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@bportnoy15 @tedjfeeney This is nothing new for St. John. When the Super Bowl was in Indy, a zip line ended right in front of the church. The parish had a sign that read, “If you think that was great, come inside and see Jesus.” They had a ton of visitors.

Even the Catholic Churches of Indianapolis have caught the Final Four feeling this week

SOD: St. Francis of Paola (1416-1507)--Italian; hermit; founder of the Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi (Minim Friars); miracle worker; could read hearts and minds; advocate for the poor and oppressed; councilor to kings, peacemaker; catholicsaints.info/saint-francis-…

SOD: St. Francis of Paola (1416-1507)--Italian; hermit; founder of the Hermits of St. Francis of Assisi (Minim Friars); miracle worker; could read hearts and minds; advocate for the poor and oppressed; councilor to kings, peacemaker; catholicsaints.info/saint-francis-…

@FrHilderbrand Get your celebret ready to give to the Diocese of Orlando, Father. It'll soon be time for the first Mass on the moon. "Fly me to the moon, let me pray among the stars..."

the rectory will have Artemis II coverage constantly on in the background so cool to watch us take a lap around the Moon like small-town teenagers who just got their drivers' license

"I pardon you from the heart. Soon we will see each other before the divine tribunal. The same judge that is going to judge me will be your judge. Then you will have, in me, an intercessor with God." --Bl. Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, martyred #OTD in 1927 in Guadalajara, Mexico

SOD: Bl. Anacleto Gonzalez Flores (1888-1927)--Mexican; husband; father of 2; went to Mass daily; catechist; led a Catholic youth organization; led a peaceful opposition to Mexico's anti-Catholic government; arrested, tortured, executed as a martyr; catholicsaints.info/blessed-anacle…

"I pardon you from the heart. Soon we will see each other before the divine tribunal. The same judge that is going to judge me will be your judge. Then you will have, in me, an intercessor with God." --Bl. Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, martyred #OTD in 1927 in Guadalajara, Mexico

SOD: Bl. Anacleto Gonzalez Flores (1888-1927)--Mexican; husband; father of 2; went to Mass daily; catechist; led a Catholic youth organization; led a peaceful opposition to Mexico's anti-Catholic government; arrested, tortured, executed as a martyr; catholicsaints.info/blessed-anacle…

@FrHilderbrand Lonergan was also a hard plow...

don't worry kids, there's one thing no AI will ever be powerful enough to do: read & understand the collected works of Hans Urs von Balthasar

@FrHilderbrand Maybe AI could translate Karl Rahner from German into German like his brother Hugo said needed to happen.

@IMS @BobRahal I'll confess that I was rooting as much against Cogan as for Rahal. I had been a big AJ fan, but born too late. He won 3 of his 4 races before I was born. So, Cogan effectively taking him out at the start of the race in '82 was stuck in my mind. AJ could have won that race.

@IMS @BobRahal I was sitting between 1 and 2 for that race, the first I attended. A buddy and I were there and were just 15, basically on our own. An amazing experience. I was so glad to see Rahal come through 1 with the lead.

The pass that made history 🔥 40 years later, @BobRahal's victory at the #Indy500 still lives on.

@gandolfiqueen5 @NickFreiling We all do, very much including myself.

@SeanGIndy @NickFreiling Didn't know this. Powerful, truthful,and sadly some of our Shepherds need to seek Holiness and wisdom.

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right. Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law." But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."

Photos from the @archindy chrism Mass celebrated today. Coverage to come @criteriononline.

@Melody31Cecilia I remember the spring of 2005 pretty well, but I guess not in fine detail. I had been a reporter for on our archdiocesan newspaper for a little more than a year. I was 8 when JPII was elected and 34 when he died. It was moving for me, and busy, and exciting to report on it.

Yes. Normally John Paul II would have been at the Colosseum on Good Friday but he was very ill. He died a week later. 💔😞

@Melody31Cecilia I don't recall who presided over it. Maybe it was then- Cardinal Ratzinger. He wrote the text for the stations.

@drkamiller @NickFreiling The link was only for the ninth station, but you should be able to back out and get them all. They're good.

@SeanGIndy @NickFreiling Thanks for the link. I’ve read *about* these meditations in his bios. Now I’ll actually read and meditate on them. 🙏🏼

@amywelborn2 Around the time that The Passion of the Christ came out there was also "The Gospel of John," which kept its script entirely to the text. Christopher Plummer voiced the narrator, which was great. But he was reading from the Good News Translation, which wasn't great.

I watched it for the first time a few weeks ago - it's certainly interesting, idiosyncratic, faithful to the text (of course, the script is directly from the Gospel, nothing more) and the landscape (Matera, mostly - I've been there) and faces are distinct. But I didn't find it the Masterpiece-best-rendition-of-the-Gospel-story-Ever. "Given Pasolini’s approach here, this means that there are many, many scenes of Jesus Speaking Very Seriously while his listeners listen to him….Very Seriously. Just lots of words spoken in an unmodulated tone and much mutual intense staring. As I said, the faces are intriguing and the landscape is rough and glorious, but the final impact of the first half of the film for me was of a series of tableaux." There were some arresting scenes, though - and they all involved movement. More: amywelborn.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/pas…

Coverage to come @criteriononline and on @archindy social media accounts.