Authorities and athletes celebrate traditional Sports Mass at the Church of the Divine Shepherdess in Caracas

Published at: 06/01/2025 10:00 AM

This January 6, the traditional Sports Mass was held, to pay tribute to all the Venezuelan athletes who fight every day to leave the country's name high.

The main Eucharist was held at La Divina Pastora Church and was attended by the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez; the first vice-president of the National Assembly (AN), Pedro Infante; the mayor of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez; the Minister for Sport, Arnaldo Sánchez, the president of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee, María Soto, athletes, coaches, and workers in the sports sector.

The Vice President announced that the 80th celebration of the Mass for Sport was held at the national level, in all the states of the country.

“We have come to ask God for our athletes who participate in all national and international events. We also thanked him for all the fruits that Venezuela is yielding in sports and we also lost because of the National Sports Plan, for the massification and territorialization of sports in all the communal circuits that already mark the route of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games,” he said.

He also added that they also thanked for the sporting glories and prayed for those who have already left and have sown.

Rodríguez thanked the entire sports community and those who approached the pastor community, to ask for peace, the future and for the tranquility of the country.

“We Venezuelans want Peace, so that no one should be mistaken because we are going to be very forceful in civic, military and police union. Justice will be applied. Know that here there is a State that guarantees human rights and peace,” he said.

The Sports Mass has its origin in a tradition that dates back to January 6, 1945, when the parish priest Francisco Castillo Toro paid homage to baseball players Salvador Argüelles and José Pérez Colmenares.

Mazo News Team