We are blessed to proclaim from Saint Mark’s Gospel currently at Holy Mass in these early weeks of Ordinary Time. As we know, Mark is the most bare-bones of all the canonical Gospels and, as I have ...

One of the most commonly held conclusions from modern New Testament scholarship is that the Gospel of Mark is the earliest gospel to have been written and that Luke and Matthew draw on Mark (and an ...

If you ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light ...

For the Rev. Gerard Schubert, chairman of the theater and dance department at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, next Wednesday evening’s opening of his original adaptation of the Gospel of St ...

The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death, burial, and the ...

Passiontide, the Easter festival that has an eclectic mix of artistic genres to suite all tastes, will be hosting British actress Polly March on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, for a dramatised reading ...

Beginning Monday, Feb. 26, the Rev. Steven F. McGuigan will offer a five-week series entitled “Exploring the Gospel of St. Mark.” The series will seek to explore the text of the first of the canonical ...

A Saint (Mark?) Reading, a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1470 (Wikimedia Commons). Why does Jesus rebuke Peter, admonishing him to “Get behind me, Satan”?

(RNS) — Of the four Gospel writers, Mark is the one you would not want to invite to dinner. But he is the one who will challenge you to listen more carefully and to think more deeply about Jesus. (RNS ...

Readings: Mark 11:1-10 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1-15:47 If the Passion of St. Mark’s Gospel were a murder mystery, the colt would be the key. Seems odd, doesn’t it, that Jesus, for the ...