A Mass was held at St. Therese Chinese Church in Chinatown on Feb. 2 as a special celebration of the Lunar New Year, which started Jan. 31.
Incense burns on a table before the altar. The incense symbolizes prayers going up to heaven and was presented as part of an ancestral veneration ceremony at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church on Feb. 2.
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