Tour2France 2025

We have now come to the end of this beautiful new edition 2025, which started from St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of the Jubilee of Sport, with participants also from past editions of the Tour To France and with Team APRA from the Rome Marathon.

In the solemnity of the Holy Trinity, together with the more than three thousand faithful present, Pope Leo XIV recalled three aspects that make sport ‘a precious means of human and Christian formation’, namely collaboration, the concreteness of being together and the art of defeat that opens to hope. The Pontiff considers it a truly “beautiful” mission that the Church entrusts to sportspeople: to be a “reflection of God the Trinity” also for the good of their brothers and sisters. The Successor of Peter urges them to let themselves be involved ‘with enthusiasm: as athletes, as trainers, as clubs, as groups, as families’.

Lastly, he refers to the Mother of Jesus, so discreet but so full of solicitude, of dynamism, of ‘running’ towards God and others, as Pope Francis liked to recall. ‘Let us ask her to accompany our labours and our impulses, and to direct them always to the best, until the greatest victory: that of eternity, the ’infinite field‘ where the game will no longer end and joy will be full.’

Leone XIV: con l’allenamento quotidiano dell’amore si costruisce un mondo nuovo – Vatican News

Il Giubileo dello sport nella solennità della Santissima Trinità – La messa di Papa Leone XIV nella basilica Vaticana – L’allenamento quotidiano dell’amore edifica un mondo nuovo – L’Osservatore Romano

Then, led as always by our Alumnus Fr. Clemens, from the Sanctuary of Oropa in Biella to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy, to support the Pedaling for Scholarships campaign and offer scholarships to students of the University in financial difficulty by feeding the Good Samaritan Fund.