On the Jubilee of Sport in mid -June, the Augustinianum Institute in Rome will host a global convention to discover the Church’s want to help the “Impulse hope” supplied by Sport.
By Giampaolo Mattei
The Jubilee of Sport is scheduled for June 14-15 and can open with a global convention, entitled “The second of hope”.
Organized by The Dicastery for Tradition and Training, the convention will happen on the Augustinian patristic Pontified Institute, close to St. Peter’s Sq..
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, the prefect of Dicasteriei and Thomas Bach, the president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, will ship the opening observations.
After that, 4 athletes will share their testimonies “from the sphere”.
– Sergio Conceição, in Portugal, the present coach of AC Milan and the participant Forer for Porto, Lazio, Parma and Inter, as wells a member of his nationwide crew;
-Tebogo, a 22 -year -old Olympic champion on the Paris 2024 video games in Botswana. On August 29, 2024, he met Pope Francis and shared his mom’s reminiscence, who died of most cancers;
– Valentina Vezzali, one of many largest fences in historical past, with 9 Olympic medals (six gold) and 26 world championship medals (sixteen gold);
– Impreli Castro Grueso, a shawl who competed with the crew of Paralympic refugees on the Paris video games. Born in Colombia, his mom was killed at 16, and later misplaced the usage of toes in a highway accident and located redemption in life via sport – and particularly by religion.
Different shows on the convention will embrace Giampaolo Mattei, the president of the Athletics Vatican; The Spanish priest and the Olympic Olympic Olympic Participant Litus Ballbé Sala; Paola Gigliotti (Calea Frassati); Sister vendor Francesca Scia talbetta; and photographer Giovanni Zenoni.
The occasion shall be moderated by Novella Calligaris, a journalist for Italian Information Outlet Rai Information 24 and Swimming Star, and Alessandro Gisotti, Director Deputy editor of The Dicastery.
Anybody can register to take part within the Worldwide Convention at www.dce.va via the next hyperlink:
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