Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle

Send us Fan MailWednesday, 14May 2025Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle Antiphons and Readings on p 1621 of the Daily Missal First Reading: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26In those days: Peter stood up among the brethren  (the company of persons was in all  about a hundred and twenty),  and said, “Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled,  which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus.  For he was numbered among us  and was allotted his share in this ministry. For it is written in the book of Psalms,  ‘Let his habitation become desolate,  and let there be no one to live in it’;  and ‘His office let another take.’  So one of the men who have accompanied us  during all the time that the Lord Jesus  went in and out among us,  beginning from the baptism of John  until the day when he was taken up from us— one of these men must become with us  a witness to his resurrection.” And they put forward two,  Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus,  and Matthias.  And they prayed and said,  “Lord, who knows the hearts of all people,  show which one of these two you have chosen  to take the place in this ministry and apostleship  from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.”  And they cast lots for them,  and the lot fell on Matthias;  and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 113:1b-2.3-4.5-6.7-8 (R. see 8)R/. The Lord made them sit with the princes of his people.Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord! May the name of the Lord be blest both now and forevermore!From the rising of the sun to its setting, praised be the name of the Lord! High above all nations is the Lord, above the heavens his glory.Who is like the Lord, our God, who dwells on high, who lowers himself to look down upon heaven and earth?From the dust he lifts up the lowly, from the ash heap he raises the poor, to set them in the company of princes, yes, with the princes of his people.R/. The Lord made them sit with the princes of his people.Gospel: John 15:9-17At that time: Jesus said to his disciples,  “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you;  abide in my love.  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,  just as I have kept my Father’s commandments  and abide in his love.  These things I have spoken to you,  that my joy may be in you,  and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment,  that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this,  that a person lay down his life for his friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command you.  No longer do I call you servants,  for the servant does not know what his master is doing;  but I have called you friends,  for all that I have heard from my Father  I have made known to you.  You did not choose me,  but I chose you and appointed you  that you should go and bear fruit  and that your fruit should abide;  so that whatever you ask the Father in my name,  he may give it to you.  This I command you, to love one another.”