Mac McTaggert took a close look at our St Mark's sign board on Sunday morning and came up with a simple expedient to add updated service times. Mac, the master print and Christmas and Greetings card maker, will look into the possibility of matching the Arial front of the white test on blue and add in the 10h30 and 12h00 service on a plastic slot that will be attached by the simple expedient of using double sided adhesive tape. It will look a whole lot better and the price is right.
The picture of the Lion may have led you to ponder as to it's origins. Here is something off the internet, that we ran a few days back.
"The traditional symbol for St Mark, the winged lion, is one of the four winged creatures of Ezekiel 1:10. Very early on, these creatures came to be associated with the four archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel) and to the four major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel).
By the second century after Christ, the four creatures became symbols for the four Evangelists (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) in written allusions. At least by the 5th century they became visual symbols.
Traditionally, it is said that the winged lion is chosen for Mark, because his gospel speaks of the royal dignity of Jesus Christ, and because he begins his account of St. John the Baptist with the, "voice of one crying in the wilderness" (like a roaring lion)."
Sourced from the Internet & the St Mark's editorial team.
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