L to R: Sponsor Max Chapman and soon-to-be Catholic Jay Mingo are ready for Easter. Taylor Fisher is confirmed at the Easter vigil 2022 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Father Alec Sasse. Christine Cremer was her sponsor. Ashton Armenta, in the green dress, looks on. There are 37 new Catholics at St. Thomas this year. (photo: Courtesy of Jay Mingo and Husker Catholic)
For college student Jay Mingo, Communion was key to his entering the Church this Easter.
“The Eucharist really has been the driving factor for me in joining the Catholic Church,” he told the Register.
The sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will join 37 others at St. Thomas Aquinas Church on campus in becoming Catholic.
Mingo, a native Texan, was baptized as a nondenominational Christian. His father’s side of the family was Catholic; his mother’s was Protestant.
“I remember going to Mass with my grandparents, but not really understanding it,” he recalled to the Register. “I did have a pull towards the Catholic Church, though, from a young age.”
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, he spent time doing some intensive reading about the Catholic Church. He read materials from Ascension Press and Father Mike Schmitz and Catholic Answers; he explored such questions as praying to the saints and devotion to Mary and confession.
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