The Feast of Saint Mark

“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” - Mark 12:29-30

Today is the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, one of the so-called “red days”, a reference to the liturgical color of the day that is used to note a martyr.

Mark, aka John Mark, is known to us through fragmented scriptural sources, but what we can see of his character speaks of a complex, realized human who is very much representative of the flaws and s…