faith, in the best and always the sun on this holiday, is a tradition for us that we are already coming to the younger generation, an orthodox believer and our russian traditional orthodox country, that is, we preserve traditions and strengthen the orthodox faith. that is, it should be a joy for all our people, and being in the company of all this, you are inspired even more and you understand more and more that the fortress is precisely in the orthodox faith. already at night in the cathedral of christ the savior , the main festive service and the cross watch the live broadcast at 23:30 on our channel. well, now all the attention, of course, to jerusalem, believers are waiting for a big miracle with the walking of the holy fire in the church of the holy sepulcher, following the sacrament around the world , i repeat the centuries-old tradition, we will see on the first channel live before the broadcast, there is very little left. the holy fire is not appears every year on the eve of orthodox easter in the temple to put out the

candles on the vaklyuyu, this is the name of the chapel on the cave, where, according to legend, the body of the savior was buried will check and seal the patriarchates of jerusalem , lead the procession, and then go up to the chapel and, all alone, will read a special prayer. so jerusalem live broadcast. hello, dear viewers, ntv channel one russia 1 and the holy sikhvalny foundation apostle andrew the first-called, i present a live television broadcast of the annual ceremony of the holy fire descending, today we are the leading nun varvara vislova, priest andrei pasternak, dean of historians of the faculty of philology of the orthodox holy tikhonov humanitarian university. good afternoon, and today sergei pashkov will be with us in the temple. we are now in the most important holy

place in the world, where a great miracle took place, the sunday of our lord jesus christ, we now see the anointing stone, where his holy body was laid, over which lamps are hung denominations that are represented in the temple and now we see the interiors of this wonderful old temple. in which the ceremony of the convergence of the holy fire will take place, the operator showed us the lamps, they are all turned off the lamps, they are not burning, waiting for the convergence of the blessed fire and is located in front of the vukle, which we also just saw now, and the tomb of the lord, over which this special extension was made at the beginning of the 19th century and which guards, e, the great shrine of groups . lord, we see him now. just from above we see from above, and

around raton up to the sarcade and colonnade. it was built after a fire in 1808 and restored, that is, this is a 19th-century building, and the temple itself was restored in the form we see it now. here is a beautiful rotunda in the twelfth century during the time of the crusaders. although it was built, of course, much earlier in the fourth century under e, the emperor constantine and his mother and laziness, but e it collapsed and underwent various restructurings of the heat, and what we now see still goes back to the deep side. we see how the consumption of voklu, before which the lyricists of the church of the holy sepulcher stand. this side with a mosaic near the stone near the stone, the anointing of the lord is removed from

the cross and a huge roton is brought into the cave, yes, and the dome, which was erected by the architect, was built by russia and france, the turkish government also participated in the construction, the chamber descends, and we see the holy sepulcher, the pvu, plus from above and around the people who are waiting for the convergence of the holy fire again shows the lamps. the sun is shining, there is no fire. everyone froze in anticipation in prayer. the convergence of the blessed fire, when the lamps are brought in, such a prayerful state for everyone. and this expectation it is such an internal contemplative conversation with god in private, although a lot of people around a huge number of pilgrims want to come to the holy sepulcher on this day

, but, unfortunately, this year it will not be possible for everyone, because the israeli police, which, uh, carry out special security measures on holy saturday. it will be a certain limitation for half-witted ones, so there should be much more of them, but this year. unfortunately it will be, in my opinion, about 20,000. well, that 's a lot too. now we are shown the cross. this is the top uh. all e are filmed entering the temple want to keep as a keepsake. there are a lot of photographs , e, representatives of different churches. uh, orthodox pilgrims come here from all over the world. eh, basically. these are russian pilgrims, greeks, many copts. the locals, israel orthodox are many

very arabs. well, it must be said that in the ceremony itself, first of all, uh, representatives of the jerusalem and orthodox churches, headed by patriarch theophilos, will take part. third e, representatives of the armenian apostolic church and e, representatives of their own jacob's church. that is, far from all confessions that are represented in the church of the resurrection of the lord. here we are just now seeing representatives of the gray yakovitsky church. the church of the holy sepulcher on this special day turns instead of a pilgrimage for all the peasants of the world, because everyone honors holy saturday before easter. for us, this is precisely a special day of silence, as we sing today's service. let all human flesh be silent. that is, it is a day of silence of

