#Saint Luke

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Saint Luke Painting the Virgin by Jan Gossaert, 1520-1522.

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Saint Luke by Giorgio Vasari

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'Saint Luke the Apostle' by Mikhail Nesterov (1909)

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Rogier van der Weyden (Belgian, 1399-1464) Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca.1435–40 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Saint Luke, in your gospel, you show us the beauty of holiness. Help us to reflect the image of Christ in the way we live our lives. Saint Luke, pray for us!

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He Met the Blessed Virgin, He Painted Her Portrait

Commemorated in the Church calendar on October 24, Saint Luke the Evangelist holds a special place in the Church not just because of his contribution as the author of one of the Four Gospels. Church tradition teaches that he was the first iconographer. Saint Luke painted the holy image of the Virgin Mary on a panel, a face which he himself had seen. He brought his first icons to the Mother of God herself, who approved them and proclaimed: “May the grace of Him Who was born of me, through me, be imparted to these icons.” There are at least five highly-venerated icons of the Virgin painted by Saint Luke which are still venerated today, including Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Vladimir and Our Lady of Czestochowa. He is also known to have painted icons of Saints Peter and Paul. The beginnings of iconography can also be found in the catacomb paintings of the second and third centuries.

See St. Luke's icon here:

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Luke 14-16

The body is more than raiment The life is more than meat These are soft words I must confess Before His judgment seat If I'm humble I'm exalted And if not I'm abased From the highways and the hedges My spot will be replaced Lazarus is in paradise The rich man in the flame If I do suffer damnation I'll have myself to blame At times I play the prodigal And wander from the Lord Yet whenever I do repent He moves away the sword These teachings are Christ imparted To help His brethren soar So He may take them out of sin Into life evermore

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Saint Luke as a Painter, Before Christ on the Cross (between 1630-1639, oil on canvas) | Francisco de Zurbaran

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St Luke paints the Virgin and Child from life

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Chapel of Laurence O'Toole Window Virgin and Child with Saint Luke by Patrick Pollen

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Niklaus Manuel (Deutsch), Altar of St. Anna, Saint Luke paints the Madonna

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Today’s Reflection

Saint Luke, who we remember today, wrote both a Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, in which each continues to move. In the Gospel the movement follows Jesus and in Acts the movement follows Peter and Paul. This journey, then, is the point for Saint Luke because he wants the reader; that is you and I, to be present as if we were on the journey with Jesus, Peter, and Paul, so that we may increase our “confidence in the unshakable firmness of … Christian truths,”[1] which we witness in today’s Gospel. For Jesus sent his disciples on a journey armed with only the truth and it is this truth that brings to us eternal life as we continue the journey of building up the Church. We do this with the assistance of Saint Luke who gave to us the truth found in Jesus, Peter and Paul and now within the Church all guided by the gift of the Holy Spirit.

[1] Online Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09420a.htm.

Today’s Spiritual Links for October 18, 2024

National Eucharistic Review Today’s Mas Readings Today’s Reflection Rosary Liturgy of the Hours New American Bible Non-Scriptural Reading Prime Matters

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2024 FEBRUARY 02 Presentation of the Lord Friday

"If anyone wants to abandon the world and gain the Kingdom, let them take Jesus in their hands, wrap their arms around him, hug him to their bosom. Then they will be able to walk joyously wherever they wish. [For] there was no one who could take us out of the prison house of our bodies in hope of the life to come except he whom [we hold] in [our] arms."

~ Origen, Sermon 15 on St Luke's Gospel ; PG 13, 1838-1839 (cf SC 87)

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[juliehowlin]

Saint Luke

Saint Luke was a doctor who lived in the city of Antioch in Ancient Syria.

10 things you might not know about Saint Luke:

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Who else reads like this? Once I was told it was okay to read different chapters at the same time of my read through I went for it and it changed the bible for me completely! I enjoy getting lost and found every day in this book. Right now we're in Leviticus, Proverbs, saint Luke and Romans. Feel free to stop by and talk to me about your favorite parts (:

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saint luke. he/him, xxi.