On October 18th we get to celebrate St. Luke the Evangelist on a Sunday. His is the example for us as we apply the balm of the Gospel to heal broken lives. The following excerpt is from a longer commemoration on the LCMS web page.
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Saint Luke, Evangelist: "One commentator writes: 'In St. Luke's Gospel our Savior is pictured as the merciful Physician of bodily and spiritual ills. It has, therefore, been called 'the Gospel of mercy and love.' The beautiful passages of God's loving-kindness touch us deeply, for example the parables of the prodigal son and the Good Samaritan, the account of the penitent woman, and the good thief on the cross. Of inestimable value are the first two chapters on the incarnation and childhood of Jesus. Here Luke preserved for us the three precious canticles…the Benedictus, the Magnificant, and the Nunc Dimittis' (Pius Parsch, The Church's Year of Grace, Vol. 5, Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1958, p. 295)."
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