Luke is the only gospel writer who tells the parables of the prodigal son (15:11-32) and the good Samaritan (10:25-37). He alone tells us the stories of Mary and Martha (10:38-42) and of the ...
The Sunday lectionary reading for the Third Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 6.17–26, this gospel's version of the ...
The Feast of the Presentation officially closes the Christmas season, 40 days after the Nativity, so there’s still one last ...
If you dig a little deeper, throughout the Old Testament and New Testament, wisdom literature is filled with concise ...
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the fourth Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 5.1–11, the story of the miraculous catch of fish, as we jump forward into Jesus’ ministry before returning to ...
How can you be so sure? I mean it all seems like a fairy story to me.” Christmas and Easter tend to bring out such conversations. I’m sure you’ve played a part in one such ...
IN THIS Gospel, Simon responds to Jesus as he does, not because of a realisation at that moment (15.8), but because of things ...
That's what the gospel, The Good News, is really all about ... It's a quite different story and a quite different personality. Matthew and Luke depend on Mark. Which is why those three gospels ...
So anyone on the street of a Greek city picking up Luke's gospel would have felt at home with it if they were able to read good Greek....Tradition holds that Luke was actually a traveling ...