The Week in Pictures: December 20 – 26, 2021

This week saw the commemoration of the heroes of the anti-Communist Revolution of December 1989, Christmas carolers and the great feast of the Lord’s Nativity. Please see below the last weekly selection of photos for the year 2021.

Putna Monastery is always surrounded by snowdrifts at this time of the year. Photo: Putna Monastery
Christ Almighty represented at Deva Eparchial Centre. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Commemoration of the 1989 anti-communist revolution heroes, 32 years later, at the Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The “Ethos” Byzantine Music Group of the Diocese of Caransebeș sang Christmas carols at the Caransebeș City Hospital, including at the Covid-19 Section, where they were joined by missionary priest Petrică Timiș. Photo: Diocese of Caransebeș
The ossuary of “St. Panteleimon” Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos. Photo: Telegram / Afonsky vestnik
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these” (Luke 18:16). His Grace Iustin of Maramureș and Sătmar with children at the “Holy Trinity” Cathedral in the northern-Romania city of Baia Mare. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America embraces his mother, who came to New York to spend Christmas with her son. Photo: Twitter/ Elpidophoros
Archbishop Casian of Lower Danube with young people at the ASCOR Galați Gala of the local Orthodox Christian Students Association. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Children and priests from the city of Mioveni sang Christmas carols to announce the good tidings of the Lord’s Nativity. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel / Mihail Oprescu
Patriarch Daniel of Romanian received Christmas carolers in the Hall of the Romanian Saints at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Young men from Bistrița-Năsăud county dressed in traditional costumes participating in the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj at the “Coroana” Church in Bistrița. Photo: Bistrița Deanery
Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe holding newly-baptized Romanian little girls Ilia-Teodora and Nicola in Trondheim, Norway. Photo: Diocese of Northern Europe
The Metropolitan Cathedral in Timişoara prepared to meed the great feast of the Lord’s Nativity. Photo: Diana Ștefan
Christmas tree at the “Holy Martyr Demetrios” Church of the Izvoarele Parish in the Diocese of Tulcea. Photo: Adrian Greceanu
A family returned from abroad sang Christmas carols at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Galați. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
The first snow fall at the Holy Hierarch Nicholas Skete in Nandru, the county of Hunedoara. Photo: Robert Nuță
The Lord’s Nativity feast at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The New Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, His Grace Nestor, was installed at the “St. Nicholas” Diocesan Cathedral in Deva. Photo: Metropolis of Ardeal
Christ Almighty painted at Dervent Monastery’s “St. Antepas of Calapodești” Chapel, in the county of Constanța. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru
A child delves into the mystery of photography at “Christ the Saviour” Cathedral in Moscow. Photo: Russian Patriarchate
Children eating Antidoron bread at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Suceava. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți / Irina Usachi

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