Christ’s Easter (Lyudmila Ivanova, 2009)
Courtesy of Orthodoxy Foto.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Tatiana Vinnik. A Portrait with a Bouquet. 2007
A Portrait with a Bouquet (Tatiana Vinnik, 2007).
Courtesy of Orthodoxy Foto.
Friday, 27 November 2009
Anonymous. Meeting the Guest of Honour. 2009
Meeting the Guest of Honour (Anonymous, 2009)
This was an incident during the visit of Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev to Solovki in August 2009. It was on a Live Journal site, http://nixette.livejournal.com/ Apparently, it was scanned from the November/December 2009 issue of Russian Life (which is available at Barnes & Noble in the north-eastern USA, I can’t speak for other regions), which is still on sale, I’ll warrant.
The clergy lined up in anticipation of the patriarch’s arrival, then, a mutt strolled out of the crowd, moved amongst the priests, sniffing the air happily. It caused smiles all around, but, no one moved. After sowing such cheery confusion, the dog sauntered leisurely back into the crowd.
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Vladimir Tretyakov. Liturgy for the Little Ones. 2009
Liturgy for the Little Ones (Vladimir Tretyakov, 2009)
The scene depicted is at a chapel attached to a works site in Russia. The children are from the works kindergarten, which, in Russia, is something of a combination day-care centre and early-grades school for kids up to seven years of age (when they go to regular school). Although all concerned know that there is a great deal of work to be still done in the restoration of the Church, a goodly amount has been done already, as this photo indicates. In other words, a very good start has been made, all that remains is for us to keep it up! Also, it indicates how deeply Orthodox Russia is at base, in obvious contradiction to America, which is deeply secular at its heart (as a society, I am not speaking of individuals here). The Church in Russia does not need any help from us in America. Indeed, WE need their assistance in putting things right. Shall we have the humility and wisdom to do so? One hopes so… may we not let crack-brained pseudo-intellectual notions such as “autocephaly” stop us.
Sunday, 14 September 2008
(unknown photographer). Schema-Archimandrite Zosima Sokur: Joy. 2003
Schema-Archimandrite Zosima Sokur: Joy (unknown photographer, 2003). (from: Orthodoxy Foto)
The late Schema-Archimandrite Zosima Sokur was one of the elders of the early Orthodox revival in Russia. When he died recently, all of his spiritual children were bereft and sad.
“Be in a hurry to do good deeds. Life is so short. May your guardian angel be with all of you…”
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Lest We Forget… Seven Years On… Vechnaya Pamyat!
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in the shadow of the World Trade Center
Wordiness is out of place. 11 September 2001… Too many lives were cut short. Vechnaya pamyat! Eternal Memory!
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Dushan Hadnadjev. Liturgy (a triptych). 2004
I believe that these photos speak for themselves. They were taken in Serbia in 2004. Pray for our Serbian co-religionists. They are in the right, but the godless neocons persecute them. May God give them strength.
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