Mark is our guide during the Sundays of Ordinary Time in Year B and during the winter and spring weekdays of Ordinary Time. We usually celebrate his feast on 25 April, though it will be ignored in 2011 as we shall be celebrating Easter Monday on that date. So I have an excuse to give below the hymn proper to his feast day!
The Saint who first found grace to pen
The Life which was the Life of men,
And shed abroad the Gospel’s ray,
His fame we celebrate today.
Lo, drawn by Pentecostal fire,
His heart conceived its great desire,
When pure of mind, inspired, he heard
And with his hand set forth the Word.
Then, clearly writ, the Godhead shone
Serene and fair to look upon;
And through that record still comes power
To lighten souls in death’s dark hour.
O holy mind, for wisdom fit
Wherein that Life of lives stood writ,
May we through minds of like accord
Show forth the patterns of our Lord.
And so may all whose minds are dark
Be led to truth by good Saint Mark,
And after this our earthly strife
Stand written in the Book of Life.
Praise God Who made the world so fair,
And sent His Son our Saviour there,
And by His Holy Spirit wist
To teach the first Evangelist.
Laurence Houseman (1906)
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