St. Mark Episcopal Church in Crossett

05/23/2026

The readings for this week, Pentecost Sunday, include:

-Acts 2:1-21
-1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
-John 20:19-23
-Psalm 104:25-35, 37

05/18/2026

05/10/2026

As the church prepares to remember the Ascension of Our Lord, we recall this Sunday that he promises that he will not leave us orphans.

05/06/2026

Jesus meets our questions and our troubled hearts with a promise: he is the way, the truth, and the life. Even in the face of uncertainty or suffering, we are not left alone. We are being drawn into the very life of God. We pray for the grace to know him more deeply, and to follow where he leads, trusting that his way is the path to life.

05/04/2026

Most holy God, the source of all good desires, all right judgments, and all just works: Give to us, your servants, that peace which the world cannot give, so that our minds may be fixed on the doing of your will, and that we, being delivered from the fear of all enemies, may live in peace and quietness; through the mercies of Christ Jesus our Savior. Amen.

05/01/2026

The Episcopal shield explained.

03/31/2026

All are welcome to join us at 909 Hickory St., in Crossett, as we pray the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday and then celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord on Easter Sunday.

03/12/2026

"One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

This Sunday will be the fourth Sunday in Lent. Continuing the Lenten theme of moving from the darkness into the light, this week's Gospel passage will focus on the healing of a man born blind. The scripture readings will include:

•1 Samuel 16:1-13
•Psalm 23
•Ephesians 5:8-14
•John 9:1-41

(All texts can be read online here: http://lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent4_RCL.html)

The Collect: Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

02/27/2026

This Sunday, as we move into the second week of Lent, we will consider one of the Bible's most quoted passages: Jesus's conversation with Nicodemus, which not only contains the verse John 3:16 -- the reference that is so often painted on signs at athletic events -- but is also the reading from which we get the phrase "born again."

The scriptures for the week:

Genesis 12:1-4a
Psalm 121
Romans 4:1-5, 13-17
John 3:1-17

The collect for the week: "O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

02/13/2026

All are welcome.

02/05/2026

The readings for this Sunday, the fifth Sunday after Epiphany, will include:

• Isaiah 58:1-9a, [9b-12]
• Psalm 112:1-9, (10)
• 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, [13-16]
• Matthew 5:13-20

The Collect: Set us free, O God, from the bo***ge of our sins, and give us the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to us in your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.