2 Timothy 4:10-17b
Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
Luke 10:1-9
Today is the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist.
In the First Reading, St. Paul tells how he has been deserted by someone, others have
gone elsewhere, one has done him great harm by resisting his teaching, and only Luke is
with him.
(see 2 Timothy 4:10-11, 14)
We can only imagine the conversations they must have had: Paul being eager to know all Luke has seen, heard and experienced, and Luke being eager to accommodate him.
It illustrates so well what the Responsorial Psalm reiterates: "Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your Kingdom." (Psalm 145:10-12)
In light of those words, what kind of friend does that make us? Are we eager to know and to share, or are we just eager to know? Or are we not even eager to know, but share anyway without being informed by the Word of God?
On this Feast of the gospel evangelist, St. Luke, may God give us His grace as he did St. Luke, that we might be His good and loyal friends and make known the glorious splendor
of His Kingdom.
Father Ed Bakker
Anglican Catholic Church / Original Province
Mission of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
Bendigo in the Central Goldfields
Australia
