Photos of the Day for November 30, 2014

Children’s Communion, feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014.  Дзіцячае прычасьце, Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photos of the Day for November 29, 2014

Anointing with holy oil, feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014.  Мірапамазаньне, Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photos of the Day for November 28, 2014

Feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014.  Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г. It is profoundly moving — and a point where the timeless intersects with the moment lived — to see a grandparent firmly and lovingly transmit her faith and traditions to her grandchildren.

Photos of the Day for November 27, 2014

Feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014.  At specific moments during the service the priest, visible through the open central doors of the iconostasis, censes the altar. Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for November 26, 2014

Feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014.  Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for November 25, 2014

Preparing to kiss the icon, feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014. Перамяненьне Гасподняе – Яблычны Спас, Аздамічы 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for November 24, 2014

Blessing the Host, feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing Feast (Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2014. One of the 12 great feasts in the Orthodox calendar, the August 19 feast of the Transfiguration/Apple-Blessing feast (Jablychny Spas) is  joyfully celebrated throughout Belarus, nowhere more so than in Azdamichy. The parish of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy is like a home… Continue reading Photo of the Day for November 24, 2014

Photo of the Day for November 23, 2014

Traditional farming:  preparing to feed the hogs.  Tsjerablichy 2014. Традыцыйнае палескае фермерства:  падрыхтоўка да кармленьня кабанчыкоў.  Цераблічы 2014 г.

Photo of the Day for November 22, 2014

In memory of the more than three million Ukrainians whom Stalin and his regime murdered in the deliberately-induced famine of 1932-1933 known as the Holodomor.  Ukrainians light candles on November 22 to commemorate the dead. У памяць больш за трох міліёнаў украінцаў забітых Сталінам і сталінскімі ўладамі ў галадамору 1932-33 гг. День пам’яті жертв голодомору.

Photo of the Day for November 21, 2014

Last hay before Pakrou (October 14 feast of the Protection of the Holy Mother of God), Rubjel’ 2014. Дакоскі перад Пакровамі, Рубель 2014 г.