Feast of St Mark. 'Having one soul and one heart, the Church holds this faith, preaches and teaches it consistently as though by a single voice.'
St Mark's Basilica, Venice [ Wikipedia ; photo ] The Church celebrates the Feast of St Mark the Evangelist on 25 April. The Second Reading in the Office of Readings in the Breviary is from the treatise Against Heresies by St Irenaues. Here it is, with highlights added. [ Source ] The Church, which has spread everywhere, even to the ends of the earth, received the faith from the apostles and their disciples . By faith, we believe in one God, the almighty Father who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them . We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became man for our salvation . And we believe in the Holy Spirit who through the prophets foretold God’s plan : the coming of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, his birth from the Virgin, his passion, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension into heaven, and his final coming from heaven in the glory of his Father, to recapitulate all things and to raise all...