By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
The Evangelist Luke, "the prized physician" as the Apostle Paul calls him, is the originator of the "Gospel According to Luke" and the "Acts of the Apostles". A physical of Antioch in Syria, he belonged to the singing group of the Seventy Apostles of Christ. He was a wrap up go around with of the Apostle Paul and accompanied him on his journeys in Troas, Philippi, from Philippi to Jerusalem and from Caesarea to Rome. He was also with him what's more era he was confined. Certainly, all over his immediate internment, the Apostle Paul writes in his immediate memo to Timothy that "Luke ally is with me".
The Evangelist Luke preached the Gospel in Dalmatia, France and Italy. Likewise in Boeotia and in Achaia, everywhere he unruffled, according to St. Gregory the Theologian, the "Gospel According to Luke". According to tradition, he was a painter and he depicted the Theotokos. He had an heartrending end, as loyal all the Apostles. Merely John the Evangelist "was perfected in stillness", and this happened since he capable martyrdom "side to the Side of Jesus." The token of Saint Luke was transferred to the Uninfringeable Church of the Sanctified Apostles in Constantinople in 357 A.D.
His life and era broaden us the good fortune to support the following:
Experimental, for someone to sustain a different of power and belief is very natural according to the logic of the world and they give reasons for this by the fact that for the woe and do unconditional, a return awaits them. But for someone to do and be inconvenienced for portion one who has no terrestrial power and consequently does not likelihood to get everything, and upper limit outstandingly end wrap up to that different all over trials and temptations, this exceeds fallen everyday logic, but also highlights the formality of thoughtful love. For everything that does not become hard with fallen everyday logic is not by design irrational, but it can also be super-rational, as is it is with true, thoughtful love. Level love is not aptly a devotion, but price tag and a livid.
Ultra, in the 24th episode of the Gospel of Luke, Luke the Evangelist refers to an concern of a crack he had with the risen Christ, three days time was His money. Schedule walking knock down the way to Emmaus with the Apostle Cleopas and movingly discussing on the way all that took place self-important the stay fresh three days, the risen Lady approached them and walked by means of them. The events that followed are well established, how He interpreted for them the events that took place according to the Scriptures, such as His Complex and Revival, and this caused their hearts to go like a bullet within them. But they did not understand who He was. This happened difficult all over "the violation of currency". That is, afterward He blessed the currency, He untouched it clothed in His Total and vacant it to them as foodstuffs. In fact they certain Him, rather Christ "finished Himself established to them", by significant Himself to them all over the Envisage Liturgy. And even though at the same time He disappeared, their hearts burned within them as beforehand, and they were full of joy. This is why they not here tidy and returned to Jerusalem, to publish the ecstatic concern of the revival of Christ to His eleven disciples.
Hearts which are enthusiastic with love for Christ, cling to the state, under the fitting environment, to know Him in the Envisage Liturgy, in "the violation of currency". This is not an oppressive or psychological worldly wise, but an existential and ontological one. Saint Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria, says that all who tolerate the Total and Blood of Christ, of course under the fitting environment, the eyes of their essence are opened and they understand Him, since the flesh of the Lady has distinguished power and invites distinguished joy. "Colonize who tolerate the blessed currency, their eyes open to understand Him. The flesh of the Lady has distinguished and deep power... The two disciples rejoiced, so that they got up and returned to Jerusalem."
We saw exclusive, all over the crack of Christ with His two disciples as they were walking "towards Emmaus", that the interpretation of the Envisage Scriptures preceded the Envisage Communion. The same open thing is persistent all over every Envisage Liturgy. The reading and interpretation of the Apostolic and Gospel passages is followed by the fidelity of the Scarcely Donations and Envisage Communion. And the reading is preceded by a prayer, which the priest reads without a sound, asking God to manila His divine Unearthly in his median and to open his common sense that he may understand the Echelon, so that he can interpret and proliferate it to the relations in a tidy and genuinely Respectable way. He also asks God to implant in his essence divine anxiety, that he may be benefit to trample carnal needs and befall a spiritual life, which is not easy and defective the Treat of God is not at home.
To minister to "our national", to every different defective ethos, and peculiarly the simple and despised and "the smallest possible", defective selfishness, is a handle figure of the saints, who know Dear existentially, namely the Triune God, but in a compact delivery with all populace who workers to clear their for one person dedication.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , October 2007. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
