The Gospel of Luke is the first volume ... and the Nunc Dimittis (2:29-32). Luke also provides the first half of the Hail Mary prayer in Gabriel's and Elizabeth's greetings to Mary (1:28, 42).

This event from the Gospel of Saint Luke took place forty days after the birth of Christ Jesus which we know as Christmas Day. We can only find the true meaning of Christmas in the Infant that was ...

In short, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is a call to profound conversion, to purify our hearts and to ...

Msgr. Joseph Prior shows how the prayer of Simeon in the Temple, consoled by the infant Jesus, eases us into rest and prepares us for a new day of doing good in God's service.

Our painting by Lorenzetti originally decorated the altar of St Crescentius in the magnificent Cathedral of Siena. It depicts ...

JESUS IN LUKE -- THE DIVINE MAN Luke portrays Jesus in the gospel in essentially according to the image of the divine man. The person in whom divine powers are visible and are exercised ...

Luke's unequivocal answer was "Yes." Tradition holds that the author of the gospel of Luke was a physician ... Jesus Christ. According to some interpreters, Luke's Jesus is not only a king ...

38 Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according ... to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers. It should ...