Apostle · Feast day May 14

St. Matthias

The feast day of St. Matthias is May 14, a feast in the US Catholic calendar.

Feast day	May 14
In the US calendar	Feast
Title	Apostle
Next on Bless’s Today screen	Friday, May 14, 2027

Life

When Judas’s place among the Twelve stood empty, the hundred and twenty prayed and cast lots between two men who had companied with the Lord ‘beginning from the baptism of John, until the day when he was taken up from us.’ The lot fell on Matthias.

Of his later road tradition speaks variously — Judea, Cappadocia, the shores of the Caspian — but his election itself is his sermon: the Church filled the wound of betrayal with a witness of the Resurrection.

In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Matthias. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

Date	In the US calendar	Color	Mass readings (US)
Friday, May 14, 2027	St. Matthias, Apostle Feast	Red	Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 · Psalm 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 · See John 15:16 · John 15:9-17
Sunday, May 14, 2028	Fifth Sunday of Easter	White	Acts 14:21-27 · Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 · Revelation 21:1-5a · John 13:34 · John 13:31-33a, 34-35

Readings

Reading citations through May 31, 2027 are as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar. Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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