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Ready for the service
May. 1st, 2016 10:17 pmIn Hîrbovăț Monastery, Moldova
Four monasteries in one night
May. 1st, 2016 02:56 amWe are leaving our third monastery tonight and are going to the fourth, which will be our final one for the night. They are five to fifteen minutes drive from each other (Moldovans are big on monasteries!), just enough for a quick post. Everyone we meet greets us with "Hristos a inviat!" which means "Christ is risen!" and our hosts reply "Adevarat a inviat" ("Truly risen"). This is the monastery we are leaving.
This is how the service here sounded:
This is how the service here sounded:
Eastern Orthodox Easter
Apr. 30th, 2016 04:04 pmWe landed in Moldova. The guys we became friends with when we visited last year invited us to come over for Easter. We are going to a monastery some fifty miles away from the capital. It is going to be an all-nighter with a huge feast tomorrow after many days of Lent.
It is becoming a tradition for us to go somewhere for Eastern Orthodox Easter. Last year we were at Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul. Here is a photo I took there last year.
It is becoming a tradition for us to go somewhere for Eastern Orthodox Easter. Last year we were at Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul. Here is a photo I took there last year.
