The Week in Pictures: January 8-14, 2024

We invite you to a virtual journey through last week, when falling snow took us back to the words of the psalmist: “Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow”.

The courtyard of the Diocesan Cathedral in Huși, Romania, dressed in wintery bright white on January 9, 2024. Photo credit: Laura Draghiciu
Image from the “St. Antipas of Calapodești” Chapel at Dervent Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protosincellus Sofronie Bobaru
A winter day at Putna with Cross Hill in the background, on January 9, 2024. Photo credit: Aurelian Avram
Sunset over the Patriarchate Hill in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Olivia Bîrdici
Winter in fairytale Bukovina, Romania, on January 10, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Dorin Lucian Sveduneac
The chapel of the Romanian Orthodox Diocesan Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 10, 2024. Photo credit: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Northern Europe
The main church of Bucharest’s Christiana Monastery seen in the sunshine on January 10, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
The Domnița Bălașa Church in Bucharest, Romania, celebrated one of its patron saints on January 10, 2024: Holy Hierarch Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Piatra Tăieturii Monastery, Romania, on January 10, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Mănăstirea Piatra Tăieturii
The “Holy Three Hierarchs” Monastery in Iași, Romania, on January 10, 2024. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu Cluci
The Orthodox Cathedral in Timișoara, Romania, seen from a drone, on January 12, 2024. Foto credit: Facebook / Adrian Bodas Photographer
A thin layer of snow settled on Bucharest’s Patriarchate Hill on January 12, 2024. Photo credit: Archim. Andrei Anghel
Photo exhibition “Colours of Orthodoxy” held in Poland. Photo credit: Fr. Piotr Makal
An image from Tbilisi, Georgia, on January 11, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Shermazana
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a moment of prayer. Photo credit: Facebook / Nikos-Giorgos Papachristou
Nicula Monastery in Cluj County, Romania, on January 14, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
Elder Sofian Boghiu’s staircase with pavilion from his native village of Cuconeștii Vechi, Moldova. Photo credit: Facebook / Fr. Mihail Bortă

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