Dear Parishioners and Friends,
On October 18 the Church
celebrates the feast day of St. Luke, the Evangelist. He is the patron of
medical personnel since St. Luke was a physician.
Today
more than ever the Church needs many of her sons and daughters to be doctors,
nurses, medical technicians, hospital administrators, emergency personnel, etc.
The medical field is one filled with opportunities to show forth the great
charity of Christ to those who are ill and to manifest the greatness of human
dignity as revealed to us in God creating man in His image and likeness and
in redeeming man by way of the death of His Son on the Cross. Does not Jesus
teach us in Matthew 25: 40, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the
least of these my brethren, you did it to me”?
With the increase of costs for medical procedures, sometimes
financial reasons drive decisions instead of the love for the patient and their
dignity as a human being.
St. Pope John Paul II once wrote a
prayer for physicians in which he said, “Make us O Lord, Good Samaritans, ready
to welcome, treat, and console those we encounter in our work. Following the
example of the holy medical doctors who have preceded us, help us to offer our
generous contribution to the constant renewal of health care structures.”
May all those in the medical field truly be Good Samaritans for others!
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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