Month: November 2019

Photos of the Day for November 20, 2019

Photo excursion to Mjadzjel District:  Medicinal Herbal Garden/forest preserve near Hatavichy and Nanosy 2019.  Фотавандроўка па Мядзельскім раёне: Аптэкарскі сад/заказнік пад Гатавічамі й Наносы 2019 г.   I/XII:  Medicinal Herbal Garden near Hatavichy Laid out starting in 2011, the garden now cultivates more than 250 types of medicinal herbs, teas and fruits in sections modelled… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 20, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 19, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2019.  After blessing parishioners’ apples, Father Vital’ made the customary third circuit of the church for the kissing of the cross. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Цераблічы 2019 г.  Цалаваньне крыжа пасьля асьвячэньня яблыкаў.       Visible in the background are parishioners… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 19, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 18, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2019.  The traditional break in the service in Azdamichy gave me the opportunity to drive to Tsjerablichy to photograph children’s communion at the end of the liturgy and then the blessing of apples and other fruit in the churchyard. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 18, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 17, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2019.  The traditional break in the service in Azdamichy gave me the opportunity to drive to Tsjerablichy to photograph children’s communion at the end of the liturgy and then the blessing of apples and other fruit in the churchyard.   Праабражэньне Гасподняе… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 17, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 16, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2019.  The traditional break in the service in Azdamichy gave me the opportunity to drive to Tsjerablichy to photograph children’s communion at the end of the liturgy and then the blessing of apples in the churchyard.   Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Цераблічы… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 16, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 12, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), August 19, 2019.  Blessing of apples in Azdamichy.  Father Aljaksandr, accompanied by his three-year-old grandson Maksim, made three circuits of the churchyard:  in turn censing the fruit, sprinkling the fruit with holy water, and then offering the cross for parishioners to kiss before they hurried… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 12, 2019

Photos of the Day for November 11, 2019

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), August 19, 2019.  Blessing of apples in Azdamichy.  Father Aljaksandr makes three circuits of the churchyard, in turn censing the fruit, sprinkling the fruit with holy water, and then offering the cross for parishioners to kiss before they hurry to the cemetery to place blessed… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 11, 2019