04/25/2026
Steward Saint: St. Mark the Evangelist
Feast Day: April 25
St. Mark was an evangelist, a teller of the Gospel story, but he did not experience those events first-hand. He heard the stories from St. Peter and wrote them down, careful not to omit or falsify anything of what he had heard. His Gospel recounts the life of Christ from Bethlehem to Calvary, not as a purely historical record, but as a proclamation of the truth that Jesus is the Son of God. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, St. Mark used his talents as a writer with the result that the Word he heard and believed could be heard and believed and lived by Christians twenty centuries later! In the Acts of the Apostles, we learn that he also made several journeys with St. Paul and consoled St. Paul while he was in prison in Rome. St. Mark, pray for us!
