Today we thank you O Lord for opening our eyes through St. Luke in showing to us that what we need most in this world are people who would reveal to us and enable us to experience the mystery of your coming and presence among us. You never told us to pray for more machines or technology, more gadgets or more money for the abundant harvest. What we need are people – laborers – or evangelists who would write with their lives your gospel of love, your gospel of life like St. Luke.
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” (Lk.10:2)
Of your four evangelists, only St. Luke made known to us how he had “decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence” (Lk.1:3) everything about you and your teachings, O Lord. With his life and writings, we were able to have a glimpse of the mysteries of your life especially stories of your Annunciation and Birth up to your presentation at the Temple that have endeared the Christmas season to us.
It was St. Luke who always told us the many instances you have prayed to stress the need for an intimacy with God always in this life. He was the only one who told us the beautiful Emmaus story that has been a constant reminder of Easter burning always within our hearts. And it was also St. Luke who remarkably showed us how Mary has always been your model disciple until the Pentecost.
Give us, Lord Jesus, the same grace as a laborer and an evangelist which is the ability to see and communicate God working in our lives daily in the power of the Holy Spirit. AMEN. Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II, Parokya ng San Juan Apostol at Ebanghelista, Gov. F. Halili Ave., Bagbaguin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan 3022. E-mail to lordmychef@gmail.com.
*Photo from Google: “Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin” by Flemish painter Roger van der Weyden (1400-1464). It is one of the most important paintings from Europe in the United States now kept on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It is a very lovely and very interesting painting too!
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