The thick walls of the Saint-Etienne church will now resonate with the sound of the Arabic language every Sunday.
Located at the bottom of the Place des Lices in Rennes, the building celebrated on October 9 the erection of the parish of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, of the Maronite rite.
This Christian rite comes mainly from Lebanon where the disciples of the monk Saint-Maron represent a third of the faithful, the same proportion as the Sunnis and the Shiites (religious currents of Islam).
In Brittany, the Maronite community will be able to celebrate a mass in Arabic every Sunday evening.
“The celebration made it possible to officially install this community in the Saint-Étienne church, which thus becomes the personal place of worship of the Maronite rite in the diocese,” said the diocese of Rennes in a press release.
“You thus have the chance to be able to pray in your own language”, rejoiced Maroun Nasser Gemayel, bishop of the Maronite faith in France, in front of the gathered faithful.
“We are happy to welcome you to this parish which will be yours.
You will enrich us by bringing us your prayer, your liturgy, your way of life, your culture and your spirituality,” Archbishop Pierre d'Ornellas replied.
Saturday masses will continue to be organized by the teams of the cathedral parish, in French and according to the Roman Catholic rite.
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