Month: November 2014

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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