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WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? I’m actually re-reading What Jesus Saw from the Cross by the late Father Sertillanges and To Know Christ Jesus by Frank Sheed.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? The Lord looking at me and saying, “You didn’t know me.” After that, not a lot. I can handle snakes, but I do hate rats.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? Close talkers with no sense of personal space … especially in line for confession or at Subway.
WHO DO YOU ADMIRE? Parents who really take their vocation seriously. Priests and religious who love their vocations.
IF YOU HAD UNLIMITED RESOURCES, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The exact thing I do now … preach and share and teach the Gospel (I’d just sleep in later).
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FEAST DAY?
Mark Hart
Feast of St. Joseph, hands down. Only day he gets the props he so rightly deserves.
WHAT IS YOUR BEST QUALITY? My humility … just kidding. Can you imagine if someone actually said that? I like to make people laugh and, whenever possible, help them to spiritually and emotionally exhale a bit.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST RISK YOU’VE TAKEN? MARK HART WAS PREVIOUSLY A PARISHIONER AT ST. HUGO OF THE HILLS IN BLOOMFIELD HILLS AND CURRENTLY SERVES FULL TIME AS CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER OF LIFE TEEN, A CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY MOVEMENT BEING IMPLEMENTED IN THOUSANDS OF PARISHES IN THIRTY COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE. A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, MARK IS A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF OVER A DOZEN BOOKS, A POPULAR SPEAKER AND SIRIUSXM RADIO HOST. MARK AND HIS WIFE, MELANIE, HAVE THREE DAUGHTERS (HOPE, TRINITY, AND FAITH) AND ONE SON, JOSIAH. THEY LIVE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
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I said yes to ministry. Biggest and riskiest decision of my young life and now, 27 years in, I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I hadn’t. God is never outdone in generosity, and I wouldn’t do it any differently.
WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY? Growing up in the snow in the Midwest, all bundled up in winter gear to a point where I couldn’t put my arms down (like that kid in “A Christmas Story”). There’s a reason I live in the desert now.
DIEGO DIAZ, ILLUSTRATOR
