For S Luke’s Day

This the Feast of Luke: Evangelist, artist, and physician. The world is clearly ill and in want of care and healing. We are all unwell and stumbling on a precipice, we are all cast down; we are all in need of good news, of medicine, and of the news and the hope of our cure. This day especially, let us give thanks for all healers and carers, all subcreators—I prefer Tollers’ term to YouTube’s—, and all who bring news and good cheer of the means of grace and the hope of glory. Let us pray for all who are infirm or ailing, the old and the dying, those facing, undergoing, or recovering from medical intervention, all who are battling or in recovery from addiction, the downcast, and those in mental or spiritual darkness; and that all carers, healers, artists, writers, and messengers of Good News be strengthened. By the wholesome medicines of the doctrine delivered by S Luke, may all the diseases of our souls be healed. Amen.