Please find below our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for the week of August 26 – September 1, 2024, the last week of summer.
The Byzantion choir participated in the Pieśń Naszych Korzeni Festival in Poland. Photo credit: Festiwal Pieśń Naszych KorzeniPassion and talent in an icon painting workshop at the Orthodox Romanian Monastery of Godoncourt, in France. Photo credit: Facebook / Godoncourt MonasteryA sincere smile brightens the face regardless of age, Bucharest’s Plumbuita Monastery, August 29, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica / Mircea FlorescuTomb at Varlaam Monastery, Meteora, Greece. Photo credit: George SlămnoiuThe Association of Orthodox Youth of Suceava (ATOS) carried out a recreational activity – rafting on the Bistrița River, Romania. Photo credit: Instagram / atos.suceavaA gesture of tenderness between a boy and his mother at the patronal feast of Arbore Monastery, on August 29, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and RădăuțiThe Bishop of Maramureș among the young people of the diocese before their departure to The Meeting of Young Orthodox People (ITO) Bistrița 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarGladsome Light… Photo credit: Andreea CiobanRomania’s National Cathedral at sunset. Photo credit: Protos. Adrian RogozMetropolitan Arsenius of Sliven blessing the Assembly of Karakachans on August 31, 2024. Photo credit: Bulgarian PatriarchateFr. Constantin Necula and Dan Negru spoke to young people at ITO Bistrița on August 31, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of ClujImage taken at Cormaia Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimThe relics of St. Cyprian from the Zlătari Church in Bucharest, Romania, were welcomed in Cyprus by Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol on August 31, 2024. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi IvanciuDivine Liturgy celebrated at the beginning of the Church Year, September 1, 2024 at the Ghiroda Nouă Parish in Timisoara, Romania. Photo credit: Dan SaraHis Grace Atanasie of Bogdania with a child at the “St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople” Parish in Lunghezza, Italy, on September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of ItalyDivine Liturgy was celebrated at the “St. Archangel Michael” Church in Limassol, Cyprus, where the relics of Holy Martyr Cyprian were brought in pilgrimage on September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi IvanciuPrayer at the start of the school year at the Church of St. Stephen the Great in Vienna, on September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / St. Stephen the Great Church in ViennaBelievers chant at the Orthodox Parish of Săcel, Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarSometimes we want to keep with us the image of an icon, a photo of St. Nicholas’ icon. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi IvanciuAcolyte at the Church of Holy Archangel Michael in Limassol, Cyprus, on September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae IftimiuYoung participants carrying the Romanian flag in the “Procession of Joy” at ITO Bistrița, on August 31, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of ClujCalapodești Monastery on the first day of fall, September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuThe New Church Year at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos PapachristouHis Grace Paisie of Sinaia blessed the faithful at Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral on the beginning of the Church Year, September 1, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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