For the first time, the distinguished and national basilica of Guadalupe will be the starting point and arrival of “feet on the way”, a sports career that seeks to promote sport and raise funds to support priests in vulnerable situation in Mexico City.
The Archdiocesan Jubilee race, to be held on March 30, will feature tours of 10, 5 and 3 kilometers, with leaving and finish in the Basilica of Guadalupe. The route will include the Guadalupe road, offering participants a significant route within the framework of the 2025 jubilee.
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Registration can be made online through www.emociondeportiva.com or in the Martí sports stores. The cost is 450.00 Mexican pesos (about 23 dollars) until March 28 at 4:00 p.m. (local time), while extemporaneous registration, available on March 29 during packages delivery, will be $ 650 (approximately 33 dollars).
The registration package includes a shirt and a commemorative medal, both with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Basilica, representative symbols for the Archdiocese of Mexico and the National Church.
Likewise, runners have been invited to arrive early on the event to participate in the Mass prior to the race.
A race with cause
At a press conference, Mexico’s primed archdiocese announced that it expects the participation of at least 3,000 people. According to Fr. Álvaro Lozano, Vicar of Pastoral, this assistance will allow to raise funds to provide a decent life to more than 200 major priests who require special care and attention.
He explained that the money will be channeled through the IGMA Foundation (Church, mercy and love), a private assistance institution dedicated to providing comprehensive care to elderly priests in a vulnerable situation.
Mons. Carlos Enrique Samaniego, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese, stressed that this race is part of the 2025 jubilee, convened by Pope Francis, and coincides with the culmination of the month of the family. Therefore, it is sought that both priests and religious and whole families can participate.
“We want to celebrate running under the gaze of the Virgin of Guadalupe, inviting the family union and to give a message of hope and faith,” said the prelate.
Diego López Colín
I am a graduate of journalism at the Carlos Septién García school with experience of religious institutional communication. Since 2016 I write for digital media and, since 2018, I report the most important news about the Catholic event in Mexico for the Ewtn news channel. ACI Press correspondent in Mexico since 2023.