as primordial beauty in what it was in the 19th century? the arabs continue to chant and rejoice in the holiday. everyone is filmed because it is very unusual. there are no 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 in the worldly and spiritual at the same time. of course, the main participant in the ceremony will be the patriarch theophilus of jerusalem , the third of whom is eagerly awaited. and which will be the main one. actually, heading

the ceremony of the convergence of the demonstration fire strikes the bell, uh, the bell towers of the holy sepulcher, the russian bells brought them in the 19th century, pitted. and they were dragged on foot on special skating rinks, and still not all of these bells hang and sound in the holy land. not one is broken, not one is silent. such a reverent attitude towards the bells, apparently, affected their safety. here, apparently, our delegation. and this is the arabs chanting again, i must say that russian pilgrims, starting from the 11th century, may have visited virusalim before. we know that a lampada from the whole russian world was also installed here at that time. time and now the russian presence. it is also available here in the form of bells of various icons of

lamps that are in the temple. for us. this is very valuable, a lot was donated by the royal family of the romanovs nicholas ii . eh, its presence is associated not only with special valuable traces, but also with the presence of the russian, one might say, creative intelligentsia of the holy land, which is associated with the activities of our artists and contemporary artists. to what will there be another story in the near future? with the increase in the presence of the russian clergy in the

holy lands in the 19th century, representatives of the creative intelligentsia wanted not only to see christian shrines, but also to artistically comprehend them, one of the first artists who traveled to palestine at the beginning of the 19th century became a famous russian painter. maxim nikiforovich vorobyov, the result of his painstaking work, was 90 watercolor drawings, some of which later became a landmark in the history of russian painting. many drawings are kept today. at tretyakov gallery. in moscow, in the russian museum in st. petersburg and other museums in russia, his students. brothers. chernetsov. they also visited the holy land and, as a result, albums of lithography with views of palestine were published. holy places attracted from the greatest russian artists of the 19th century such as vasily polenov vasily vereshchagin ilya repin ilya repin noted the specifics of the very

atmosphere of the features of sunlight in jerusalem here in the summer vasily vereshchagin created canvases in paints according to the essence of documentary creating pictures of biblical history. vasily polenov in palestine collected material for one of his main works, the painting christ and the sinner, the tradition of artistic understanding of the life of the holy land continued into the twentieth century. at present, orthodox nuns, carrying out obedience in the monastery of the gethsemane monastery, create watercolor drawings, which depict the places of the gospel events of the holy land, the place where the feet of the savior and the apostles stepped on many watercolors of the sisters of the monastery, you can see flowers according to the comments saints, fathers, a flower, as a symbol of perfection , was left by the lord on earth for a reminder. the

savior contemplated the heavenly paradise, the flowers of palestine, during his earthly life as a sister. in the siman monastery there are nuns who have a professional art education . thanks to their efforts, watercolors sani icons mazaika architecture, the restoration of icons harmoniously, fit into the difficult monastic life, creativity has become an integral part of monastic service in all russian monasteries. in the holy land, the nuns themselves consider the creation of watercolors in the holy land and subsequent exhibitions, as a missionary activity over the past 20 years, a traveling exhibition of the sisters' watercolors has been presented in the art museums of russia. we paint in the holy land through the contemplation of watercolor paintings, you can feel the grace of the holy land, feel the love that

the creator called us. here comes the patriarch, the theophilus of jerusalem , the third. well, at least, it should appear now, because pavas always come out surprisingly, always go first, not a woman, but then the metropolitans will go and the last ones are the patriarchs. such is the tradition and the path in which he, too, is rigidly fixed from the temple of jacob. there is a specially designed passage to the roof of the holy sepulcher to the greek patriarchate and up this staircase immediately from the patriarchy. uh, the entire delegation can go to the courtyard of the holy sepulcher, usually, uh, many guests

