Feast of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
Categories: hymns, feast-days
Date: 18 October 2006 12:38:17
[As we've move into spring down here, I thought a change of icon and background was appropriate...]
Today we celebrate the Feast Day of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, who, in addition to writing Luke and Acts, is counted as one of the Seventy Apostles and also remembered as being the first iconographer of the church.
Epistle: Colossians 4:5-11, 14-18
Gospel: Luke 10:16-21
Troparion:
Let us praise with sacred songs the Holy Apostle Luke,
The recorder of the joyous Gospel of Christ,
And the scribe of the Acts of the Apostles,
For his writings are a testimony of the Church of Christ:
He is the Physician of human weaknesses and infirmities.
He heals the wounds of our souls,
And constantly intercedes for our salvation!
Kontakion:
You became a disciple of God the Word,
With Paul you enlightened all the world,
Casting out its darkness by composing the Holy Gospel of Christ.
Kontakion:
Let us praise the godly Luke:
He is the true preacher of piety,
The orator of ineffable mysteries
And the star of the Church,
For the Word who alone knows the hearts of men,
Chose him, with the wise Paul, to be a teacher of the gentiles!