Daily Devotion for 18 October 2025 (19th Saturday after Pentecost)

• Psalm 75
• Psalm 77
• Deuteronomy 17:1–20
• Matthew 14:1–21
• Apology of the Augsburg Confession XXI:38–44

Festival

Today we celebrate the Festival of St. Luke, Evangelist. A traveling companion of St. Paul, St. Luke was a Greek physician, who would author one of the four Gospels and the Book of Acts. It is Luke who gives us details of Christ’s birth and many other events. Taken together, The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts comprise over a third of the New Testament.