A special feast day for those who follow Jesus! Not an apostle but treated as such, Luke was a disciple attracted to the life of the apostles by the words and works of the apostles through the inspiration and motivational works of another disciple, likewise treated as an apostle, St. Paul.
Newly beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman, English prelate, taught his hearers and readers that our lives are an experience of "callings," an experience of "vocations." So often the human being discovers, almost daily, a "calling" to accompish something that well might be an answer to along-sought searchings or simply a task that God knows is your skilll.
Isn't it clear that we who profess our belief in Jesus Christ have a unique and not so hidden "calling" in our world today. I believe we do. Your baptism and your confirmation are true callings, a genuine commands from God to live a model life that will bring about impacts in the communities where you reside and where you are employed. Imagine how different our Church might be had Peter reacted as the young man who rejected the invitation because his many possession were to distracting. Consider how our treasure of New Testament writings would be had Paul reacted differently to those first few days after his encounter with God's call to him.
It is examples such as these that serve as reminders to us that prayer is so very needed to be able to "hear" or "see" if God's calling to you not just once or twice but each day.
Come let us listen to the Lord
who speaks to us
through the treasures of Sacred Scripture.
