The Week in Pictures: March 3 – 9, 2025

Please find below some enthralling images from the first week of Lent, when the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete was officiated, and from the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the feast celebrating the restoration of icons in the Orthodox Church.

They illustrate both the beauty of liturgical tradition and the profound significance of icons as essential elements of Orthodox worship.

St Ephraim the Syriac’s prayer is recited during Lent in Christian Orthodox churches, accompanied by great prostrations. The first day of Lent at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on March 3, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Prayer moment at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania, on March 3, 2025 Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete officiated at Holt Parish, Romania, on the first day of Lent, March 3, 2025. Photo credit: Facebook / Leonard Dumitru Militaru
Priest praying at the Students’ Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Photo credit: Sebastian Suărășan
The Abbot of Cernica Monastery, near Bucharesr, Romania, read the Great Compline on March 6, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Members of the Association of Orthodox Youth of Suceava offered snowdrops to mothers from the local Maternity Ward on March 8, when the International Women’s Day is marked. Photo credit: Nicoleta Pînzari
The first celebration of Martyr Priest Liviu Galaction as a saint at the Chapel of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on March 7, 2025. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
Rejoicing to be part of the procession with icons at Tirana Cathedral, Albania, on March 9, 2025, the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Photo credit: Radio “Ngjallja”
Priests offered flowers to the women residents of the Elderly Care Centre in Coroieni, Maramureș county, Romania, on March 8, the International Women’s Day. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Sunday of Orthodoxy celebrated at “St Nicholas” Church in Troy, Michigan, USA, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Facebook / Theophani Sarigianis
Monk playing the semantron at Comana Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Comana Monastery / Dragoș Grigore
An impressive number of Christian Orthodox faithful carried icons in the procession held on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 9, 2025, at the Diocesan Cathedral in Baia Mare, Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
The patronal feast of the Romanian “Holy 40 Martyrs” Monastery – Gherla Memorial was celebrated on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
The Divine Liturgy celebrated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy in Jerusalem on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Jerusalem Patriarchate
Procession on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Bulgarian Patriarchate
Procession with the holy icons on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at Putna Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Sabin Simota
Girl with icon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Annunciation-Belu Church in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Georgiana Barica
Theology students at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
His Grace Atanasie, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop-elected of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Romanian parish in Luton, Great Britain, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Sunday of Orthodoxy celebrated on March 9, 2025, at the Romanian Parish in La Courneuve-Paris. Photo credit: Fr. Mircea Filip
The Sunday of Orthodoxy at the “St John the New of Suceava” Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
Christian Orthodox procession with icons in Uganda, Africa, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Uganda Orthodox Church – Holy Metropolis of Kampala
Joy of celebration and confession at Nera Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Facebook / Nera Plant
A symbolic image of Orthodoxy on the first Sunday of Lent at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Doxologia.ro
“Take and eat; this is my body” (Matthew 26:26): partaking in the Holy Eucharist at the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Vršac, Serbia, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Diocese of Dacia Felix
Procession with icons at Oașa Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Oașa Monastery
The holy icons have a special place in the Christian Orthodox faithful’s hearts: procession with icons on the Sunday of Orthodoxy at Pantocrator Monastery in southern Romania on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Pantocrator Monastery
The first Sunday of Lent at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on March 9, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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