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October. 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Luke the Evangelist, Missionary, and Historian
Saint
Luke the Evangelist.
The Collect.
LMIGHTY God,
who calledst Luke the Physician, whose praise is in the Gospel, to be an
Evangelist, and Physician of the soul; May it please thee, that, by the
wholesome medicines of the doctrine delivered by him, all the diseases of our
souls may be healed; through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Luke the
Evangelist. Of St. Luke we know only his companionship with
St. Paul and his Gospel and Acts of the Apostles. (a) He is called "the
beloved physician;" he is the companion of St. Paul from Troas to Philippi
in the second missionary journey; from Philippi to Jerusalem in the third, and
after the captivity at Cæsarea to Rome, in his first captivity at Rome, and is
his sole faithful companion in the last (Acts
xvi. 9; xx., xxi., xxvii., xxviii.; Col. iv. 15; Philemon 24; 2 Tim. iv. 11). (b)
The Gospel according to St. Luke stands out from the rest in its traces of
higher education, its peculiar beauty and pathos, its didactic style, and its
special reference (well suiting the "Pauline Gospel") to Atonement
and forgiveness of sin. The Acts is a continuation of the Gospel--a series of
pictures of the great epochs of the development of the Church, embracing, in
the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Roman, the three great elements of ancient
civilization. -- October 18th.
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