The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Mons. José Gomez, received in the cathedral the members of the Rayados de Monterrey team, his hometown in Mexico, which participates in the FIFA Club World Cup that is played in the United States.
“It was excellent to receive the visit of the football club of my hometown, the Rayados de Monterrey!”, Wrote the prelate of Mexican origin on their social networks, where he published some photos of the meeting this June 25.
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“We talked about sports and faith in the cathedral and we made a special visit to the chapel where we have a relic of the miraculous tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe,” said the archbishop and former president of the United States Catholic Bishop Conference.
The Rayados de Monterrey, led by the Spanish Sergio Ramos, “will play tonight at the Rose Bowl. We are scratched!”, Concluded the archbishop.
The Monterrey Rayados are in the E Group E of the Club World Cup, in which they have already faced Inter Milan, with which they tied 1 to 1; and with the River Plate of Argentina, with which they tied to zero goals.
With 2 points and in the third place in their group, the Rayados face the Urawa Red Diamond in Japan tonight, with the possibility of classifying the round of 16 of the Club World Cup.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.