Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral celebrates the Feast of the Assumption: the program

Before being a public holiday, theAssumption is first and foremost a religious festival, celebrated every year by Catholics around the world on August 15, to honor"the death, resurrection, entry into heaven and coronation of the Virgin Mary". After years without a mass on this occasion due to the fire in 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will once again welcome visitors and pilgrims for services and a procession of the faithful through the streets of the capital on August 14 and 15, 2025.

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Organized every year since the 17th century, this traditional procession commemorates the vow of Louis XIII, a legislative text that placed France under the protection of the Virgin Mary.

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The program

Thursday, August 14, 2025

• 2pm: Reduced tours, opening of the Cathedral for celebrations.
• 5:15pm: Vespers
• 6pm: Mass
• 7:15pm: Jubilee procession in the Cathedral and ostension of the Crown of Thorns
• 8:15pm: Proclamation of the Gospel and preaching, followed by Louis XIII's vow.
• 9pm: Compline, followed by the end of the service and exit to the forecourt

Friday, August 15, 2025

• 8:30 am: Mass
• 9:30am: Lauds
• 10am: Mass
• 11:30am: Mass
• 3:45pm: From the forecourt, blessing and departure of the procession around the Virgin and Child of Charles X, presided over by Mgr Emmanuel Tois, auxiliary bishop of Paris
• 5:15pm: Return of the procession and solemn vespers
• 6pm: Mass presided by Mgr Emmanuel Tois

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