The Feast of St Matthias, who won the lottery to replace Judas Iscariot. The qualifications were that he be someone who had been with Jesus and the other 11 from the John’s Baptism of Jesus to Jesus' Ascension. The other candidate was “Joseph, called Barsabas, also known as Justus” who surely deserves his own feast day.

                                       1 Samuel 16:1,3 andActs 1:26

 The Lord said....  I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me the one whom I name to you. 
... and to lot fell on Matthias and he 
was added to the eleven apostles. 

          I was thinking of Matthias as I read psalm 80 at Morning Prayer, which asks God to “behold and tend this vine,” and of those first apostles who were just feeling their way forward, and of St David’s as we feel our way forward in our search for a new rector in the context of our new mission statement, though not a new mission here in this place: “to follow Jesus, loving our neighbor as ourselves, without exception.” 

 grant that your Church , being delivered from false apostles, may always 
be guided by faithful 
and true pastors.               Collect for St Matthias Day