The Beginning of the Gospel: Introducing the Gospel According to Mark, Volume 1 (Mark 1-8:21) Author/Editor: Eugene LaVerdiere, S.S.S. Publisher Name: Liturgical Press Retail Price: $24.95 Publisher Website: www.litpress.org Audience: Adults Medium: Book
Description: Mark was a proclaimer calling people to repentance. At a time nearly everyone felt was the end of the world, he boldly told the story of the beginning. When so many were overwhelmed by what seemed to be bad news, Mark proclaimed the story of the good news in his Gospel. Using rhetorical and literary analysis, Eugene LaVerdiere introduces Mark’s story in The Beginning of the Gospel: Introducing the Gospel According to Mark. To aid those who prepare homilies, he shares Mark’s sense of Christ’s mission, the Christian calling, the universal Church, and the Church’s mission in a language that everyone can understand.
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Beyond Fear and Silence Author/Editor: Joan Mitchell Publisher Name: Good Ground Press Retail Price: $14.95 Publisher Website: www.goodgroundpress.com Audience: Adults, Academic Audience: Book Description: A Feminist Literary Reading of Mark This book offers a brilliant interpretation and empowering encouragement to Christian women. Although the women in Mark's gospel may be few and often nameless, they play a powerful role in the narrative. This literary reading provides a convincing and aesthetically satisfying interpretation of the gospel as a whole.
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Bringing Home the Gospel: The Year of Mark Author/Editor: Judith Dunlap Publisher Name: St. Anthony Messenger Press Order #: 978-0-86716-781-8 Retail Price: $10.95 Publisher Website: www.SAMPbooks.org Audience: Adult Medium: Book Refection Questions: 100 Available
Description: Designed for busy parents who want to share the faith with their family and reflect on their spiritual journey
A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark’s Gospel Author/Editor: Brendan Byrne, SJ Publisher Name: Liturgical Press Retail Price: $26.95 Publisher Website: www.litpress.org Audience: Adults Medium: Book
Description: With this study of the Gospel of Mark, Brendan Byrne completes his trilogy of works on the Synoptic Gospels. Mark, the "Cinderella gospel," as Byrne says, languished for millennia in the shadow of Matthew ("the first gospel") and Luke. Beginning in the nineteenth century, scholars uncovered what is now generally accepted as the more likely scenario: that Mark was the pioneer, creating a new literary genre ("gospel") in which to communicate the "Good News of Jesus Christ." This Good News according to Mark is essentially a message of freedom, however, that does "not come about without cost: a cost to Jesus, a cost to the Father, and a cost to those called to associate themselves with his life and mission." Mark holds out to us both the price and the promise of freedom.
A Costly Freedom joins The Hospitality of God (on Luke) and Lifting the Burden (on Matthew) to make up a set of indispensable companions to the gospels for preachers, teachers, and those who simply want to read the gospels for understanding and a deepening of their spirituality and faith.
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Mark: From Death to Life Author/Editor: Dennis Sweetland Publisher Name: New City Press Order #: 978-1-56548-266-1 Retail Price: $16.95 Publisher Website: www.newcitypress.com Audience: Adults Medium: Book Refection Questions: 3 to 4 per chapter
Description: "Sweetland writes with clarity and takes the reader chapter by chapter through Mark's narrative, pointing out the meaning of the Gospel in its original context but also offering succinct and thoughtful leads to how this powerful New Testament text can connect with Christian life today." (The Bible Today)
Liturgical Press St. John's Abbey P.O. Box 7500 Collegeville, MN 56321-7500 P: 320-363-2213 F: 320-353-3299 E: sales@litpress.org The Gospel According to Mark: Volume 2 Author/Editor: Marie Noonan Sabin Publisher Name: Liturgical Press Retail Price: $6.95 Publisher Website: www.litpress.org Audience: Adults Medium: Book
Description: The absence of stories of Jesus’ birth and infancy, a minimum of Jesus’ parables and a resurrection scene without sight or sound of the risen Jesus have tempted readers to shortchange Mark’s Gospel. Thanks to the insightful analysis and inspiring reflections of Marie Noonan Sabin, anyone studying this premier Gospel with her guidance will recognize the genius of the original author. Sabin asserts that Mark’s Gospel is not an eyewitness account or a work of biography or history. She writes, “What Mark gives us is far richer. He interprets Jesus in the light of the Hebrew Bible, showing Jesus to be not only a teacher of Wisdom but Wisdom itself, calling his followers to an unconventional wisdom, a way of living (and a way of dying) that he himself exemplifies.” The cover of this commentary from The Saint John’s Bible highlights Sabin’s thesis that the transfiguration of Jesus is pivotal to the Gospel: “The scene [9:2-8] overshadows both parts of the Gospel, emphasizing God’s creative, transforming, transfiguring power to restore life.”Sabin gives special attention to Mark’s key words and phrases (e.g., “release,” “rise up” or “be raised,” “straightway,” and “ecstasy”) and his pattern of twos and threes. Especially helpful are the summaries at the end of each chapter. Here is a commentary that will restore Mark’s prime place among the other two Synoptic Gospels.
ACTA Publications 5559 W Howard Skokie, IL60077 P: 800-397-2282 F: 800-397-0079 E: acta@actapublications.com Gospel Food for Hungry Christians: Mark Author/Editor: John Shea Publisher Name: ACTA Publications Retail Price: $29.95 Publisher Website: www.actapublications.com Audience: Adult and Youth Medium: CD
Description: Renowned theologian and storyteller John Shea offers his marvelous scriptural and theological insights into the Gospel of Mark. His captivating stories and examples relate John’s gospel to contemporary Christian life in ways that are “preachable, teachable and personal.”
A. Introduction; The Good Earth (4:1-20, 26-32) B. John the Baptizer (1:1-8) C. The Temptation of Jesus (1:12-13) D. Feeding the Crowds (6:30-52; 8:1-21) E. Who Do People Say I Am? (8:27-35) F. The Man Casting Out Demons (9:38-48) G. Marriage, Divorce and Children (10:2-16) H The Rich Man (10:17-30) I. James and John (10:35-45) J. Bartimaeus (10:46-52) K. Stay Awake (13:33-37); Death and Resurrection (15:33—16:8) L. Conclusion
Great to use while driving or meditating at home, this is a wonderful resource for preachers, lectors, liturgy planners, and the growing number of Catholics who meet in prayer groups.
Mark in the Lectionary: An Ecumenical Guide to the Sunday Gospels Author/Editor: Gérald Caron Publisher Name: Paulist Press Order #: 978-0-8091-4591-1 Retail Price US$: $19.95 Publisher Website: www.paulistpress.com Audience: Adults Medium: Book Refection Questions: 216 Available
Description: A study guide for preachers, as well as serious readers of Scripture, on the Sunday Gospel and First Testament readings, as well as a postmodern approach to the biblical text of Mark.
Six Weeks with the Bible: Mark: Getting to Know Jesus Author/Editor: Kevin Perrotta Publisher Name: Loyola Press Order #: 978-0-8294-1447-9 Retail Price: $7.95 Publisher Website: www.loyolapress.com Audience: Adults Medium: Book Refection Questions Available in the book
Description: This book is divided into six 90 minute sessions on Mark's Gospel. The biblical text is included along with an explanation of the cultural and religious setting, essential background material, and questions for refection and application.
