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Many thanks to everyone for your patience and support during these trying times.  Our streamed Masses will help keep us connected to St. Mark until our Masses resume.  If your means allow, please support your Parish.

"If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long since cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber." Flannery, O'Connor

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul.

"Therefore, it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.” Eph. 5:8-14

Here are a few ways to cope with the changes from COVID-19

Please review the list of cancellations to our parish events in response to coronavirus

“Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed. They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.” Psalm 106

Kathleen Margaret Lancaster, 73, of Oro Valley, passed away on March 10, 2020.

Elizabeth B. Hahn, 96, passed away on March 3, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona.

Please review the Diocese of Tucson resources below that we have compiled in regard to Coronavirus.

Author's Day will highlight a number of our parishioners that are published and self-published authors.

Carolyn Ann Campbell, 71, passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona.

Insight is that mental (or inward) activity by which the mind grasps the intelligible connections between things that previously had appeared merely disparate. This act of understanding “sees” a pattern in data, where “seeing” is only a metaphor from physical sight. Tekippe, Terry J.. What is Lonergan Up to in "Insight"?: A Primer (Zacchaeus Studies: Theology) (p. 50). Liturgical Press. Kindle Edition.