About 200 individuals are anticipated to assemble in Rome from Might 16 to 18 for a world convention “Staking Our Lives” organized by the Vatican and the French Embassy to the Holy See forward of the Paris Olympics.
Might 7, 2024
Writer: Lisa Zengarini
As a part of the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, the French Embassy to the Holy See and the Vatican Dicastery for Tradition are organizing a world convention on Sport and Spirituality from Might 16 to 18.
The occasion referred to as “We put our lives on the road” (“Mettere la vita in gioco”, Italian) will collect round 200 individuals {of professional}/paralympic/beginner athletes, representatives of worldwide sports activities organizations, managers of sports activities golf equipment, college sports activities college students. /pedagogy/sociology/anthropology/philosophy/theology and people liable for the pastoral care of sports activities, who will mirror on the religious penalties of what has develop into some of the practiced and watched cultural actions in modern society.
The religious dimension of sport
Certainly, sport has all the time been associated to the religious dimension of life, as Pope Francis has emphasised on a number of events, famous Cardinal José Tolentino Mendonça, who will open the convention on Might 16.
“If we take a look at the historical past of sport in parallel with the historical past of the Church, there have been many moments when sport has been an inspiration and a metaphor for the lifetime of Christians, or when Christianity itself has enriched sport with its humanistic imaginative and prescient,” mentioned the Prefect of the Dicastery for Tradition and Training at a press convention on Monday to this occasion, which was additionally attended by Madame Florence Mangin, Ambassador of France to the Holy See.
Church and sport
Individuals will due to this fact attempt to perceive why sports activities are so fashionable in the present day, determine the dangers, assess their significance for constructing a extra fraternal, tolerant and simply society, and due to this fact discern how God manifests himself in sports activities competitors. The purpose is to search out a solution to 2 primary questions: “What does sport must say to the church?” and “What does the Church must say to sport?”. That is how the identify of the convention was chosen, Cardinal Mendonça mentioned.
Subjects mentioned on the convention
The primary day (Might 16) will cope with the connection between “church and sport” by sharing the testimonies of high athletes and a few concrete pastoral experiences that put sport on the service of the gospel and the gospel on the service of sport. The second day (Might 17) will deal with the connection “man and sport” via the reflection of a bunch of extremely certified audio system from Italian and French universities who will talk about sport by way of its pedagogical, philosophical, sociological and theological relevance. The third day (Might 18) could have a extra sensible dimension, with a solidarity sports activities occasion (fraternity relay) that can present civil society the social significance of sport itself.–Vatican Information
