The Week in Pictures: July 29 – August 4, 2024

In the first week of the Dormition of the Mother of God Fast, our selection of snapshots from the Orthodox world captures original images of youth camp participants and moving moments involving clerics and the faithful.

Young participants in the Oașa International Youth Camp and monks of the Romanian monastic community which hosted it. Photo credit: Facebook / Mănăstirea Oașa
An elderly man kissed the wonderworking icon of the Mother God from Adam Monastery, Romania, during a procession organized by the Archdiocese of Lower Danube. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Two crosses belonging to the newly-canonized St Sofian of Antim were taken out of the recent saint’s grave during a special Exhumation service officiated at the Căldărușani Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, on Monday, July 29, 2024. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Young woman waiting to receive the Holy Communion during the summer camp organized by the Cluj branch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Students Association (ASCOR). Photo: Anca-Maria Bica
Summer evening at Curtea de Argeș Monastery, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
A little girl attended the Paraclesis of the Mother of God officiated at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Baia-Mare, Romania, on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Foto credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Elevation of the Holy Cross at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania, on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Metropolitan Arsenie of Sliven celebrated the Divine Liturgy in honour of the Mother of God at Yambol, Bulgaria, on Friday, August 2, 2024. Photo: bg-patriarshia.bg
Young delivery worker carrying The Diary of Happiness by Monk Nicolae Steinhardt, the story of a Jew from Romania who converted to Orthodox Christianity in a communist prison. Photo: Robert Mustață
Procession in honour of Holy Prophet Elijah, celebrated according to the unrevised calendar at an Orthodox parish in Poland. Photo: Facebook / Aleksander Wasyluk Photography
Biophysicist Virgiliu Gheorghe, doctor in Bioethics, held a conference on digital addiction in Comănești, Romania. Photo source: Facebook / Anastasoaie Simion
Newly ordained missionaries in the Diocese of Bukoba, Tanzania, on Friday, August 2, 2024. Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr
Orthodox Polish children throw flower petals in front of their hierarch on the feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah. Photo: Facebook / Aleksander Wasyluk Photography
Vigil for the St Theodora of Thessaloniki feast at Antim Monastery in Bucharest, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro / Ierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj administers to the faithful the Holy Communion at Hălmăsău Parish in Romania’s Bistrița-Năsăud county, on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Photo: Facebook / Metropolis of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj
View of the narthex and the Holy Altar at the Lord’s Resurrection Church in Bacău, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
A moving moment in a Romanian hierarch’s native village: Romanian Orthodox Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe kisses his father, Vasile Drăgoi, on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Patriarch Daniel of Romania visited the residents of Pasărea Monastery’s home for the elderly on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi Ivanciu
Bishop Visarion of Tulcea at the end of the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Dormition of the Mother of God Church in Agiasos – Lesvos, Greece. Photo: Diocese of Tulcea
HE Teodosie, Archbishop of Tomis, celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at Crucea (“The Cross”) Monastery in Constanța county, Romania. St Teodora of Sihla protects the holy place. Photo: Archdiocese of Tomis / Archdeacon Vali Vădănoiu
Kneeling prayer during the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Suceava, Romania, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava Rădăuți
HG Timotei of Prahova blessed the faithful who attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Facebook / Mănăstirea Radu Vodă
Child at the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Northampton, in the United Kingdom. Photo source: Facebook / Nicolae Bulat
Portrait of Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia captured during the Divine Liturgy celebrated for St Mary Magdalene according to the unrevised calendar. Photo: Facebook / Патријарх српски Порфирије

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