A “troublemaker” who was expelled from public school in seventh grade, Dr. R. Jared Staudt was taken in by a Catholic school despite the principal’s misgivings.
It was the priest who gave him a second chance and then asked him to come and serve a daily Mass for his jubilee anniversary.
Staudt agreed. For the first time, he felt the Lord calling him to be a disciple.
“For me, that was my first encounter with Jesus Christ … really encountering him as a person,” Staudt recalled.
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