Photo of the Day for January 17, 2018

Mid-winter light in Polesia.  Tsjerablichy 2017. Сьвятло ў сярэдзіне зімы.  Цераблічы 2017 г.    

Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  VI/VIII 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… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 1, 2017

Spring patronal feast of St. Nicholas (Mikola — May 22), part III/III:  procession and blessing of the church and parishioners with water.   Orthodox church of St. Nicholas, Karotsichy 2017. Мікола вясновы (22 траўня), частка II/III:  хрэсны ход і асьвячэньне вадой.   Царква Сьвяціцеля Мікалая Цудатворца, Кароцічы 2017 г.          

Photos of the Day for July 11, 2017

Feast of St. John the Evangelist, Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2017 (II/VIII). In commemoration of its former wooden church of St. John the Evangelist, built in 1792 and destroyed under the Soviet regime, the Orthodox parish of the Nativity celebrates St. John the Evangelist (May 21) as a patronal feast . Сьвятога апостала Яна Багаслова, Вялікае Малешава… Continue reading Photos of the Day for July 11, 2017

Photos of the Day for April 9, 2017

Owing to different criteria for calculating the date of Easter (and thus the Easter-related movable feasts of Palm Sunday, Ascension and Pentecost), the dates only intermittently coincide for western churches on the one hand and Eastern Orthodox churches on the other.  In 2017, as most recently in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2014, the dates coincide.… Continue reading Photos of the Day for April 9, 2017

Photos of the Day for January 14, 2017

Eastern Orthodox great feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Mother of God (II/V).  Azdamichy, December 4, 2016. Mirroring the feast day itself as well as the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas on February 2 in the west, Sretsjen’nje Haspodnjaje on February 15 in Eastern Orthodoxy),… Continue reading Photos of the Day for January 14, 2017

Photo of the Day for January 11, 2017

Vespers on the eve of the December 4 great feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Mother of God (III/III).  Tsjerablichy 2016. Вячэрня напярэдадні вялікага сьвята Ўвядзеньня ў храм (Ахвяраваньня) Прасьвятой Багародзіцы (III/III).  Цераблічы 2016 г.     Tending the candles. Дагляд за сьвечкамі.

Photos of the Day for October 13, 2016

Blessing of apples, feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast), Azdamichy 2016.  After the blessing of apples, parishioners pack up their apples and await the third circuit, when Father Aljaksandr offers the cross to be kissed. The kissing of the cross is another moment which demonstrates parents’ and grandparents’ keen interest in passing on their faith… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 13, 2016

Photos of the Day for October 11, 2016

Blessing of apples, Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast), Azdamichy 2016. Father Aljaksandr makes three circuits of the churchyard to cense the apples, to bless them with water, and to offer the cross for parishioners to kiss before they hurry to the cemetery to place blessed fruit on the graves of their forebears. Асьвячэньне… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 11, 2016