THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

Quote for the Day - Feast of St. Luke - October 18, 2010


"Luke's gospel was written primarily for gentile christians drawn largely from the poor city dwellers of the Roman world. In every sense of the word these people were the outsiders. They were economically poor, of low social status, and had no share in the rich religious heritiage of judaism. Luke's good news was precisely that these outsiders were the special recipients of the kingdom; the community of men under the rule of God which was to be brought in by the messiah."

Duncan Macpherson in Luke, ACTA Foundation, Adult Catechetical Teaching Aids, Chicago, Illinois, 1971, page. 5.