OCTOBER 18 SAN LUCA EVANGELISTA. Prayer to be recited today

Glorious St. Luke who, to extend to the whole world until the end of the centuries, in the divine science of health, recorded in a special book not only the teachings and deeds of our Lord Jesus Christ, but also the most wonderful facts of his Apostles for the foundation of the Church; obtain for us all the grace to always conform our lives to those most holy documents which you have given to all peoples in your divine books through the particular impulse of the Holy Spirit, and under his dictation.

Glorious St. Luke, who for the virginity of which you constantly professed, you deserved to have a special familiarity with the queen of virgins, Mary Most Holy, who eruded you personally, not only in what regards her divine election as True Mother of God but still in all the mysteries of the Incarnation of the Word, of his first steps in the world, and of his private life; obtain for us all the grace to love us constantly the beautiful virtue of purity, to also deserve us those favors that the common advocate and our mother Mary always dispenses to the faithful imitators of her virtues.