come from the seminary of the greek uh, students, listeners, teachers, many guests come from greece with desperation, they carry the richly decorated patriarchal cross and you see how everything is it is prostatitis such a ceremonial simplicity of the parish there is no such special solemnity, that is, everyone comes as servants of god, now the patriarch has already appeared. and now he has to go. he does not distinguish himself in any way,

and the metropolitans and priests surrounding him do not distinguish him, he is there inside. among them is one, but nevertheless he is the main person of this ceremony. he behaves in such a condescending way. that is, he emphasizes the extremity of this moment. age and how much this year celebrate their seventieth? with the boy, in fact, in the holy land, and he was also the rector of the church of the holy sepulcher, and when the question arose of electing a new patriarch, then he was sent to conflict , he was dressed in full hierarchal clothes patriarchal deeds. right now

he is directly showing the patriarch in front of us in deep clothes in such a simple monastic robe and only on the legs and precious crosses. we understand that we have a patriarch in front of us. the delegation is following him. they now go to the main greek a temple in a kafelekon, where the patriarch will change clothes. to put on and after that, the procession around should begin. they are trying to film the arrival of the patriarch. this is exactly what we are showing us as a conflict. e, crowded with people waiting for the convergence of the blessed fire here. these screams are screams, joys of expectation. these are arabs. this is how the arab women shout on the eve of holy saturday, according to tradition, at the

reception of the leaked patriarch on theophilus there were representatives of the russian delegation, which traditionally prayed for peace, e.g. for jerusalem and for the whole world, and after a while. we will be able to watch a story about this meeting of representatives of the russian delegation. foda is a stone representatives of our delegation vladimir ivanovich yakudin, chairman of the victorious council, presented valuable gifts to patriarch theophilus as part of the delegation, uh, there were episcopal patriarchs, bishop thomas vicar of krasnogorsk, who networked the patriarch of moscow all russia was the russian ambassador to israel anatoly dmitrievich viktorov and the head of the russian spiritual mission archimandrite alexander

yeltsin in greek, it is based on the words and 121 psalms about the hit of the world jerusalem first of the patriarchs, it reads in greek, what is emphasized? therefore, jerusalem is the holy land, therefore, he needs a special prayer for the sake of peace on earth, which comes from this sacred place, the patriarch asks god to preserve the world of miracles,

food, glorified by the holy one forever, which are connected only with jerusalem, but with the whole world. what we pray in our day is that this peace will reign in our hearts and around us. this country a long tradition of such a special meeting with e- patriarch, which every year, well, except only for the events connected with the twentieth year, but there was a warm e atmosphere between e, the patriarch and representatives of our russian delegation of the russian spiritual mission. right now,

when there is a procession, we can just ask for peace and such a special state for everyone, and everyone expects that at this moment it is the lord who will visit his soul and his heart during the procession around the recesses at this moment. eh, just every soul and everyone standing here prays for peace and waits for the lord to have mercy this year and this year the holy fire will come down. and each bundle can be ignited with a flowery fire that does not burn in the first minutes, it has non-earthly properties. it is a cold fire, not for nothing, the greeks call it the holy light, they call it light and compare it with the light of tabor. and we see how kavas, he

manages to restrain with great difficulty. here are the people who are pressing, and although there are much fewer people than usual, but nevertheless, nevertheless, everyone wants to to be present next to the patriarch, who, again , according to the regulations, is suitable for representatives of all faiths and e, is welcomed by the armenian delegation, which traditionally always welcomes the first. eh, just the patriarchs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 such small badges that say

tf this is a sign of the greek patriarchy and in general they wear crosses, because tunics are also characteristic of arabs, some priests. just hearty fabulous attitude ask. how many arabs here in jerusalem can they look like our nuns? that's what they compare. uh, as if this is a monastic presence in the holy land of a monk nun. now they should also be near the grep of the lord, so we saw in the plot that they are engaged in such a wonderful thing as painting, and it is obvious that this is also part of their preaching of their especially complete work of wearing. e your form of the monastic holy form. this is such a prayerful wearing, when

