Mark's Gospel
Mark's Gospel Read Through
Thursday 21st November, St Nicholas Church Alcester
7pm
We will be reading through the entire Mark's Gospel to complete our year of study of this Gospel and to bring it together.
Come join us to either take a passage and read through or sit and listen, all welcome!
2024: the year of Mark's Gospel
During 2024 the lectionary encourages us to navigate the Gospel of Mark. The standard lectionary also picks up other passages of Scripture and can move around the Gospel.
As Alcester Minster we will instead be picking up the Gospel of Mark and aiming to read it over the course of the year, in the most part in order. At special festival times we will depart from the narrative and pick up the appropriate passages in Mark that will help us navigate a particular season.
In addition, the weekly devotional reading will go back over the Sunday reading in sections to enable us to dwell in the book a little longer.
There will be a number of special Mark based events across the year to help us engage with this Gospel in new ways including a presentation by Matt Britton in Lent where he will perform the whole Gospel for us.
Mark is a fast paced, action-packed Gospel which moves the narrative along quite quickly, and it’s the shortest of the four Gospels. It is most probably the earliest written Gospel. The Gospel writer is understood to have heard firsthand from Peter about Jesus which gives personal
insights into this account of Jesus’ life. You will often find him using words like immediately, to hurry us from one amazing story to the next. Because of this we don’t get all the stories and details that the other Gospels might include, like an account of Jesus’ birth. Mark wants to concentrate on what he feels is the most important message, that of Jesus himself. You will see that even when Jesus doesn’t appear to be the subject he is still the centre of attention.
There are two key questions we can ask ourselves each time we read Mark.
What does this passage tell us about Jesus?
How does this show us how to be a disciple?
Look out for the bookmark to support the daily readings. I hope you will join me in reading Mark, and together we will be encouraged by this Gospel.
Rev Katie Cross
To access all the recorded sermons please click HERE and it will take you to the google drive of MP3 files to download.
For every reading in Mark, a sermon from one of our churches will be posted here, so that you can keep following along and not miss part of the story.
Mark 16:9-20 (read). Recorded on 24.11.2024
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Mark 16:1-8 (read). Recorded on 17.11.2024
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Mark 1:14-20 (read). Recorded on 10.11.2024
Remembrance Day service on Church Green
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Mark 15:1-47 (read). Recorded on 3.11.2024
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Mark 14:32-51 (read). Recorded on 27.10.2024
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Mark 14:12-31 - Recording coming soon..
Mark 14:1-11 (read). Recorded on 13.10.2024
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Mark 13:32-37 (read). Recorded on 6.10.2024
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Mark 13:1-31 (read). Recorded on 30.9.2024
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Mark 12:35-44 (read). Recorded on 22.9.2024
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Mark 12:28-34 (read). Recorded on 15.9.2024
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Mark 12:13-27 (read). Recorded on 8.9.2024
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Mark 12:1-12 (read). Recorded on 1.9.2024
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Following the tragic death of Rev'd Steve Burch and Kathy Burch we also provided the following reading in the Sunday 1st Sept remembrance service:
Lamentations 3.15-24 (read) Recorded on 1.9.2024
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Mark 11:27-33 (read). Record on 25.8.2024
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Mark 11:12-25 (read). Recorded on 18.8.2024
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Mark 11:1-11 (read). Recorded on 11.8.2024
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Mark 10: 46-52 (read)
Mark 10:32-45 (read). Recorded on 28.7.2024
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Mark 10:17-31 (read). Recorded on 21.7.2024
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Mark 10:1-16 (read). Recorded on 14.7.2024
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Mark 9: 30-37 (read). Recorded on 7.7.2024
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Mark 9:14-32 (read). Recorded on 30.6.2024
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Mark 9:2-13 (read). Recorded on 23.6.2024
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Mark 8:31- 9:1 (read). Recorded on 16.6.2024
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Mark 8:22-30 (read). Recorded on 9.6.2024
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Mark 8:1-21 (read). Recorded on 2.6.2024
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Mark 7:24-37 (read). Recorded on 26.5.2024
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Mark 16:14-20 (read). Recorded on 19.5.2024 Pentecost
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Mark 7:1-23 (read). Recorded on 12.5.2024
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Mark 6:45-52 (read). Recorded on 5.5.2024
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Mark 6:30-44 (read). Recorded on 28.4.2024
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Mark 6:1-29 (read). Recorded on 21.4.2024
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Mark 5:21-43 (read). Recorded on 14.4.2024
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Mark 5:1-20 (read). Recorded on 7.4.2024
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Mark 16:1-13 (read). Recorded on 31.3.2024
Easter Sunday. Watch on YouTube
Mark 11:1-11 (read). Recorded on 24.3.2024 Palm Sunday. Download MP3 file
Mark 4:35-41 (read). Recorded on 17.3.2024
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Mark 4:21-34 (read). Recorded on 10.3.2024
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Mark 4:1-20 (read). Recorded on 3.3.2024
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Mark 3:20-35 (read). Recorded on 25.2.2024
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Mark 3:7-19 (read). Recorded on 18.2.2024
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Ash Wednesday Mark 1:1-13 (read).
Recorded on 14.2.2024
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Mark 2:23-3:6 (read). Recorded on 11.2.2024
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Mark 2:13-22 (read). Recorded on 4.2.2024
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Mark 2.1-12 (read). Recorded on 28.1.2024
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Mark 1.29-45 (read). Recorded on 21.1.2024
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Mark 1:14-28 (read). Recorded on 14.1.2024
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Mark 1:1-13 (read). Recorded on 10.1.2024
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