GOSPEL - Luke 10:16-21
The Lord said to his disciples, “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
Gospel Reading and Reflection
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Today we commemorate the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke. He was a multitalented man who was a physician of body and soul, the first iconographer and an evangelist. We are grateful for the immense contribution that St. Luke made to the Church: Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles, his contribution to the start of the iconographic tradition and faithful co-working with St. Paul, which made the missions and letters of St. Paul what we have today.
St. Lukes total conversion is what made this massive contribution possible. He brought his whole self to the feet of Christ, without holding back, and offered himself for the Glory of God. It is not St. Luke alone, but the Lord working in and through him that blessed and multiplied all of these gifts and talents. We find a beautiful spiritual principle that the more we give ourselves over to the Lord the closer we come to others and the more we becomes a gift and blessing for others. To explain this the Fathers of the church used the example of a wheel with spokes. Each of us is a spoke and the centre of our life is Christ. The further we are away from Christ the further we are from each other, but the closer we come to Christ the closer we come to each other.
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