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Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год. Parishioners rest under the churchyard apple trees at the midpoint of this four-hour service.  This year the apple harvest has been especially bountiful.

Guiding hands.  Матчына рука. Children’s communion, feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Прычасьце для дзяцей, сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год.

Interior light (part XXII), feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне (частка ХХІІ), сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год.

Tending the candles, feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год. Families will often let their children help tend the candle holders to light candles, remove the stubs of wax, or straighten candles which have wilted in the heat.  Participating in this way gives the children a sense of responsibility and a… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 25, 2012

Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год. 2 Corinthians 4: [18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Другое Да Карынфянаў 4: 18… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 24, 2012

Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год.

Hands.  Рукі. Hands — their movement and their placement — reveal the essence of a culture. Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год.

Feast of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня Прасьвятой Багародзіцы, Рубель 2012 год. Rubjel’ has always had a strong Orthodox tradition.  There are now two Orthodox churches in the village.  One, an outstanding example of a Polesian wooden church, dates from 1796, but is used only for its name-day… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 21, 2012

Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год. One of the priests attending from other parishes, in this case a Rubjeljets himself, makes the round of the nave to bless the church.  Every few feet he turns one way to cense icons on the wall or the other way to cense the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 20, 2012

Feast of the Dormition, Rubjel’ 2012.  Сьвяток Усьпеньня, Рубель 2012 год. Grandmothers embody the resilience of Belarusian culture; they are the force behind the new birth of faith in Belarus; they guarantee the transmission of their traditions unto the third generation. Паводле Мацьвея 5:  6 Дабрашчасныя тыя, хто жадае і прагне праўды, бо яны спатоляцца.… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 19, 2012