Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional for Friday, April 25th, 2025.

It's the Friday on the octave of Easter, first class with the color of white.

In this episode, The Meditation, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the resurrection.

Today's news from the church, in the United Kingdom, Christianity quietly resurrects.

And today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

But first the call act of today's Mass.

Almighty and eternal God, in the Easter sacrament thou instituted the covenant, whereby thou forgavest mankind.

Grant to our souls that what we outwardly profess, we may show forth in our deeds. As we've mentioned, this is the feast of the Friday

and the octave of Easter. So that's the mass you'll be hearing. And some feasts are transferred because of

Easter, some feasts are not. Well, the feast of today, St. Mark,

the Evangelist, is not one of those that is transferred to, say, next week or the week after. So,

poor St. Mark doesn't get his feast celebrated because of Easter. I'm sure he's okay with it in heaven,

but let's talk about St. Mark, the evangelist, anyway. And most of what we know about him comes

directly from the New Testament. He's usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12. When St. Peter

escaped from prison, it was to the home of Mark's mother that Peter went to and found some safety.

Paul and Barnabas, we know, took Mark along on the first missionary journey,

but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It's also evident from Paul's refusal to let Mark

accompany him on the second journey, despite Barnabas's insistence, that Mark had somehow displeased Paul.

But because Paul later asks Mark to visit him in prison, we can assume that the trouble,

whatever it was, didn't last long.

He wrote the oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels.

The Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus' rejection by humanity while being God's triumphant

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