The Bright Week in pictures: May 6 – 12, 2024

Please see below our Bright Week 2024 photo feature presenting last week’s snapshots of Orthodox life.

Two children at the patronal feast of the National Cathedral Chapel in Bucharest, Romania, on May 6, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Procession with the “Portaitissa” (“Gatekeeper”) Icon of the Mother of God on Holy Mount Athos, on May 7, 2024. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu Cluci
“Saint George” Church in Bascov, Romania, built in the first half of the 18th century, historical monument. Photo credit: Ana Maria Avram
His Grace Sofian of Brașov offered to a Catholic parish in Munich an icon of Holy Martyr Quirin, patron saint of the church, and of Venerable Onuphrius the Great, one of the patron saints of Munich. Photo credit: Facebook / Centrul Bisericesc München
The church of Huruiești village in the county of Bacău, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Rohia Monastery, in Romania, on the feast of the Life-Giving Spring, celebrated this year on May 10, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Orthodox nun Serafima is a doctor at the “St Nektarios” Palliative Care Centre of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Rareș Hopincă
The Patriarchal Cathedral’s spires reflected in the water vessel prepared for blessing on the Feast of the Life-Giving Spring, on May 10, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
The joy of meeting the Holy Martyr Ephraim at the “Holy Martyr George” Parish in Moinești, Romania, on May 9, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Parohia Sf. Mc. Gheorghe
His Grace Damaschin of Dorna visited the Suplai village in Bistrița-Năsăud county, Romania, breaking Easter eggs with a local woman. Photo credit: Facebook / Cu Iosif pe coclauri
A child watches the Divine Liturgy through the public order fence at Ghighiu Monastery, Romania, on May 10, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Boys from Lunca Ilvei, Bistrița-Năsăud county, Romania, went to their local church – some wearing folk costumes – on the occasion of the blessing of the recently restored church bells, on 10 May 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
Aurora Borealis seen from Movila lui Burcel Monastery, Romania, on May 11, 2024. Photo credit: Mănăstirea Movila lui Burcel
His Grace Paisie of Sinaia at the patronal feast of the Ghighiu Monastery on May 10, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The Church of the “Life-Giving Spring” in Dărmănești, Bacău county, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Spectacular sky above the monastery in Movila lui Burcel in Vaslui county, Romania. Photo credit: Movila lui Burcel Monastery
Poșaga Monastery church in the county of Alba, Romania, on May 12, 2024. Photo credit: Laura Drăghiciu
His Grace Timotei of Prahova consecrated the Church of the “The Life-Giving Spring” in the village of Roșu, Ilfov county, Romania, on May 12, 2024. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Mihnea Pădurarul
On May 12, 2024, Bishop Iustin of Maramureș and Sătmar consecrated a church from Poienile de sub Munte that is part of the Ukrainian Vicariate of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Sunday of Holy Apostle Thomas at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, on May 12, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Jerusalem Patriarchate
Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj at the patronal feast of the church in his native village, Oarța de Sus, Maramureș county, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
Faithful dressed in traditional clothes participated in the consecration of the wooden church of the Solar District, Bucharest, on May 12, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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