{"id":4015,"date":"2024-04-25T05:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T05:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2024-04-25T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T05:53:03","slug":"st-mark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"St Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u2018Go-out-to-the-whole-world-proclaim-the-Good-News-to-all-creation.-Twitter-Post-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u2018Go-out-to-the-whole-world-proclaim-the-Good-News-to-all-creation.-Twitter-Post-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4016\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1 Peter 5:5-14<\/strong><br><strong>Mark 16:15-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we celebrate the feast of St Mark the Evangelist we celebrate the gifts of a storyteller. What we read on the printed page had its origins in an oral culture. The early Church preserved in writing the memories and stories which shaped their identity. Mark&#8217;s Gospel is the first to be written. Biblical scholar Nicholas King SJ suggests we can credit Mark as the inventor of &#8216;gospel&#8217; as a literary form. If you were a well-to-do host in Graeco-Roman society you might pay a \u2018gospeller\u2019 to come and perform a gospel for your guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearing a Gospel performed in one sitting has a big appeal for me. Mark\u2019s brisk style would lend itself to this very well. Some of Mark\u2019s favourite phrases are \u2018immediately\u2019 and \u2018at once\u2019. Jesus is a man of action. Through the actions and words of Jesus Mark announces that a new era has dawned. This is the era of Good News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Christian community we still tell and retell our story. It is in the telling and retelling that we begin to learn who we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring to mind the significant stories in your life.<br>Thank God for those who have been storytellers in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 5:5-14Mark 16:15-20 When we celebrate the feast of St Mark the Evangelist we celebrate the gifts of a storyteller. What we read on the printed page had its origins in an oral culture. The early Church preserved in writing the memories and stories which shaped their identity. Mark&#8217;s Gospel is the first to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St Mark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}