Be warned! Year B has begun! Year B is, of course, the second of the three-year cycle for the Lectionary at Mass. In Year A, we read from Matthew for the Gospels of Ordinary Time; in Year B, Mark; in ...

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 ...

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 ...

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear: “The KJV actually sang quite well.” When composer Christopher Tyler Nickel set out to create an oratorio of Mark’s gospel, he made an ambitious decision to ...

One of my favorite movies growing up was "Back to the Future." You’ll recall Michael J. Fox is Marty McFly, and the kooky scientist, “Doc,” develops that time-traveling DeLorean. In the original movie ...

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