{"id":271472,"date":"2018-01-17T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&p=271472"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:55:08","slug":"how-about-a-real-hail-mary-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/01\/how-about-a-real-hail-mary-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"How about a REAL Hail Mary pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This meme is working its way around social media\u2014and it\u2019s too good not to share.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the good folks at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

[img attachment=\u201d271473\u2033 align=\u201daligncenter\u201d size=\u201dfull\u201d \/]<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Minneapolis church is getting quite the reaction to a Facebook post playing off the Vikings\u2019 improbable comeback win Sunday over the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church took to Facebook with its own take on the 61-yard touchdown pass from Vikings quarterback Case Keenum to Stefon Diggs with 10 seconds left that gave the team its, er, miraculous, 29-24 win in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you made any promises during the last 10 seconds, Sunday masses are at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,\u201d the posting reads.<\/p>\n

That is the day the Vikings play the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC Championship Game and a trip to Super Bowl LII.<\/p>\n

In the day since the posting went up Monday, it was shared more than 7,100 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I already committed to confession \u2026 for the words I used during that last hour as well,\u201d wrote Nick Fritzen on the church\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Others called it a clever way to evangelize, while another called the posting \u201can infusion of grace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read on.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This meme is working its way around social media\u2014and it\u2019s too good not to share. Kudos to the good folks at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. [img attachment=\u201d271473\u2033 align=\u201daligncenter\u201d size=\u201dfull\u201d \/] The backstory:\u00a0 A Minneapolis church is getting quite the reaction to a Facebook post playing off the Vikings\u2019 improbable comeback win Sunday over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":271473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-mind"],"yoast_head":"\nHow about a REAL Hail Mary pass?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This meme is working its way around social media\u2014and it's too good not to share. 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