The Week in Pictures: August 17 – 23, 2020

What does Orthodoxy look like through the keyhole? What does it mean to carry your cross or to be merry even beyond death? Our selection of photos from last week answers all these questions.

Saint George the Pilgrim was honoured at “Saint John the Baptist” Church, foundation of Ruler Prince Saint Stephen the Great, place of prayer and home of Elder George Lazar between 1890-1916. Photo: Doxologia.ro
Every year thousands of believers go on pilgrimage to the Holy Mount Grabarka in Poland. Photo: Instagram / Aleksander Wasyluk
Agapia Monastery and its multicoloured flowers. Photo: Facebook / Cristian Marin
The Transfiguration of the Lord was celebrated according to the unrevised Julian calendar (August 19) in the church on Mount Tabor where Patriarch Theophilus III of Jerusalem celebrated the Divine Liturgy. Photo: jerusalem-patriarchate.info
The Transfiguration of the Lord was also celebrated in the Church of Serbia according to the old calendar. Patriarch Irinej celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Lipovac Monastery. Photo: spc.rs
Moment captured during the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on the feast of the Transfiguration. Photo: Moscow Patriarchate / Serghei Vlasov
X Factor finalist Cristian Moldovan, at the chant stand at Nicula Monastery. Photo: Darius Echim
Exquisite perspective captured by a photographer through the keyhole of a church door. Photo: Facebook / Mihai Roman
His Eminence Casian, Archbishop of Lower Danube, met with a family of ten children in the countryside. Photo credit: Facebook / Lower Danube Archdiocese
Michael the Brave, the ruler prince who achieved the first political union of the Romanians 420 years ago, was remembered at “Mihai Vodă” Monastery in Turda. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj
Portraits of monks from the Solovetsky monastery located in an archipelago of the White Sea in northern Russia. Photo: patriarchia.ru / Serghei Vlasov
TV presenter Dan Negru together with fr Vasile visiting the Holy Mount Athos. Photo: Facebook / Dan Negru
Patriarch Irenej of Serbia and the country’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, visited St. Sava’s Cathedral, one of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in the world, to see the progress of the work inside. Photo: spc.rs
The Merry Cemetery from Săpânța, Maramureș, is a unique place in the world, through the crosses of the brightly coloured graves, through the verses and paintings related to the life of those buried there. Photo: Instagram / Andra-Iulia Ursa
Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău, sprinkling believers with holy water at Cireșoaia church. Photo: Media Up Solutions
A quiet summer day at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God of Sinaia Monastery. Photo: Patricia Dorobanțu
Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe holding a child after the celebration of the Divine Liturgy at the Parish of St George in Stockholm. Photo: episcopiascandinavia.se

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