April 2, 2025
A reading from
the holy Gospel according to John
Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.
“I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
April 2, 2025
Saint Who?
Saints Who Were Instruments of Healing
Saint Luke
Evangelist (1st century a.d.) Feast: October 18
Like the other three evangelists, Saint Luke wrote his Gospel to introduce people to Jesus Christ, not to provide information about himself. Luke’s Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles tell us nothing directly about Luke’s family, his upbringing, or even how he became a Christian. The strongest clue in the Gospel of Luke about his profession is found in his sympathetic comment about the woman who had experienced a flow of blood for twelve years. Luke sadly relates that she had spent all her money on doctors but had not received any improvement in her health.
The Apostle Paul, on the other hand, settles the question for us. In Colossians 4:14, he calls Luke “the beloved physician,” which is why Saint Luke has been considered the patron saint of medical doctors for almost two millennia.
It’s not certain when Saint Paul wrote his second letter to Saint Timothy, but Paul certainly believed that he was close to death at the time. Paul was in prison, bound by chains, and had been abandoned by other Christians. Paul wrote to Timothy that Luke was the only one who was still with him. Fortunately for Paul, he had the comforting presence of a Christian who was both a friend and a physician during his sufferings.
Jesus, our Divine Physician, show us how to comfort
our friends during times of suffering.
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