silence. and, although of course, a very large number people flock to the tomb of the lord, but they strive to save. here is the prayer. in a state next to the kuvukley is now. as you can say, sergei pashkov, who from the scene can convey his feelings and give us a short story about what is happening now in the church, the sunday of the lord. for us, this is very valuable. e to understand what is going through a person who is directly in the place of the dog. we are waiting for sergey pashkov sergey good afternoon. hello we

are in the church of the resurrection in the church of the sepulcher from where the first ntv channel and the russia 1 channel are broadcasting today, as you can see, there are already a lot of pilgrims and tourists and clergy in the church of the tomb, those who arrived at the ceremony of convergence and illumination of the holy fire, really got to the temple. today, not many at 9:30 in the morning , traditionally, in the process of the armenian apostolic church, arrived at the square in front of the ancient basilica and brought there the key to the old oak gates of the church, but according to the existing status quo, the church gates were opened, by no means by representatives of the armenian church, but representatives of two old jerusalem muslim families. and well, this one. this tradition

exists. it has been here for almost eight centuries and it was introduced by salah addin, the muslim ruler of the city in order to avoid oppression of the locals, and christians from the muslim officials, on the other hand, traditions are again trampled by people who have no coffin glue, somewhere. i am standing now, a very dense crowd of people, if usually in pre-covid times there were up to 10,000 people in the church. it was a dense crowd throughout the vast territory of the temple of the sepulcher today we see a crowd only near the chapel of the local authorities and the police allowed only one and a half thousand people of the security forces to participate in the ceremony, israel explains these measures by the need to ensure security for the faithful, who at the church

will tell our hosts about the further course of the ceremony. we thank sergey pashkov for such a wonderful short report, and we will still have the opportunity to see how the doors of the temple were opened early this morning, what he said and it turns out that much fewer people were allowed into the temple. i am only 1,500 people were wrong. so maybe their number will gradually increase, in any case, the order is maintained. here the situation is very good. it screams. now arab youth consciousness. here they are, uh, dressed. uh, white and blue shirts beat drums, tambourines wave crosses and express their joy that now there will be a convergence of the blessed fire, they chant and

shout our hearts open to the lord, the lord lowered in the form of fire into bundles. and this is how the gunner shouts alone, and the man, and behind him everything pick up from candid. they are waiting for the convergence of the holy fire in joy, whistling and waving crosses. and sergei rightly mentioned in bunches the concept of the status quo, that is, the situation that existed before certain events began. and the presence of the arab youth is also an integral part of the ceremony of the descent of the holy fire, because without them these joyful cries. it can be said, the cries of prayer e does not occur precisely this is a wonderful ceremony. despite the fact that the arab

youth, it is very small, they live very difficult. naturally, in e islamic surroundings, but nonetheless. they keep this tradition going. they come with yaks, and we know that these bundles of candles are 33 according to the number of years of the savior's earthly life, well, they are held not only by the arab youth, but also by everyone who gathered in the temple, preparing to light them later from the blessed fire. this is such an eastern tradition, a joyful, eastern tradition. once i saw an arab with a huge , curved saber and shouting on a huge silver platter. uh, mother of god and his thrown up, and he cut his legs with a sword and cut it. ah, a thin handkerchief. e with great joy. this is an expression of joy. ah, the presence of

god in the temple. uh, the holy sepulcher, that now the most extraordinary moment is now, a miracle will happen a few years ago, in 2018. during our reporting, there was just a story dedicated to arab youth and those who are especially interested in this can look in the archives. after a while, we will now see how the discovery took place. e temple early this morning. highly long ago, the arabs entrusted the keeping of the key to the family, which stands below, and, accordingly

