Orthodox 1107
“We must know also, that action is first called, then contemplation; for Peter is the type of the active life, for he was more ardent than the others, just as the active life is the more bustling; but John is the type of the contemplative life, for he speaks more fully of divine things.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:16-20
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