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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 18th. It is also the feast day of St. Luke,

the evangelist. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been exploring what it means to be Jesus Christ's follower.

On Monday, we looked at the example of St. Teresa of Avila

and how we learned from her that in order to follow Jesus, we need to do his work. On Tuesday,

we looked at St. Margaret Mary Aliquoy, who received visions of the sacred heart of Jesus.

And from her, we learned that in order to be Jesus' follower, we need to accept his love

and in return offer him all of our love.

Yesterday, with the help of St. Ignatius of Antioch, we learned that in order to follow Jesus,

we need to be willing to give him everything, even if, as in the case of St. Ignatius, it requires

our life. And today, with the help of St. Luke, the evangelists, we will learn that in order to be a follower of Jesus,

we need to talk about him, to tell people about him, and to spread his holy message.

Now, St. Luke, the evangelist. We call him an evangelist because he was one of four people that wrote

the Gospels. There were four, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Now, a couple of the people that wrote

the gospel were disciples of Jesus. They knew him when he was

alive and they followed him. They were one of his chosen apostles. St. Luke was not one of those

people. In fact, tradition tells us that Luke was a Greek, meaning he was not Jewish. He was a foreigner and therefore probably wouldn't have been very

well accepted by the Jews. So he was Greek and he was also a physician, which means he was a doctor.

Being a doctor, of course, in the time of Jesus was different than it is now. They didn't have modern hospitals, and yet he worked hard to take care of people and

ministered to many of the early apostles when they went on their way to spread the good

news of Jesus Christ.

Now, St. Luke did not only write the gospel of Luke. He is also given credit for writing the

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