Gilded icons and golden autumn leaves, vigil lamps and sunshine gleaming over saintly lives and semantron sound. This was last week’s bigger picture in our photo selection.
A child touches St Anthimus the Georgian at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneIcon of St Cosmas the Hermit on the background of Crete Island mountains. Photo: Instagram / eri_fragiadakiPatriarch Daniel signed the guest book of Bucharest’s Village Museum on Monday. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuA sexton of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest carries the icon of St. Anthimus the Georgian. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian IftimiuSunshine over Bacău Cathedral. Photo: Nicu ChiriacMother Gabrielia’s tomb in Leros, Greece. Photo: Facebook / Tzatzanis AntonisThe bread offered by the Mother of God to St. Paisios of Mount Athos. Photo credit: Orthodoxia News AgencyFresco at Parepa Monastery. Photo: Hieromonk Benedict RusuThe “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul – Ioşia I” Church in Oradea. Photo: Nicolae IndrieThe statue of the Holy Prince Stephen the Great in morning light in the city of Bacău. Photo: Mihaela Popa-IgnatChildren of Năsăud Land dressed in folk costumes participate in the patronal feast of the “Protection of the Mother of God” Monastery in Florești, Cluj county. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj / Darius EchimAn iconographer presents a copy of the Kazanskaya Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God. Photo: Instagram / icons_elenaMonument marking the 500th anniversary of Poland’s Horostyt Orthodox Parish. Photo: Orthodox Church of PolandA man in prayer is reflected by the glass which protects the icon of the Mother of God. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuAnimals kindly ask for blessings, too – at “St. George – Cloșca” Skete, Constanța county. Photo: Hieromonk LeontiePatriarch Theophilos inaugurated the new Academic Year at the Theology School of Jerusalem Patriarchate. Photo: Jerusalem PatriarchatePrayer moment at Plumbuita Monastery. Photo: Afsar AmirabadiTe Deum office at the open-air altar of Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral, celebrating Patriarch Daniel’s 14 years of patriarchal ministry. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuYoung people at the consecration of the Romanian church in Bergen, Norway. Photo: Facebook. Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarVigil office for the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God at Pângărați Monastery. Photo: Ema StoianOrdination service for the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Sava of Marca. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate”…be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45). Photo: Twitter / Aristotle PapanikolauChildren holding dolls depicting the icon of the Mother of God on the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God. Photo: Instagram / asceticlifeofmotherhoodHierarchical Divine Liturgy marking150 years from the laying of the foundation stone for the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in Mihoveni, Suceava. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and RădăuțiHis Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, blessing the faithful at Bucharest’s Brâncuși Parish. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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