Festal Orthros: St. Luke the Evangelist: 8:30 – 9:30am

Festal Divine Liturgy: St. Luke the Evangelist: 9:30 – 11:00am

The Orthodox Church commemorates St. Luke the Evangelist, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. This feast celebrates St. Luke's contributions to the early Church as a historian who helped spread the Good News of Christ.

St. Luke was an Antiochean, a physician by trade, and a disciple and companion of Paul. He wrote his Gospel in Greek after Matthew and Mark, after which he wrote the Acts of the Apostles. He lived some eighty-six years and died in Achaia, perhaps in Patras, the capital of this district. His emblem is the calf, the third symbolical beast mentioned by Ezekiel (1:10), which is a symbol of Christ's sacrificial and priestly office.

Apolytikion of Luke the Evangelist

O Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke, intercede to our…