a nun walks around jerusalem around e, grace spreads and respects e, different denominations to each other, the priests are especially distinguished. arabs call their abuna. and if you and the priest come up to buy juice, then the priests and admirers will give it first and say abuna. that's right for him. this juice, because he prays, he is a prayer book. and here it is highly respected in the holy land and welcome when you stand. near the temple , cross yourself with the banner of the cross and bow to the ground in the same way as other denominations pray at this moment, if the time has come for a muslim to pray. he gets out of the car, throws a rug and starts bowing towards mecca, that is, here different denominations, and all in prayer, and, as it were, this is

why we pray for peace, so that hmm there would be no infringement of denominations, so that everyone would be given a lot of the right to pray for this, the self-atmosphere of the holy city calls for this. here in the center in the heart of the holy sepulcher is amazing. eh, this is where we are now at the tomb, where there will be sunday, christ's everyone feels this in his temple now in every temple. we have shrouds, the coffin of the lord is a symbol of the holy sepulcher so sacred, and the holy fathers call the altar the tomb of the lord yes great saturday. she sums up the passion day, during which we recalled the last days of the savior's earthly life , especially great thursday, when we read 12

gospels in all churches, namely those gospels in which judas's betrayal is told about how the lord was left alone, abandoned by his disciples about how those prophecies came true, in which he spoke to his disciples whom it was said in the old testament that he would be crucified on the cross and after 3 days he would rise again. on good friday, great day yesterday, we are just in the morning they read, the great clock in all churches, then they took it out into the shroud, which mother said to all churches, and in the evening they performed the procession here, which does not symbolize a burial. eh, christ, this sad procession of the cross , it will be repeated now, but it will be combined already with the resurrection of christ, such an unusual combination right here in the temple, sunday. we will see that hmm the procession,

which should be associated with the burial. at the same time, he becomes a forceful sunday trampling death by death. we sing the lord is dead and corrected by his death death is the tomb of the lord is the center of life. this is such an amazing antinomy, and here we are, in front of this miracle. the lord conquers death. he takes adam from hell without finding him on earth, as it is said, in the holy saturday prayer, adam is not on earth. he is in hell, the lord does not find him on earth and dies descends into hell and there finds adam the iconography of the resurrection the lord from hell takes

adam by the hand and eve his clothes develop against the background of mondorla such a radiance, the shining lord enters hell. and it's radiance. we will see each other here soon, and this attracts pilgrims very much because of this sacred history, these events. they will develop here right now before our very eyes. it's such an amazing connection. uh, with eternity with god's presence. lord now our eyes will trample the evil of the evil of the whole world. now, uh, marriage will be defeated right before our eyes and the holy fire will come down. we all very much hope now there will be a prayer and three times. uh, the procession will bypass the thunder. lord and prayer

you see that people say vague words, it’s just that everyone is united into a single soul in such a state that you want to touch the lord, you want to pray. i would like to ask. like these arabs who beat the drums, but quietly, in your heart, lord, do not look at our sins. and this year, in the form of the blessed fire, you remember that when it was from the birth of the fiery tongues on the apostles of the trinity that this was the first such manifestation of the blessed fire, the researchers also remember how moses stood at the burning bush and contemplated.

this fire is grace and from there the lord said to the question of moses who are you? lord, he answered, and there is a son. i am the bearer of the existing answers us this is now happening in the center of the earth now here we will be connected with us. let's listen again to sergei pashkov, a report we salute the chapel of the tomb from the church of the resurrection in the very center of the ancient city of jerusalem, from where the convergence of the illumination of the blessed fire is broadcast on three channels at once, russia-1 channel one and ntv show the apogee of the ceremony of the descent of the blessed. the fire has already arrived in the process of the greek jerusalem orthodox church members. the coffin said the brotherhood entered the temple with

