Carlos Alcaraz, number 2 of the world of professional tennis, received the blessing of a priest of the Cathedral of San Patricio in New York, within the framework of the US Open 2025.
In a video published by the San Patricio Cathedral on Saturday, August 23, you can see a priest, wearing the classic clerical black cassock, which blesses Alcaraz in a living room at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel.
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In the images you can see the Catholic priest who makes the sign of the cross before an Alcaraz that bows his head to receive the blessing and the holy water that the presbyter sprayed him, and then talk with him relaxed.
“Blessings and prayers for players and all participants in the US Open!” Wrote the San Patricio Cathedral in its publication.
Carlos Alcaraz, 22, begins his participation in the US Open this Monday, August 25 at Arthur Ashe Stadium, facing the American Reilly Opelka.
Alcaraz, who was champion in the 2022 edition, is one of the great favorites along with the Italian Jannik Sinner, current world number one and defender of the title of the US Open 2024.
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.