Parishable Items

• No Gospel of Luke or Acts of the Apostles.
• No stories about the Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation, the Finding of Jesus in the Temple, the Ascension, or Pentecost.
• No parables about the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Rich Man & Lazarus, and others.
• Mary, the mother of Jesus, would go unquoted in the Bible (apart from the Wedding Feast of Cana.)
• We wouldn’t know where John the Baptist came from, his parents’ names, or that he was related to Jesus.
• We wouldn’t know about the Good Thief’s conversion.
• We wouldn’t know of Jesus’ appearance on the Road to Emmaus.
• We would have no unified Bible narrative about the emergence and spread of the Early Church.

However, thanks to St. Luke, we are blessed with all of these things today.

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