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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.  

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

“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

And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” Luke 3:10-11

Enjoy this mini-series from Father Serge about his Dominican sister, St. Catherine of Siena.

The entire story of Scripture, from the first book, Genesis, to the last, Revelation, is the story of Divine Providence. St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas both believed that God, in his Divine Providence, exercised care and foresight for his creation and our well-being. So do I. Fr. John

St. John Henry Newman said, “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” Divine Mercy Sunday is a time to consider the role of change in our lives. We are imperfect creatures. God’s mercy allows us time and grace to change, to be transformed, into who God made us to be.

The Holy Father's message is loud and clear: caring for our environment is a fundamental tenet of our Catholic faith.

"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters." Gen. 1:1

"Join in procession with leafy branches up to the horns of the altar. You are my God, I give you thanks; my God, I offer you praise. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his mercy endures forever." Ps. 118

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.