Wednesday, 18 October, 2017, the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist

                            _____________________Ezekiel  47:1,9

from 

below 

the 

thres-

hold 

of the

temple  

water was flowing and everything 

will live where the water goes

                         St Luke’s Gospel  is marked by 

a special concern for the poor, the margin-alized, women, and social outcasts. He had the most vital sense of God‘s pres-ence in ongoing history, which is 

why the story does not end  at the resur-rection and ascen-sion, but Luke con-tinues in The Acts of the Apostles, with Pentecost, the missionary journeys of Paul and the ongoing story of Christ’s presence in the life of the church and in the midst of the world. (From the inimitable  Give Us This Day)   Each of the Evan-

have a symbol. Luke’s is a winged ox  

(from Ezekiel) 

an animal of sacrifice, but 

one with wings. 

 Matthew’s sym-bol is a winged man, Mark’s, a  winged lion, and John, an eagle.  Hah! It took me 69 years to realize that the eagle is the only one that is naturally winged !