The swiftest Gospel, complete — from your first easy sentence to Jerome's own Latin.
Mark is the shortest and fastest of the four Gospels. Its watchword is statim — "immediately": fishermen drop their nets mid-cast, crowds press in, storms rise and are stilled in a breath. That pace makes it the perfect Gospel to read straight through in Latin — and this volume covers every verse, Mark 1:1 to the empty tomb, as a single climbing ladder of twenty-two graded chapters.
The method is the series' own: easy Latin retells each scene first, every new word explained in Latin in the margin; the language grows chapter by chapter — and whenever Jerome's real words come within reach, they stand apart in a gilded panel marked hoc ipsum legis — "this, you are truly reading." By the closing chapters you are reading the Vulgate itself, and the complete unaltered Gospel waits in the back to prove it.
"Et ait illīs: Trānseāmus contrā. …Et facta est tranquillitās magna."
— Mārcus 4: the storm stilled — the scene on this book's cover
A Complete Gospel, Start to Finish
Where Vol. I walks the grand arc of Matthew in graded selections, Vol. II gives you the whole of Mark: John at the Jordan, the calling of the fishermen, Legion among the tombs, the daughter of Jairus, the loaves, the Transfiguration, Bartimaeus, the Passion, the Resurrection — every pericope, in order, each opening with a full-page photorealistic plate. Finishing this book means something simple and true: you have read an entire book of the Bible in Latin.
No Volume Required Before It
Each Gospel in the series stands alone — the ladder starts from zero every time. Read Mark first if its pace calls to you, or pair it with Matthew; the shared vocabulary and method mean each volume makes the next one easier. Published by our sister imprint, Contemplative Sciences Press; language help only, never doctrinal commentary — at home in Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and classical-education settings alike.
