The Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist

How does the Gospel’s beloved physician still tend the wounds of the world? In this episode of Everyday Monks, we open the 1928 Book of Common Prayer to the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist—a day that binds together Scripture, healing, and the missionary heart of the Church.

Join us as we explore:

* The rich imagery of Luke as healer and historian of the Holy Spirit

* The Collect, Epistle, and Gospel appointed for his feast—and what they reveal about divine compassion

* The BCP’s enduring theology of wholeness: body, mind, and soul

* How the prayerbook’s rhythms form us as “everyday physicians” of mercy in a fractured age

Come discover how St. Luke’s witness calls us to practice the art of spiritual healing—through prayer, presence, and the slow restoration of love. Listen now wherever you find your podcasts—and join the quiet revival of Anglican spirituality.

The Propers for the Feast of St. Luke

The Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, who didst inspire thy servant Saint Luke the Physician, to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of thy Son; Manifest in thy Church the like power and love, to the healing of our bodies and our souls; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. 2 Tim. iv. 5.

WATCH thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

The Gospel. St. Luke x. 1.

THE Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give; for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

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