(NCR. Matthew McDonald).
Zack Short was kneeling during adoration last fall, silently struggling with whether the Host in the monstrance was actually Jesus or merely a piece of bread. To his left was his girlfriend, Katie, a Catholic who had invited him to join the campus ministry’s catechism program for converts. “I was like, ‘Lord, if this is really you, please speak to me. Lord, help my unbelief,’” Short recalled. “I kid you not: I saw light coming out of the Eucharist. It just clicked for me: This is really God.” Later, he asked Katie if she saw the light. She didn’t. Short, 19, a sophomore majoring in mechanical manufacturing engineering technology who grew up going to a nondenominational church in Colorado, entered the Catholic Church during last month’s Easter vigil Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M.