CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Pope Leo
Pope Leo
Pope, Vatican City
Watch

Pope Leo in France: Holy Mass in Paris | Place de la Concorde | September 26, 2026

📅 Sep 26, 2026 EWTN News 169 MIN 176908 VIEWS 238 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Watch live as Pope Leo XIV celebrates Holy Mass at Place de la Concorde, in the heart of Paris. The Holy Father will celebrate a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Source of Salvation. The Liturgy of the Word will include the passage from Ezekiel about water flowing from the temple and bringing salvation, the responsorial psalm from Isaiah 12, and the Gospel of John: “Rivers of living water will flow.” Pope Leo XIV will deliver the homily during the celebration. The Mass will take place in one of the most symbolic locations of the French capital, a square whose present name evokes peace...

What Pope Leo said

Written from the verified transcript and checked against it. Every figure links to the moment it was said.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fountain of Salvation, in the Place de la Concorde in Paris on September 26, 2026. In his homily, delivered in French, he reflected on the Gospel of John 7, saying that Jesus is the source of living water that quenches humanity's deepest thirst for meaning, truth, and communion with God. He warned that material goods and distractions cannot fill the inner emptiness. He urged the faithful to drink from the pierced heart of Jesus and become sources of life for others, citing figures like Blandina, Pothinus, Irenaeus, Martin, Francis de Sales, Vincent de Paul, Frederick Ozanam, and Jean Jugan who drank from this water. He addressed families and young people, praying that the Holy Spirit's living water flows through France.

Key takeaways

  1. Pope Leo XIV celebrated a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fountain of Salvation, in Place de la Concorde, Paris, on September 26, 2026.
  2. He urged the faithful to drink from the pierced heart of Jesus to become sources of living water for others.
  3. The Pope prayed that the living water of the Holy Spirit may flow through all of France.
  4. He cited saints and martyrs from French history, including Blandina, Pothinus, Irenaeus, Martin, and Francis de Sales, as examples of living water.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
600,000 people lining the streets of Paris for Holy Mass metric 53:12

Chapters

  1. 0:00Opening of Mass and Introduction
  2. 1:10:32Readings and Gospel
  3. 1:20:54Homily on Living Water
  4. 1:43:16Eucharistic Prayer and Communion
  5. 2:15:58Archbishop's Address and Blessing
Christopher Wells 1:06 ↗
Thank you.
Definitely not pretty.
Look at that.
See?
He is here.
This is heat.
Up. Yeah.
Hey, hey, hey.
Heat. Heat.
Hey, hey, hey.
Heat.
Heat.
Stand up. Stand up.
Thank you.
Heat up here.
Heat.
Heat.
Let's go.
Thank you.
Heat. Heat.
Hey.
Come.
Hallelujah.
Come on.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Five.
Help me.
Up. Up.
Up. Up. Up.
Hail, hail, hail.
Hello. Yeah.
Up.
Hey, up.
Up.
Up.
Up.
Yeah.
Hell.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Hey, hey, hey.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Hey.
Up here. Up here.
Let's go.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Up. Up.
Up. Up.
Come on. Come on.
Yeah.
Up.
Yeah. Yeah.
Heat.
Hey, hey.
Up.
Okay.
You.
Hey, hey, hey.
Hey.
It up.
Hey, hey, hey.
Heat.
Heat.
Keep going.
With, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah.
Don't go.
Hallelujah.
Hey, down, hey, up.
Come down.
Hey, boys.
This is everybody. Woo!
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat up here.
Heat up here.
Heat up here.
Heat up here.
Yeah. Heat.
She sings a song.
Christ.
He sings to our creator.
To our creator.
How we sing, Santa Maria.
May the mischieve.
Nevertheless, merit, meant Passion, Sayable.
Is over.
Merit, Clement.
Lord, the not foreign mystic.
To the David, to divorce.
Foreign, recig.
The patriarch.
Then the prophet, then mart, confessor.
Redeem.
S Rosavior.
And you're, I heavior.
Yeah. Heat.
Hallelujah.
Praise be Jesus Christ, and welcome to Vatican Radio's livestreamed broadcast of Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV in the Place de la Concorde in the heart of Paris. I'm Christopher Wells. I'll be providing the English language commentary for today's liturgy.
Last night, Pope Leo celebrated vespers with clergy, religious and seminarians in Notre Dame Cathedral, again here in Paris.
Today's Mass is the second public liturgy that the Pope is celebrating during this apostolic journey to France.
The Place de la Concorde in Paris, in downtown Paris, is the largest public square in the French capital.
And we're told that some 600,000 people are here lining the streets of Paris to take part in the Holy Mass.
You can see on the video feed a sea of yellow and white papal flags and quite a few French flags as well.
Naturally, the Holy Father has arrived in the venue, if you will, for the celebration of Mass and is currently vesting for the liturgy.
And as we begin our broadcast, I would like to welcome everyone joining us around the world through the various Vatican media channels: the Vatican Audio or Radio app, the Vatican News web portal, the Vatican News YouTube channel, or view one of our partner stations including EWTN TV, Catholic Faith Network in America, Salt and Light TV, Shalom World TV, Madaran TV, Catholic TV, and Luminous Radio India.
A very warm welcome to all of you.
The Holy Father this afternoon will be celebrating a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fountain of Salvation.
And as the opening hymn begins, the procession will make its way to the sanctuary for the beginning of Mass.
All the, all the great to be, every single, heat, heat.
Father, sat.
Praise redee.
We save all the heat.
Yeah. Heat.
Heat up here.
Christmas, heat, heat.
Heat. Heat.
Praise and promise.
Still, my son says.
Christ.
He is all the heat.
Heat up here.
Heat.
Heat.
To his all, to be all.
Every single.
Holy praise all the soul. For he gave a son of sless.
The mother to every shall the journey.
And the Holy Father has arrived at the presider's chair to begin Holy Mass. I'll start with the sign of the cross.
Amen.
Pope Leo 1:04:07 ↗
Brothers and sisters, the Lord gathers us for the celebration of the Eucharist, source and summit of our life, with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Fountain of Salvation.
Let us turn our gaze toward God who loves our magnificent humanity, to welcome with a trusting heart the mercy offered to us.
Let us humbly recognize that we have sinned.
Everyone who has eternal. Amen.
Christopher Wells 1:05:37 ↗
Keeping the song here. There is, when there is in, he, song. He is, he is glory in this day. Oh, she, as I am to the day of every shace.
We all sorrow and sorrow. Is close to glory.

4 more exchanges in this transcript

Sign in free to read the rest of this interview. No card required.

Sign in to read the full transcript

Cite this transcript

APA, MLA, BibTeX
APA

Leo, P. (2026, September 26). Pope Leo in France: Holy Mass in Paris | Place de la Concorde | September 26, 2026 [Interview transcript]. EWTN News. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958639/

MLA

Pope Leo. "Pope Leo in France: Holy Mass in Paris | Place de la Concorde | September 26, 2026." EWTN News, 26 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958639/.

BibTeX 
@misc{leo2026_2958639,
  author       = {Pope Leo},
  title        = {Pope Leo in France: Holy Mass in Paris | Place de la Concorde | September 26, 2026},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, EWTN News. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958639/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}