The Week in Pictures: September 4 – 10, 2023

Please find below a summary in pictures of the beginning of autumn in the Orthodox world. This is our Week in Pictures photo feature.

Confessing the Orthodox faith by painting icons at Sihăstria Putnei Monastery. Photo credit: Ruxandra Lăcătuș
Participant in the “Sound of the Semantron” contest at Sihăstria Râșcăi Monastery on September 5, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
At Sihăstria Putnei, home of Saints Sila, Paisie and Natan. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Manolada on September 5, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
The beautiful spires of Curtea de Argeș Monastery church. Photo credit: Facebook / Ovidiu Marian Vlăsceanu
Procession with the icon of Our Lady at Gethsemane, Jerusalem. Photo credit: Facebook / Jerusalem Patriarchate
An olive tree greets the faithful at the entrance to the Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest, the Capital city of Romania. Photo credit: Mihai-Daniel Pană
Commemoration of the Romanian heroes who fell at Turtucaia in 1916. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Măldărăști, Bacău county, Romania, was reconsecrated on September 7, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
His Grace Timotei of Prahova celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Patriarchal Cathedral, on September 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The Nativity of the Mother of God celebrated at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman on September 8, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Students and teachers attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Patriarch Porphyrjie on the occasion of a new school year in St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo credit: spc.rs
Moment of silence in the Church “St. Nicholas” in Rîșnov, Romania. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica
Pilgrims waiting to enter the altar of the newly-consecrated church of Bujoreni Monastery in Vaslui county, Romania, on September 10, 2023. The habit of letting all faithful, men and women, enter to honour a newly consecrated altar on the day of its consecration, is specific to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Photo credit: Laura Draghiciu
Stained-glass window representing Holy Hierarch Calinic of Cernica, at Mărțișor Church in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Parish priest Dragoș-Aureliu Marineață
The members of ATOS, a local youth organization, climbed the Rodna Mountains (Romania) to reach the Ineu Peak. Photo credit: Instagram / atos.suceava
Prayer for the martyrs and confessors of the Periprava communist forced labour camp at the ossuary of Dervent Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
The veil of Saint Paraskeva brought from Iași was received with military honours in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, where the saint’s relics were kept for more than 150 years. Photo credit: Antonio Cîrdei
Bishop Antonie of Bălți received an icon of the Mother of God, patroness of Greater Romania, after the consecration of a church in Iași county, Romania. Photo credit: Flavius Ștefan Popa
Encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ at the Divine Liturgy, on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at Parepa Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Hieromonk Benedict Rusu
The Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania, at the beginning of autumn. Photo credit: Ionuț Ungureanu
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Finland during an Orthodox youth camp. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou

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