Deacon Mark serves at Corpus Christi parish in Tucson, AZ, and has been an institute teacher for more than 10 years. A life-professed third-order Dominican, he holds an MA (pastoral ministry) from the University of San Francisco. He teaches Called & Gifted and offers parish missions on gifts and missionary discipleship customized to parish needs. His homilies are online at cccctucson.org. His recreation is deep-water aerobic exercise, in which he became a certified instructor in 2005.