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St Luke

To St Luke, whose feast-day is 18th October, we owe a beautifully written gospel as well as the Book of Acts. He was a Greek physician and faithful travelling companion to St Paul. Under house arrest near the end of his life Paul noted, ‘only Luke is with me’. Luke’s gospel focuses on the compassion of Christ, and offers us moving parables, such as the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son. Women figure more prominently in Luke’s gospel than in any other: look out for the extended story of the Virgin Birth, and stories of Mary, Elizabeth, and the woman who was a sinner. His gospel also features more poor people, more lepers, more ‘sinners’, who are all shown to be ‘inside’ the love of Christ. In Acts, Luke skilfully links sacred and profane history, as subsequent archaeology has shown. He tells of how the early Christians moved away from Jerusalem into the pagan world, and especially on to Rome.

Luke  Feast  Day  Written  Gospel
Acts  Greek  Physician  Travelling  Faithful
Paul  Compassion  Parables  Prodigal  Son
Good  Samaritan  Women  Poor  Lepers
Sinners  Jerusalem  Pagan  Rome  Early  Christians