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The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

016: Hey! What About The Youth? (with Mark Hart)

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Are you concerned about your children and grandchildren? Do you worry whether or not they'll stay in the faith? Have they already left? Allow me to introduce you to someone who has devoted his life to doing everything he can to help them stay, or bring them back. His name is Mark Hart, and he's the Executive Vice President of Content and Identity at Life Teen, one of the leaders in evangelizing young Catholics. Join us as we discuss the current state and future of our youth...the future of our Church. And we're not just talking problems. We're talking solutions. God bless! Matthew "All who have been lost were lost because they did not pray." St. Alphonsus Liguori. Don't be lost! Grab your FREE copy of my quick guide to deeper prayer 8 Ways To Jumpstart Your Prayer Life!  It's an easy step-by-step summary of the spiritual giants of the Church designed to help you rocket to God!   Please take a moment to leave the show a rating! Doing so helps promote the podcast and gets Catholic material in front of people who may never otherwise be exposed to the faith. Thank you!!

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0:00.0

This is the art of Catholic.

0:15.0

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

0:20.5

Those are pretty comforting words from Psalm 226 for parents everywhere and I'm hoping

0:25.4

the rest of the show is going to add to that comfort too.

0:28.4

Hello everyone from Studio Number 2 at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

0:32.6

I'm Matthew Leonard and this is the art of Catholic.

0:36.4

I've got another fantastic guest for you guys today.

0:39.5

His name is Mark Hart, a name which I'm sure is familiar to a lot of you.

0:44.1

For those of you who don't know who Mark is, he's a research fellow at the St. Paul Center,

0:47.8

but his full-time gig is Executive Vice President for Life, Teen, International.

0:52.2

And he went to an old background on him, he went to some school called the University of

0:56.9

Notre Dame.

0:57.9

Go Irish.

0:58.9

He's a 20-year veteran of Youth Ministry.

1:01.7

He also speaks all over the place. He's pretty in demand in both youth and adult gigs.

1:08.0

And he's devoted a large part of his life to helping our youth.

1:12.0

And remember the youth, they're the future of our church.

1:15.0

And so really Mark helps them develop a deep relationship with the Lord.

1:21.0

And that is exactly what they need. It's what every one of us needs.

1:25.4

Now, before I get to him,

1:27.0

I want to give a great big thank you

1:28.8

to my friends over at Lighthouse Catholic Media.

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