The Week in Pictures: December 19 – 25, 2022

The last week of Lent was a time of spiritual preparation, joy and carolling. We invite you to take a look at the Orthodox world between December 19 and 25, 2022.

Heroes of the Revolution commemorated in University Square, 21 December 2022. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Little Emma Anastasia on the set of Trinitas TV news. Photo credit: Valentin Micu
His Eminence Nestor, Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, received at the Eparchial Centre a group of carolers. Photo credit: Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara
Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki lit up and ready for the feast of the Nativity. Photo credit: Jukka Vehkaoja
Carolers from Maramures at the Patriarchal Residence. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
The Nativity of the Lord is celebrated at the Eparchial Centre of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau
Three new monks at Măxineni Monastery, Brăila county. Photo: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
 Metropolitan Teofan shows affection to a child. Photo: Doxologia.ro
The Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar attended the Christmas Carols Concert organized by the management of the Pneumophthisiology Hospital “Dr Nicolae Rusdea” in Baia Mare, December 21, 2022. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Christmas concert of the “Agapia” choir at the Annunciation Parish in Munich. Photo: Mădălina-Maria Lefter
A group of young people with Down syndrome from Bucharest went carolling with the Patriarch of Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Priests gave gifts to elderly people who are alone, as part of the charity project “A Christmas for everyone”, organized by the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuților. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți / Irina Ursachi
The church of Sihăstria Putnei Monastery, is decorated for the holidays. Photo: Raj Bostan
Military band in Revolution Square during the commemoration of the heroes of December 1989. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
His Eminence Casian officiated at the Eternity Cemetery in Galati municipality the funeral service for the martyred heroes of the December 1989 Revolution. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Young people’s Christmas at Oașa Monastery. Photo: Facebook / Mănăstirea Oașa
The joy of carols at the Monastery of the “Ascension of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New” in the Mono Mountains, Ontario, Canada. Photo: monasterymono.org
Christmas tree in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Timisoara. Photo: Stela Plămadă
On the night of 25 December, in the cave of St. Cuv. Theodora of Sihla celebrated for the first time the Holy Mass of the Nativity. Photo: Doxologia.ro
Christmas Eve at Sihăstria Putnei Monastery. Photo: Facebook / George Ogăraru
“Let the children come to me…”, image from the Nativity Eve in the church of Dervent Monastery. Photo: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
A carolling procession from Gura Râului, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania, on the feast of the Nativity. Photo: Ionuț Vasile
Pângărați Monastery on the first day of Christmas. Photo: Lori Gia

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