From the fifth century the wood of the Cross was shown to the people at Jerusalem on the day after that anniversary, and the feast has been kept ever since, East and West.

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Autumn Ember Days — Ember Days are three-day fasts (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) observed four times a year — at the beginnings of the four seasons — for prayer, fasting, and the ordering of the Church's ministry. They are among the oldest fixed observances in the Western calendar.

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Matthew, called Levi in Mark and Luke, was a Galilean tax collector summoned by Jesus from his customs booth and numbered among the Twelve Apostles. The universal early tradition, attested by Papias around 130 and by Irenaeus around 180, records that he composed a Gospel in Hebrew for Jewish believers before carrying the apostolic preaching to other peoples. The church remembers him on September 21 as the apostle who put the Lord's deeds and sayings into writing for the household of Israel and, through that writing, for the world.