Please find below the faces of faithful of all ages, places of pilgrimage and moments of Orthodox life: it is our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for April 24 – 30, 2023.
The restored cathedral in Turnu Măgurele, Teleorman county, Romania, is to be consecrated on May 7, 2023. Photo credit: Luciana DinaSunset at Comana Monastery. Photo credit: Comana Monastery / Dragoș GrigoreSt George’s Parish in London, a place where many Romanians from UK come to pray. Photo credit: Moroșan GabrielA ray of light shines through the Altar of the “Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen” Church in Straja, Suceava county, Romania. Photo credit: Petru Paul ToracThe chapel, cells and bell tower of Dervent Monastery, Constanta county, Romania. Photo credit: Protosyncellus Sofronie BobaruThe week “School in a Different Way”: ceramics workshop at Nera Monastery, Romania, on April 27, 2027. Photo credit: Facebook / neraplant.ro“The New Testament shows us clearly that the wisdom of the elderly depends on their closeness to God through prayer and the virtuous life they live”, according to Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church, which marks 2023 as the Solemn Year of Spiritual Guidance for the Elderly. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneA young “policeman” was present at the concert entitled “Steps in the Light of Resurrection”, organized by the Association of Orthodox Theological Students at Bucharest’s “St. Elephtherios – New” Church on April 27, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuChinese Orthodox monk on Mount Athos. Photo credit: Facebook / prijatelji_manastira_hilandaraThe “Tronos Junior” Psaltic Group delighted the audience at the concert entitled “Steps in the Light of the Resurrection”, organized by the Association of Orthodox Theological Students on April 27, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuPaintings made by the children of “The Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem” Orthodox Parish were displayed at the “Saint Pachomius, Bishop of Roman – The Way to Holiness” exhibition organized by the “Iulian Antonescu” Museum Complex in Bacău, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuA pilgrimage through Vâlcea county, Romania: the church of Secături, in the town of Costești. Photo credit: Nicoleta Enculescu“Saint John the Russian” Monastery in southern Romania was established on November 1, 2008, on the ruins of a former military unit of the Giurgiu Border Police. Photo credit: DoxologiaThe Pantocrator Monastery in Drăgănești – Vlașca, Teleorman County, Romania, celebrated its patronal feast on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, April 30, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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