The Week in Pictures: April 18 – 24, 2022

The Holy Week and the great feast of the Resurrection of the Lord were opportunities for spiritual renewal in the Orthodox world. Please see below our selection of photos taken between April 18 and 24, 2022.

Our Saviour was among us during the Holy Week. Photo: Radu Chiriță
Holy Chrism preparation at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
Holy Tuesday Matins Service at the Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana, Albania. Photo: Facebook / Stephanos & Alexandria Missionaries to Albania
“Christ is risen!” salute inscribed on a car in the western-Romanian city of Timișoara. Photo: Ștefan Florea
Giurgiu county, April 19, 2022: Auntie Roza (81 years old) and Uncle Ion (85) holding their photos taken when they were aged 17, respectively 21. Photo: Facebook / Sorin Onișor
Sunset at the Timișoara Cathedral. Photo: Ștefan Florea
Patriarch Daniel blessing the faithful during the Holy Thursay Divine Liturgy. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Blessing of the Holy Chrism at the Serbian Patriarchate. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate
Nuns at Pasărea Monastery, near Bucharest, read the divine service from books written in Romanian, but with old Slavonic letters. Photo: Gabriel Drumea
Snapshot from the Holy Week at the “Elevation of the Holy Cross” and “St Ephraimus the New” Orthodox Monastery in Mono, Canada. Photo: Monasterymono.org
Holy Thursday: Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj and Auxiliary Bishop Benedict of Bistrița processed the cross from behind the Holy Table of the altar and placed it in the church narthex for the faithful to honour it. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave the blessing during the divine service. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate/ Nikos Papachristou
“Bird Paradise” at Lada Parish in the county of Teleorman, southern Romania. Photo: Facebook / Preot Danu Florin
Faithful at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest carried lit candles during the Holy Friday procession. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Holy Week snapshot from the Metropolitan Cathedral in Plovdiv. Photo: Bg-patriarshia.bg
An Orthodox Christian man playing the semantron on Holy Friday at the Orthodox Cemetery Chapel of the Transylvanian city of Mediaș. Photo: Tătar Ovidiu Teodor
The Holy Epitaphios was adorned with flowers and placed for the faithful to honour it by kissing it, at the “Lord’s Assumption” Archdiocesan Cathedral in Buzău. Photo: Georgian Burlacu
Holy Epitaphios procession on Holy Friday at Vărbilău II Parish in Prahova County. Photo: Mihai Gorneanu
April 22, 2022: Holy Friday at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Timișoara. Photo: Stela Plămadă
Holy Fire descended at the Lord’s Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Saturday, April 23, 2022. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate/ Herba Hrimat
Patriarch Daniel receiving the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
The Holy Fire was distributed to the faithful on Easter night at Bucharest’s Plumbuita Monastery. Photo: Afsar Amirabadi
Easter night at Putna Monastery. Photo: Iulian Țugui
A child receiving the Holy Fire on Easter night at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Patriarch of Antioch blessed the food baskets after the Divine Liturgy celebrated for the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord at the Damascus Cathedral in Syria. Photo: Facebook / Antioch Patriarchate
Easter night in the town of Horodnic de Sus. Photo: Facebook / ADN Studio Photo-Video
Two nuns from the Iezer Skete joyfully greeted each other with the traditional salutation: “Christ is risen!”, while one of them blessed the other. Photo: Andreea-Zenovia Popescu
Easter joy at Dervent Monastery in southern Romania. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru

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