, the family, well, seiby, here is her representative, just now he was climbing the stairs, he has a special right to open the gates of the temple to muslims, as to outsiders who are not christians, who, as it were, are watching so that the gates are always opened every day correctly without passion, they are a guarantor of the safety of a kind. she has checked herself for many years by the farms, has been confirmed by turkish ones and is still observed. it's amazing, that for many centuries the farms issued since the time of salahaddin, they are still acting with reverence with reverence are kept in these muslim families. they still argue among themselves about which of them is older, and which of them has a more privileged status, but at the same time they themselves

live quite amicably. and this order is maintained every day. now we see, uh, early filming, when only the gates were opened, and the tomb of the lord was not yet sealed. it is checked by different representatives. is there any fire there? so that the tomb is empty, and then it is sealed and the key to the rude lord is kept on this day by a representative of the armenian apostolic church. you see that all the light of light is turned off everywhere. no, they are waiting for the light that comes down from the sky, uh, the greeks don't name it. eh, holy fire, holy fire. they call it holy light, and even in prayer we have such an expression in your light, lord light. light is a special biblical image, the

image that is preserved in our church history. actually, this is an image about fomitsky grace-filled color, which we remembered during great lent, when we talked about st. gregory for half a week, when we remembered precisely the meaning of human life, so that the acquisition of the holy spirit is one of the main things for every christian. of course, everyone can understand this in their own way, but it is a special grace. eh, sveta she is present in the temple. now we will see a short story dedicated to the history of the church of the holy sepulcher, the main place of veneration and pilgrimage for all christians, the church of the resurrection and the sepulcher of the lord, it was erected on the site of the crucifixion of

the burial and the resurrection of jesus christ, the modern church of the holy sepulcher, an architectural complex, including golgotha ​​with a place of crucifixion, roton oak kafalekon stone of peace anointing underground churches of the acquisition of the life-giving cross and the holy equal-to-the-apostles helena after the destruction of jerusalem in the seventieth year, on the site of golgotha ​​was the pagan temple of venus was built, which was demolished after the pilgrimage of st. helena, the mother of the byzantine emperor constantine, now the temple does not resemble original building. it was heavily destroyed in the seventh century during the invasion of the peppers. in its current form, the temple was built by the crusaders and consecrated in 1149, when jerusalem became the capital of the christian state of the crusaders during the time of sultan saladin in 1187

. the church of the holy sepulcher left all catholic bread. holy places were returned to orthodox christian pilgrims. visiting the temple was allowed. between six different denominations, an agreement was established on the ownership of the temple later in the 18th century, dubbed the status quo in accordance with it, the greek orthodox catholic armenian cop, syrian and ethiopian denominations were allocated their limits and hours for prayers with a symbol. the status quo has become a staircase. at the window of the facade, the original purpose, which, if necessary, go up or down through the window to the armenian limit of the second tier. temple, the status quo of holy places was confirmed in 1878 in berlin forever, securing the priority rights of the jerusalem orthodox church to preserve

christian shrines during the ottoman empire, the protection of order in the temple was entrusted to the turkish soldiers currently maintaining. order is entrusted to the israeli police to minimize conflicts between different faiths, the keys to the temple since the 12th century have been kept in an arab muslim family on the basis of ancient farmmans, decrees of the sultans of the temple, at all times millions of pilgrims and tourists strive to get there every year, the ascension of the holy fire, holding their breath waiting in different corners of the planet, watching broadcast of holy saturday service live. the presence of antiquity in the church of the lord's sunday is striking. every step is literally. it can be said that the status quo is regulated by the opening of the

temple itself and the presence of arab youth in a certain sense and the broadcast, which we have been for the nineteenth year. we are also part of this status quo and a certain presence of the russian presence in the holy land. and it is surprising that e is not observed in unison. uh, each denomination service is at 12:00. every night the service begins first, uh, grekov, then uh, serves the armenians after the armenian delegation now, who is standing here . forgive me to show our viewers. and it never swings in our delegation are represented by vladimir ivanovich yakunin, chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation of st. andrew the first-called, and pyotr ivanovich kononenko, first deputy chairman of the foundation, and bishop of odintsovo, krasnogorsk

, vecary of the net patriarch of the moscow region. many managed this year to visit the tomb of the lord and visit the convergence of fire, but they say that this grace is preserved for the next week, it travels a lot and flashes and a lot of different phenomena of the blessed fire, which is imprinted in the temple all year round and pious pilgrims feel this amazing presence of grace all year long. different denominations come to the temple one after another, also according to the status quo. and this tradition has been established for centuries now. here we look at how different denominations. uh

