Notre-Dame reopening ceremony
It was with great emotion that we were invited, after 68 months of waiting, to the grandiose ceremony marking the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral on December 07, 2024. We know that over a billion people were connected to this national and universal, liturgical and religious ceremony. Notre-Dame had moved the world in 2019 as she […]
Church – Chapel – Sanctuary – Cathedral…
Have you ever wondered why this building that could have been called a church was actually a chapel? And why this immense edifice turns out to be a basilica and not a cathedral? Is it to do with the size, the period of construction, or the community that occupies it? A question of relics or […]
Boutique Sainte-Rita: beauty at the service of faith!
The boutique at Chapelle Sainte-Rita has recently been completely renovated to better meet the expectations of our faithful visitors, who are eager to discover a diverse range of devotional articles and spiritual books that nourish their faith and inner life while adapting to today’s aspirations. The devotional objects we offer, whether rosaries, medals or candles, […]
Paroisse St-Joseph de Rueil Malmaison
With their pastors, Fathers Antoine Vairon and Jean-Louis Rouvière, some 50 parishioners of St-Joseph, from the diocese of Nanterre (92), made a pilgrimage to Saint Rita on November 24, 2024. After a presentation of our shrine and its patroness, the group prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, meditating on God’s presence in our lives, which we […]
Back-to-school day for staff of the Bishopric of Nanterre
On September 19, all the staff of the various departments of the Nanterre “Maison diocésaine” met with Mgr Matthieu ROUGE and the Vicar General, Father Georges Vandenbeusch, to begin the year 2024-2025 together, to establish and share the objectives to be achieved, the challenges to be met, and the major events that will mark the […]
Cascia pilgrimage
In the footsteps of Rita, a woman of action and contemplation! From May 30 to June 03, 2024, departing from Nice, nearly 45 pilgrims traveled by bus to Cascia, to experience a time of discovery of Saint Rita: her faith, her hope, her charity. How can we understand the heroism of this woman in her […]
Priestly ordination of Father Guillaume Charbonneau OMV
It was with great joy that we experienced together this singular event, that of the priestly ordination of Father Guillaume Charbonneau, OMV. Guillaume hails from Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France. Since his childhood, he has attended the Church of the Annunciation, where the continual veneration of Saint Rita can be found in a […]