Please find below captivating images, showing the beauty of creation in the transition period from autumn to winter, in our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for November 11 – 17, 2024.
Holy Great Martyr Menas was honored at Bucharest’s best-known church bearing his name on the saint’s feast day, November 11, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneNovember morning in Putna. Photo credit: Aurelian AvramThe first snow fell on November 12, 2024, at Arnota Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Arnota MonasteryPrayerful moment at Măxineni Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie BobaruThe Feast of the Holy Transylvanian Martyrs, in the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Sölvesborg, Sweden, on November 12, 2024. Photo credit: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Northern EuropeOn November 14, 2024, Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, attended the celebration of 100 years since the Polish Orthodox Church received autocephaly. Photo credit: Facebook / Kancelaria Prezydenta RPA cat walks among the faithful in the courtyard of the National Cathedral Chapel in Bucharest, Romania, on November 13, 2024, during the Divine Liturgy celebrated for the patronal feast. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EnePriests from Brăila, Romania, participate in a blood donation campaign on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower DanubeA layer of snow has fallen on the Ruoaia Monastery in northern Romania on November 13, 2024. Photo credit: Doxologia / Archd. Vasile Pop
Bishop Visarion of Tulcea at the church of St. Athanasius in Niculițel, Romania, on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Tulcea
Concert of psaltic music at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Consulate General of Greece in Boston
Prayer to Holy Hierarch Gregory Palamas at the Church from the student campus of Bucharest’s Politehnica University on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
Children from a Romanian village come to the local church to attend the blessing of the renovation works at the place of worship on November 17, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuThe reconsecration of the “Holy Trinity” Church in Topa Mică, Cluj county, Romania, on November 17, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim“With the brightness of your light, O Virgin, illuminate the darkness of ignorance and banish it from those who faithfully confess you, Mother of God.” Photo credit: Hierod. Nicolae IftimiuWinter has made its presence felt at the St. Nektarios’s Hermitage in Bârnărel, Suceava county, Romania, on November 17, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Sfântul Nectarie Hermitage – Bârnărel
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Bishop Visarion of Tulcea at the church of St. Athanasius in Niculițel, Romania, on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Tulcea
Prayer to Holy Hierarch Gregory Palamas at the Church from the student campus of Bucharest’s Politehnica University on November 14, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
