Our parish school strives to offer quality education and enable our students to develop intellectually, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually as whole, responsible persons.

Currently our preschool program starts with "Tweens" ages 2/3 and ends with Pre-K 4, both full and half day.

Our elementary school is complete as of the 2001/2002 school year, Kindergarten through 8^th grade.

In addition to our core curriculum, which includes Religion, we offer programs in Art, Science Lab, Music, and various sports teams. We participate in an Art Fair, Science Fair, Miami Herald Spelling Bee, Math Contest, and Elocution Contest.

Current enrollment is 700 with a faculty and staff of 51.

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An organization of men within the parish that meet at 7:30 PM on the first Thursday of every month. Meetings include both spiritual and social activities, some with specific themes and gourmet feasts. Other activities include blood drives, bowling, support of a Catholic home for children, Christmas tree sale, Communion breakfast, Valentine party, All Hallow’s Eve family fun night, family picnic, golf classic, annual retreat, softball, bowling and basketball games.

All men of the parish are invited to join.

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Provides assistance to families in our parish and surrounding community through parishioner contributions. Food, financial assistance for rent, medicine, utilities and basic necessities, distribution of donated clothing and furniture included.

Referrals to other agencies for housing, domestic abuse/violence, drug/alcohol addiction. Distribute Christmas gifts to families, prepare Thanksgiving baskets, and help provide other Catholic charities with assistance.

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Fellowship, friendship and spirituality center our ministry is open to all women who worship at St. Mark.

We provide financial support and sponsor an annual Fashion Show, Holiday Craft sales, and doughnut sales.

Meetings held on third Thursday of each month.

All women of St. Mark are welcome.

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Promotion and support of the unborn child through various activities such as the Walk for Life, Life Chain, Saturday Prayer Vigils, and letter writing campaigns.

Supports the Diocesan Respect Life Ministry with appeals for newborn supplies, furniture and food, extensive counseling for women considering abortion as well as support and counseling for women who have had an abortion via "Project Rachel."

The entire worshipping community who are interested in learning more and becoming involved, or are in need of support are encouraged to call.

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Continuing education through bible studies, prayer groups, missions, workshops, days of reflection, the M.O.M.’s group, guest speakers, and "La Familia."

Something is always brewing! Join us!

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Through Baptism we are called to serve the Lord and bring Jesus to one another. This is brought about in a special way through the sacred Body and Blood to those assembled during Sunday and weekday liturgies.

If you are a mature Christian who takes their faith seriously and lives a genuine Christian life, this ministry may be for you. We always need new, interested volunteers willing to receive training necessary to be an EM.

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Our mission is to open our arms to you by welcoming you into our family and sharing with you our beautiful faith.

We provide an atmosphere where the searching can learn and grow personally and spiritually, in a gradual process.

Some who have participated in previous years have been unbaptized, some baptized in another faith, some baptized Catholic but have not received the other initiation sacraments.

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The St. Mark Choirs, English or Spanish, are open to all of St. Mark.

Weekly Rehearsals for English Masses:

Wednesdays at 7:00 PM

Weekly rehearsals for Spanish Masses:

Mondays after Novena at 7:30PM

The St. Mark School Choir joins the adult choir for many of the 9:30 AM Masses. Children belonging to the parish in general may join the adult choir for the 5:00 PM Saturday Mass, or the 6:30 PM Spanish Mass.

A wind ensemble joins us for Christmas, Easter and Confirmation, made up of students from local middle and high schools.

We bring the annual "Night of Music" from Broadway to the Movies each year, a musical production that all are invited to attend.

In addition to Masses, we come together for holy days, First Communion Saturdays, Confirmations, and other special celebrations.

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The Ministry of Lectoring allows lay men and women to proclaim the Word of God to the faith community.

Anyone may apply who has received the Sacrament of Confirmation. Training from the Archdiocese and within the parish is required.

An ability to prepare for and read aloud clearly is necessary. Meetings are held on a "need-to-know" basis.

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B*R*I*D*G*E* Bring Religious Instruction by Developing God’s gifts of Education and Evangelization.

It is the primary mission of our ministry to share the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and to bring to the children and young people of St. Mark parish our living Catholic faith.

We serve to enhance their faith formation in cooperation with their parents, who are the first and daily religious educators and faith transmitters of children.

The sole prerequisite to be a CCD teacher is a love of children. We will develop and train you – join us in sharing the love of Jesus with the children.

Classes for all grades are Tuesdays 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM, and Wednesdays 5:00 PM.

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Mondays from 8:30 AM through Tuesday 7:00 AM. As quoted by Pope John Paul II:

"I would like to repeat my invitation to you to make adoration of the Blessed Sacrament a habitual practice in all Christian communities. It is an expression of the whole Christian community’s love and worship of its Lord. Priestly, religious, and missionary vocations will stem from this meeting with Christ in the tabernacle, and will bring the light of the Gospel to the ends of the earth; in this crucible of the "Love of Loves," will be forged the apostolic spirit of lay Christians, witnesses to Christ amid temporal realities; in the intimacy of the tabernacle, the values that must reign in homes will receive new strength to make the family a meeting place with God, a center that radiates faith, a school of Christian life. In the Bread which came down from heaven, the family will be able to find the support that will keep it united in the face of today’s threats and will preserve it as a bastion of life, steadfast against the culture of death."

All are invited.

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Our ministry consists of many volunteers who give four to five hours, four to five days a year. Mothers with young children, grandparents, and often great-grandparents join us.

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All boys and girls from grade 3 through young men and women in high school are eligible to serve on the altar at Mass. All that is required is determination, reverence, and responsibility.

Please call for information and the next meeting.

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