Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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As a Baptist visiting Mass, Jerry Byrd felt an unexplainable hunger to receive the Eucharist, and wondered if he could do so without going through the trouble of becoming Catholic.

Sorting through that question helped him understand not only the beauty and truth of Christ's presence in the Blessed Sacrament, but also his own call to enter the Catholic Church, and eventually the priesthood.

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