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This year, we are reading through all four Gospels.

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Welcome back to the Catholic Sprouts podcast where we are reading through all four Gospels this school year.

Today is Day 52, and this week we are introducing ourselves to the second gospel we find in the Bible, the gospel according to Mark.

Yesterday, we learned that Peter is the primary source of information from this gospel, and that Mark, who we hear about in the acts of the apostles, was a disciple of Peter.

Now, we won't start reading this gospel until next week, but let's pray that the Lord can prepare

our hearts to receive his message well.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created, and you will renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy of the earth. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

amen. So once again, as we prepare to read the gospel of Mark in a few days, we're doing some

background. Yesterday we talked about Mark himself. Now we're going to talk a little bit more

about the writing of this gospel, specifically,

when was this gospel written?

Now, there's a couple of clues that can kind of anchor us in a time.

So first of all, this gospel was obviously written before the year 70.

Remember, we start, we go from BC to 80 at the birth of Jesus. So we believe that

Jesus died and rose from the dead roughly in the year 33. And so we believe that this book was

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