page_title: Orthodox International Youth Festival "Bratya"
section_title: Pilgrimages, excursions and processions
hierarchical_section_title: Orthodox International Youth Festival "Bratya" / Program / Pilgrimages, excursions and processions
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Фестиваль Братья - Крестный ход в Логойск
context_page_description: The Orthodox International Youth Festival «Bratya» is an annual Russian Orthodox youth festival organized by a group of activists from Mozhaysk, Russia, with the support of various Eastern Orthodox communities, public organizations and individuals. Although the festival is declared as international, traditionally it unites youth of the former USSR. The Festival differs with warm and friendly atmosphere.
  The festival is based on complementary components: stage performances; education; informal communication both with the clergy and with each other. Within the framework of the festival educational seminars, thematic discussions with priests, excursions, balls, sports competitions, various master classes, creative performances of Orthodox youth groups and performers of different directions are held.
  The festival «Bratya» was first held in July 2005 and since are being held every summer. Since 2008, the winter session of festival "Bratya", also called "Bratya in Winter" was added, and is held annually on February. The summer festival is held as an open-air tent camp event, winter one is usually based in hotels and less populous.
context_section_description: Not a single festival "Bratya" is complete without a visit to Eastern Orthodox shrines located near its venues. On one of the days at the summer festival, a festival-wide procession takes place to a particular church or monastery, where after that all those who come participate in the service, and then return. As Taisia Sakovich wrote in 2009: "Imagine yourself: a column of 700 people is walking, occupying the entire right lane, and giving a prayer chants in a friendly choir! Cars were passing by. The surprised faces of the people accompanied us. It turns out that the church is not only silent standing with bowed head and not only grandmothers! It is also a living youth".
  In addition, the summer festival program necessarily highlights the excursion day, when festival participants take buses and drive around on predetermined routes, and return to the festival venue in the evening. Everyone chooses their route in advance, when registering for the festival. According to Oksana Shashuto: "when we come to another city, we try to set aside a separate day for pilgrimage excursions to see those shrines, those cities, those beauties that are located there, which we generally have never seen and hardly would have seen if they hadn't come there. Therefore, <...> 6-7 variants of excursions are usually thought out by local guys. And in one day, all buses depart for different points of the region, the diocese". In this case, tours are not necessarily organized to churches or monasteries. It can be museums or natural or architectural monuments. As the participants get up early on the excursion, the morning rule is already read on the bus.
caption: The procession to Lahoysk. 2010 Summer festival
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