• The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle – Feast

  Saint Mark 16:15-18 

  Jesus said to the eleven: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. 

  These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them…

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• Saint Mark 4:1-20 

  On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him  so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.

  And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them, Hear this! …

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• Saint Mark 3:31-35 

  The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him. 

  A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.”

  But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers…

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• Saint Matthew 25:31-40  In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.  Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’  Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’  And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’  Saint of the day: St Publius

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• Saint Mark 3:20-21 

  Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. 

  When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” 

  Saint of the day: St Sebastian

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• Saint Mark 3:13-19 

  Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him. He appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.

  He appointed the twelve: Simon, whom he named Peter; James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder; Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. 

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• Saint Mark 3:7-12 

  Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea. Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. 

  He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him. And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.” He warned them sternly not to make him known. 

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• Saint Mark 3:1-6 

  Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. 

  He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here before us.” Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent. 

  Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored. 

  The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death…

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• Saint Mark 2:23-28 

  As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. 

  At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” 

  He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? …

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