Believe it or not, you’ve been watching our weekly retrospectives in pictures for 270 weeks. Here is what photos we’re bringing to you in our new selection of Orthodox photos from August 2023.
Father Marius Barascu, who died in a road accident while returning from the Sihla Monastery’s patronal feast four years ago, was painted at the Romanian monastery’s entrance. Photo credit: Iustina LăcătușuSt. Pafnutie the Church Painter was celebrated at the Robaia-Argeș Monastery, Romania, where he was tonsured a monk, on August 7, 2023. Photo credit: George CristianMetropolitan Nektarios of Kition (Orthodox Church of Cyprus) visited the museum of Antim Monastery in Bucharest, Romania, on August 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuThe first series of students participating in the Spiritual Program at Vatopaidi Monastery ended last week. Photo credit: Stan MihailThe church of Bucharest’s Antim Monastery, on August 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu“No one who comes to you goes out ashamed, Virgin Mother of God”. The service of the Virgin Mary at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu on 10 August 1023. Photo credit: Monk Paisie VasileThe 20th commemoration of Father Constantin Galeriu’s reposing into the Lord at Bucharest’s St Sylvester Church on August 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mariana StancaThe Ecumenical Patriarch was welcomed with flowers at the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Nihori, Italy, on August 10, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos PapachristouPrayer at Nicula Monastery, Romania, in the days leading up to the patronal feast of the monastic settlement. Photo credit: Anca-Maria BicaHis Grace Sofian of Brașov offers the Holy Communion to a child. Photo credit: Romulus Valentin BalutaAuxiliary Hierarch Timotei of Summer Sătmar joined the children of the Dumbrăvița Orthodox Parish Summer Camp in the county of Maramureș, Romania, on August 11, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarFresco on the porch of the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Church in Bucharest, a historical monument. Photo credit: Ana AvramMosaic icons in the new church of the Dervent Monastery, Constanța county, Romania.Photo credit: Protosyncellus Sofronie BobaruThe “Holiday on the Church Porch” Summer Camp for children and young people in Rediu, Galați county, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower DanubeRâșca Monastery in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Răzvan BucuroiuAround 4000 young people attended the opening of the feast of Holy Hierarch Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople and Metropolitan of Wallachia, in Târgoviște, Romania, on August 10, 2023.Photo credit: Archdiocese of TârgovișteA monk’s cell. Photo credit: Dositei IancuTonsure into monasticism at the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Monastery in Iași, Romania, on August 11, 2023. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu CluciThe painting of the church in Țentea, Bistrița-Năsăud county, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimStudents participate in the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the “Mother of God” Monastery Saidnaya, Syria, on August 11, 2023.The first Divine Liturgy celebrated on the plot of land where the future church of Bielsko-Biała, Poland, will be built. Photo credit: Orthodox Church of PolandProbota Monastery, foundation and necropolis of Prince Petru Rareș, dates back to 1530. Photo credit: Facebook / Paul PătrățanuA grandmother takes her granddaughter to church in Berchieșu, Cluj county, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț ChifaArchbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău among the faithful of the Precista Parish, in the city of Bacău, Romania, where a copy of St John Damascene’s icon of the Mother of God (Trihirussa) was brought, on August 13, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
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