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(OSV News) — When Father Rick Nagel first learned that the 10th National Eucharistic Congress would happen across the street from his parish, he wanted to tell everyone.
“I remember getting chills and kind of welling up with emotion of what God wanted, what he was going to do here in Indianapolis,” the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Indianapolis told OSV News. “Total joy and excitement and anticipation.”
“There is no more fitting backdrop for the National Eucharistic Congress to capture the unity, renewal and hope the Eucharist provides believers,” the archbishop says of the historic parish founded in 1837.
St. John’s — the first Catholic parish established in Indianapolis — aims to have all 2,500 of its parishioners involved in the congress. It plans to welcome, in a variety of ways, the tens of thousands expected to attend the congress taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Convention Center July 17-21. Most importantly, the church will serve as the congress’s perpetual adoration chapel.
Online, St. John’s reveals the breadth of its participation. Volunteer sign-ups encourage parishioners to help with adoration and a “Eucharistic Village” that will offer pilgrims food, drink and a place to rest. The four routes of the cross-country National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will converge there for Mass on July 16, Tuesday of Congress week. Father Nagel is hosting a “Eucharistic Revival Podcast” featuring parishioners’ stories of conversion and reversion. The parish is even part of an initiative to “paint the city” or spread the message about the congress by selling clothing printed with Latin phrases.
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“I remember getting chills and kind of welling up with emotion of what God wanted, what he was going to do here in Indianapolis,” the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Indianapolis told OSV News. “Total joy and excitement and anticipation.”
Parish involvement and preparation
His parish’s involvement in the upcoming congress — the culmination of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative by the U.S. Catholic bishops that seeks to renew the Catholic Church by enkindling a living relationship with Jesus Christ in the holy Eucharist — began when Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis filmed a video from St. John’s to announce the event’s location.“There is no more fitting backdrop for the National Eucharistic Congress to capture the unity, renewal and hope the Eucharist provides believers,” the archbishop says of the historic parish founded in 1837.
St. John’s — the first Catholic parish established in Indianapolis — aims to have all 2,500 of its parishioners involved in the congress. It plans to welcome, in a variety of ways, the tens of thousands expected to attend the congress taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Convention Center July 17-21. Most importantly, the church will serve as the congress’s perpetual adoration chapel.
Online, St. John’s reveals the breadth of its participation. Volunteer sign-ups encourage parishioners to help with adoration and a “Eucharistic Village” that will offer pilgrims food, drink and a place to rest. The four routes of the cross-country National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will converge there for Mass on July 16, Tuesday of Congress week. Father Nagel is hosting a “Eucharistic Revival Podcast” featuring parishioners’ stories of conversion and reversion. The parish is even part of an initiative to “paint the city” or spread the message about the congress by selling clothing printed with Latin phrases.
Hosting perpetual adoration
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Pastor: No better place to capture 'unity, renewal, hope' of congress than historic church
St. John's -- the first Catholic parish established in Indianapolis -- aims to have all 2,500 of its parishioners involved in the congress. It plans to welcome, in a variety of ways, the tens of thousands expected to attend the congress taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana...
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