More than 2,000 people gathered inside the Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time in Paris since a 2019 fire to take part in ...

Notre Dame Cathedral, its air thick with the smell of incense, on Sunday hosted its first Mass since the catastrophic fire of ...

8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated the first Mass during which the altar ... the altar and anointed the entire altar with chrism (blessed oil), which he spread with his ...

1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful ...

Sunday morning's liturgy ... chrism oil, incense and prayer, transforms the altar into a sacred centerpiece of the cathedral. Clergymen leave Notre Dame Cathedral after the inaugural mass at ...