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Dcerninghearts.com presents Inside the Pages,

insights from today's most compelling authors.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined by Mike Pacer.

Mike and his wife, Lori, are the founders and directors of evangelize all ministries,

an apostolate that promotes a powerful plan for parish evangelization and renewal. He's also the author of

prayers for Catholic men and co-author of God is. With Mike Pacer, we go inside the pages of

Mercy and Hope, published by Ignatius Press.

Mike, thank you so much for joining me.

Chris, it's an honor.

Mercy and hope.

What a delight.

What led you to compile all of this in the first place?

I think, you know, it's kind of a combination.

And obviously, I wrote about mercy and I wrote about hope and they're very intermingled.

But I think for myself it was kind of a journey of first coming to mercy and then coming to hope.

And I think it's that probably in my background and maybe I'm like a lot of people,

I don't think I grew up with a sense of mercy or of hope.

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