The feast of the Lord’s Nativity is approaching fast. Carol singers have started to announce the good news in small groups and online. Please enjoy our selection pf photos taken between December 14 and 20, 2020.
Holy Martyr Philemon, patron of the actors, was honoured at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuMuffin the Cat is “mastering” well a book written by Venerable Porfirios. Photo: Ioana ManteASCOR Alba Iulia started a humanitarian campaign entitled “You can be a Santa”. Photo: Archdiocese of Alba Iulia / Paul Alin Scrobotă“The Orient from Above”, a traditional Christmas carol concert, was shot in front of the Palace of Patriarchy from Bucharest. It was organized by the BASILICA Media Center of the Romanian Patriarchate. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuTe Deum service on the name day of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuOn the feast of Venerable Daniel the Hermit, the monks from Putna Monastery read the saint’s Acathyst Hymn at the stone cell that he had carved for himself in the wilderness. Photo: Facebook / Putna MonasteryThe feast of the Holy Hierarch Nicholas was celebrated at the Hajnówka Cathedral in Poland. Photo: Orthodox.pl / Fr. Marek LitwiniukBishops Iustin of Maramureș and Auxiliary Bishop Timotei of Sătmar received the first Christmas carol singers at the diocesan centre in the city of Baia Mare. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarWhite silence at Brînceni Monastery in the southern Romania county of Teleorman. Photo: Adrian Gabriel DrăgulinChristmas carol singers at the church in Apahida, Cluj county. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimChristmas carol singers visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos ManginasCarol singers at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Galaţi. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Lower DanubeMorning liturgy at “St John the Theologian” Metropolitan Chapel in Timișoara. Photo: Daniel AnitasThe iconostasis of the main church of Negru Vodă Monastery in Câmpulung Muscel, Argeș county. Photo: Protosyncellus Ieronim GheorghițăHis Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received at the Patriarchal Residence, in the Hall of the Romanian Saints, two small groups of Christmas carol singers made of former members of the Romanian Orthodox Students Association (ASCOR). Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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