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About St. Luke’s Church
As a faith community of the Philippine Independent Church, St. Luke’s Parish is a member of
one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. St. Luke’s is a congregation of new people, educated in and liberated by the teaching
of Christ, dedicated to the worship of God in spirit and in truth, nourished and sustained in the Eucharist, and commissioned
to be witnesses to God's love in the world.
In 1992, St. Luke's started its mission in Villa Park, Illinois with Father Alberto Liggayu
as rector, and then the congregation moved to Bloomingdale in 1995 to continue serving the growing Filipino
community in DuPage County and in nearby west suburbs of Chicago. With the kindhearted hospitality of the Episcopal Church
of the Incarnation, St. Luke’s congregation has been using their facilities for worship and fellowship every Sunday.
St. Luke’s community is comprised primarily of first and second generations of Filipino families. A family-sized congregation,
its members nurture their faith through prayers, fellowship and service.
Saint Luke the Evangelist Luke was a Gentile, a physician, and
one of Paul’s fellow missionaries in the early spread of Christianity through the Roman world. He has been identified
as the writer of both the Gospel which bears his name and the Book of Acts, also known as the Acts of the Apostles. In Acts,
he tells about the coming of the Holy Spirit, the struggles of the apostles and their triumphs over persecution, of their
preaching of the Good News, and the conversion of other disciples, who later became Church missionaries. Early tradition has
it that he wrote his Gospel in Greece and that he died at the age of eighty-four in Boeotia. His feast day is commemorated
on October 18. Almighty God, who inspired your servant Luke
the physician to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of your Son: Graciously continue in your Church this love
and power to heal, to the praise and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. -- From the Lesser Feasts and Fasts
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