Month: May 2014

Preparing for the all-night Easter service, church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2014.  Прыбор царквы да ўсяночнай велікоднай службы, царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2014 год. After the morning service on Holy Saturday, a group of parishioners joins Father Aljaksandr to clean and prepare the church for the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.

Morning service for Holy Saturday, Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2014.  Ранішняя служба з нагоды Вялікай Суботы, царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2014 год. The traditional wooden churches of Polesia’s Central Pripet area capture and hold the light in a timeless way.  At the end of the service parishioners stay to clean the church… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 20, 2014

Procession, morning service on Holy Saturday, Azdamichy 2014.  Хрэсны ход пры ранішняй службе з нагоды Вялікай Суботы, Аздамічы 2014 год. Normally in processions at the church of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy the priest is not covered by a canopy.  Here, parishioners use the cover of the altar table as a canopy for the Gospels,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for May 19, 2014

Holy Saturday morning service, Azdamichy 2014.  Ранішняя служба з нагоды Вялікай Суботы, Аздамічы 2014 год. Mirroring the time of reflection and repentance after the Crucifixion, Father Aljaksandr leads a simple, solemn service on the morning of Holy Saturday.  For this service the table holding the Gospels and the placement of the choir are moved back… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 18, 2014

Home-made apricot-jam dumplings.  Nothing tastier.  Дамашнія варэнікі.  Такая смакатааа. Tsjerablichy 2014.  Цераблічы 2014 год.

Brothers Mikhail (teacher) and Mikola (forester) Naskjevich untangle nets in preparation for a new fishing season.  Use of nets is a traditional fishing method in the Pripet Marshes. Браты Міхайл (настаўнік) і Мікола (леснік) Наскевічы разблытваюць сеткі да новай рыбалоўнага сезону. Tsjerablichy 2014.  Цераблічы 2014 год.

After a memorial service (panikhida) on Holy Saturday, Orthodox church of the Resurrection, Al’homjel’ 2014.  Twenty years ago the parish in Al’homjel’ built a newer, larger church next door and the church of the Resurrection (1817) is now open only at Eastertide.  Thus it was a rare opportunity to see the church’s interior and a… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 15, 2014

Azdamichy 2014.  Аздамічы 2014 год. With their graceful and playful movements in preparing the roadside cross for Easter, these ladies evoked a maypole dance.

Crosses of Belarus (part XVII).  Holy Friday:  fixing up the roadside cross for Easter.  Крыжы Беларусі (частка XVII).  Вялікая Пятніца:  прыбор падарожнага крыжа на Вялікдзень. Azdamichy 2014.  Аздамічы 2014 год.

Belarus in Faces (part CXXXI):  Waiting to Go to Work, Tsjerablichy 2013.  Беларусь у тварах (частка СХХХІ):  у чаканьні перавозку на працу, Цераблічы 2013 год.