, they visit the temple, and they also enter under the protection of kavass of special guards, who have muslim times had to protect them. well, now they already perform police functions, and in a sense, this is also part of the tradition. how to correctly say the statuses, who they have staffs in their hands, and they, uh, they knock very hard on the stones. they started to come this morning representatives of different faiths. here we are now seeing representatives of the sulfur of the jacobite church leading a small group, since she is small in size, sometimes represented by a small delegation. and down around and a lot of uh, pilgrims around the square, they climb

on the foundations of the columns there were times when they stayed in europe from the night. lord, this tradition has changed, accordingly, stones are already standing in front of the entrance. this is the only entrance through which you can get to the temple and through which representatives of confessions entered this morning and russian icons. these are representatives of kursk, too, as i said. they are very small, so together they are christians, and in the red frescoes, these are just kavas with special rods. they knock to warn of coming. printed temple very beautiful pattern

they are preparing to seal their equal groups of the lord in order to prepare for the ceremony of the descent of the blessed fire. here, all representatives of different confessions are present, both the armenian apostolic church and the catholic. inspected by vera closed, but they carry just the seal that the father carries to panteleimon. now the sealing of doors also means the closing of the holy sepulcher, which was guarded by the romans. uh, the guards show the seal that a representative of the armenian church is entering. accompanied by kvass and they will be part of the ceremony. sealing,

as you can say, is also connected with the recollection of the gospel events of the holy sepulcher, on which a seal was placed and pontius pilate put guards so that no one would steal the body of the savior, as the pharisees believed, but, of course, it could only go on sunday. here we see another one. delicacy of the representatives of the confession in my opinion, they are continued by the representatives of the armenian church, everyone is concentrated and waiting. every day of fire here are such hats. yes, a small group of prayers, so they moving slowly. on the one hand, i have already

said, these are memoirs of the events of the gospel, and on the other hand, this is evidence that there is no one in the tomb. we look at it is empty and it is sealed. this is confirmed by a little chapel in the armenian border, where the mother of god stood and looked at dolgov from above, an unusual frame from the rotunda. we see big ones. it's inside the lodge. here we will see how the arab youth goes. here their arrival is connected with the mind. we have already said about this, that they show their love for god in such an unusual way by one word. as those who were close to them said. they even say that christ is from the same village as we are, that is, such a childish one

. e, the perception of e and the blessed fire and the resurrection of christ, because the fire and the resurrection for them are the only evidence of the gospel event, which we remember tomorrow, and in the holy land we are already beginning to perceive today the holy hours. you see them waving a white flag with crosses. this is the flag of the greek patriarchy. they are glorify, uh, the greek patriarchy support it at this moment whistle and tambourine drums sound waving crosses crosses are made of olives of the holy land on the crosses. uh, small icons are placed by the savior and huge candles are now holding 33 candles, snob is huge, it will be lit when

god bless this year, they make such ones, apparently specially to order, because unusual, of course, bundles of huge candles and every year is so festive. every year they have a different form. this year we see such white t-shirts with arabic inscriptions. in which christ is glorified, as a rule, they write christ is risen. orthodox faith, they shout support, they directly address the lord and childish spontaneity. but sometimes it leads, of course, to some fights, but we really hope it's under control. e israeli police and yet, despite their emotional elation. still. they adhere to certain rules of certain temples. the same time. it brings out some kind of festive atmosphere at this moment, because

that everyone is very concentrated and suddenly such sounds burst in. uh, and oddly enough, it supports you realize that it's a completely different people, that it's a different reaction? in our country, they still climbed onto metal fittings, which were removed several years ago after repair work. those restoration works that were carried out here in the seventeenth year could not be coordinated for a very long time, and again precisely because several confessions must agree, and this , of course, costs a lot of money. that is why here such restoration work they were, uh, stretched out, but a very long time almost to the twentieth century. but now we see the kuvuklya and the temple, uh, the lord is so special, one might say,

primeval beauty. what was it like in the 19th century? they continue to chant and enjoy the holiday. because it's very unusual. training, well, apparently, quite such secular young people, but at the same time it is a special honor for them to participate in this ceremony, because not everyone is allowed to be secular and spiritual at the same time. of course, the main the ceremony will be attended by patriarch theophilos of jerusalem , whose iii is awaited impatiently. and which will be the main one. proper