The Road to Pentacost

The easter season continues to remind us to look upon our journey as one of faithful redemption. Eventually we get to the point where Jesus has left humanity all it needs and he turns over leadership of his church on earth to people.

Today, April 25, 2015, is the feast day of St. Mark the evangelist. A cousin of Barnabus, he was close to Paul as he begun his missionary work. His gospel was told from the perspective of peter, of whom he was a disciple. Peter is the rock, the person with whom this church was trusted by Jesus himself. 

Peter is a glistening example of the redemptive grace God offers us. A man who denied Jesus in his greatest moment of suffering, he was given a choice and he chose repentence and forgiveness. This is exactly why his storydiverges from the Judas story - because Judas had the chance to be forgiven and chose death.

We learn a lot about the backstory to our early church from St. Mark because of the witness he gives to St. Peter's account. He wrote his gospel in greek as a way to help instruct recent gentile converts to Christianity.

This is just another in a set of feast days in the Church that really reinforces the truth that Jesus was to save the whole world. We do have to show God our desire to love, and that is no easy task. So may God bless you in your road to living out your life's calling.

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