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Being good is not enough, ultimately. Salvation is to live the life of grace poured out on us in the Sacraments, most especially Confirmation and experienced in our growth in wisdom, the gift of the Holy Spirit.  

These are the anticipated and the actual Mass attendance numbers for the weekend of Pentecost.

While meeting with the them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:1-11

The plan for Feast of the Ascension at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church

A note from our Music Director

” The Gospel says,“Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” Jn. 1:38-39

Bishop Edward Weisenburger has implemented gradual reopening of parishes for public worship. Learn about the Ascension and Pentecost.

"I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be." John 14

Our Catholic hospital workers need our support

Grab your favorite drink of choice and join Fr. John every Thursday night at 6 pm on Facebook live. Throughout the month of May he will be discussing Mary.

John (Jack) Gordon Forsythe II, 72, of Chicago, IL, and Marana, AZ, died with his beloved wife, Theresa at his side on Wednesday, April 29th, in Tucson, AZ

“Graham Greene, the Catholic novelist who could be as skeptical as anyone, was once invited to meet the saint (Padre Pio) while traveling in southern Italy with a “woman friend of mine.” Greene, writing in a letter later obtained by fellow novelist David Lodge, said he declined the opportunity “as neither of us wanted our lives changed! We were both Catholics.” From The Tablet, online

Pope Francis is encouraging all to rediscover the beauty of praying the Rosary at home in May