How to get an "A Plus" during the Year of Faith (Fr. Mark Clarke, C.M.F.)

¨Fr. Mark Clarke, CMF, was born and raised in Southern California. He felt the call to be a priest in the eighth grade, and in high school attended the minor seminary in Los Angeles.  After graduating, he decided not to continue on in the seminary and began working.

¨He was a paramedic trainee for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, then attended Chapman University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Minor in Biology in 1986.  He did his graduate work at California State University, Los Angeles and worked as an analytical chemist in the pharmaceutical industry in Irvine where he lived for five years.