The Week in Pictures: August 29 – September 4, 2022

The passage to another season and the start of the New Church Year were opportunities for prayer and thanksgiving offered to God by the Orthodox faithful. Please see below our Week in Pictures feature for the period between August 29 – September 4, 2022.

World Vision Romania and Bucharest’s 6th Sector Deanery offered school bags full of school stationery for 4,000 children on August 29, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Prayer moment at the “Dormition of the Mother of God” Church in Câmpia Turzii, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Tudor Călin
Rose arch over an alley at Bucharest’s Darvari Skete. Photo: Afsar Amirabadi
Father Arsenie Muscalu, the spiritual adviser at Cornu Monastery in Romania, is reflected by the glass which protects the icon of the Saviour. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, blessed the bells of a new church in the Romanian town of Sub Coastă, on August 31, 2022. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Parohia Ortodoxă Sub Coastă
“The Orthodox Parish in Visuia cherishes and supports education” was the name of a project through which the children in the community received school kits. Photo: Pop Călin
A boy burns incense at the old-calendar Russian church of the village of Mila 23, in the Danube Delta. Photo: Cristiana C. Clucencu
Art-therapy combats the negative outcomes of bullying: “St Macrina” Foundation offered art-therapy workshops to 50 socially-vulnerable children in a one-month project during the summer school holiday. The final workshop was held on August 31, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The children of the “Holy Trinity” Parish in Costieni, Galați county, Romania, took a trip to the Princely Court of Târgoviște, on September 1, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Parohia Costieni
A little girl shares her snacks with a little boy during the Te Deum service officiated at the New “St Spyridonos” Metropolitan Cathedral in Bucharest on September 1, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Deacons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the first day of the New Church Year, September 1, 2022. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
Prayer for the good beginning of the new school year at the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Orthodox Romanian Church in Paris – La Courneuve. Photo: Fr Mircea Filip
Icon of the Burning Bush at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery. Photo: Mariana Stancă
The tomb of St Joseph the Hesychast in Nea Skiti, Holy Mount Athos. Photo: Antonio Cîrdei
The “Holy Three Hierarchs” Metropolitan Cathedral in Timişoara on the first Sunday of September, 2022. Photo: Stela Plămadă
His Grace Timotei of Sătmar with the young people of the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Parish in Suciu de Sus, of the northern-Romania county of Maramureș, on September 4, 2022. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Two little girls praying at Bucharest’s “St Joachin and Anna – Oborul Vechi” Church, on September 4, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Pr Ciprian Tudor
Autumn start at Izbuc Monastery on September 4, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Mănăstirea Izbuc
The faithful of the Șardu Parish in Cluj county walk to the local chapel which is to be blessed by His Grace Benedict of Bistrița on September 4, 2022. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia with children from the Serbian Diocese of Buda in Hungary on September 4, 2022. Photo: Spc.rs
Sunset at Holy Mount Athos’ Pantocrator Monastery. Photo: Andrei Cocîrlea

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