them arrived the patriarch, theophilus of jerusalem, who with a procession, under the scarlet banners. three times, he will go around the bleak of the chapel of the coffin, then undress and, together with a representative of the armenian apostolic church. will go inside. now they are swollen and sealed with a yellow seal inside. all the lamps have been extinguished, despite the fact that the kubukli is quite crowded, despite the fact that representatives of the local youth arab communities and uh, slogans are chanted in arabic and aramaic , our faith, the right orthodox faith, uh, despite this thickness in the temple, the police are quite spacious and for security reasons allowed only one and a half thousand pilgrims and believers at the ceremony, but despite this, here in the temple. near klin are representatives of the russian foundation of andrei the

first-called, headed by vladimir yakunin and the deputy chairman of the board of trustees. petron, kanonenko, they will receive the holy fire, lit on the tomb of the lord with a special lamp. they will take her to ben gurion airport. this means that on the easter bright seven. glasses of blessed fire from the holy sepulcher in jerusalem will shine both in the capital's churches and in small provincial churches. so in the church the light will soon be extinguished, those gathered are doing the jesus prayer, waiting for the descent of the blessed fire. now we were being shown a large lampada, which the bishop had brought out and was being examined. it will be placed on the tomb of the lord and will

also be lit. the holy fire appears on the lid roughly, like dew. and a lot of fleece is put there by the light-groups and then these cotton wool is distributed. these are fleece, saturated with grace from this grace from the blue flame that arose later, the patriarch. may it ignite its main beams. blessed with blessed fire what were your impressions in mother, when you were at the convergence of the blessed fire directly next to the strawberries, you know, it’s impossible to even describe them, what happens to everyone, that is, all the people stand in one soul, everyone is waiting for fire, and we seem to all merge with each other and remember a lot

and are afraid that because of you a sinner this year the fire will not come down, because there are so many sins. and you got here. how did you get here among these wonderful kind holy people who came for grace to us by fire. it becomes somehow ashamed of one's own soul, imperfect of oneself. and then you understand that the lord forgives you, you stand repenting, remember how much grace you received from god, that is, you remember a lot of things. and, of course, you ask for your beloved russia for your homeland , so that everything will be fine in our homeland. and we are the armies of monks. we even walk like warriors with us such military attire. so we must pray for the peace of the whole world, and we do this to me and pray in

these holy moments. now we call everyone to pray for peace. it is very important now to preserve the iconic image of the earth, how did the lord create our earth, how beautiful is it? what are the unusual flowers of the river? our great russian writer prishvin said that love is written in flowers, that is, our beautiful planet earth is like a book, here the lord wrote everything down . he decorated everything here. we must love. the lord gave us the golden key of the concept of how we live. we need to love and that's the main thing. i think that this is a common impression even of those people who could not be close to kuba klei, who were at those services that we just called all holy week, because these amazing

hymns that we heard were these special gospel readings. they are not just spiritual symbols. they are precisely a certain contact with eternity. we believe that through worship through the sacrament of the eucharist. we are united with christ also here today, during the liturgy of great saturday , a special reception was read, that is, the old testament reading, which spoke of prophecies about how it could happen on sunday. what were the examples of this resurrection in the old testament, which were accomplished thanks to prayers. e righteous. e, elisha, for example, or a special miracle that happened to three youths by young people who found themselves in a pagan e, furnace, where they were thrown by the pagan ruler nebuchadnezzar and

this image of the three youths did not suffer, it is red the thread runs through e, the worship of our church and in our tradition is such a special symbol of the resurrection of christ, which we of course remember, which we partake of on these special days of grace. and, of course, dressing up is such a future foreshadowing of the resurrection. e priests. here we have seen how the patriarch. uh, went to get dressed, but during the liturgy today. this dressing up took place in all churches, not only of bishops, but also of priests, who changed dark clothes from black cuts to white ones, when, after reading e, the apostle of the apostolic reading before the gospel, the priest already goes out to the people in white robes. this, too, is justice. uh, christ's resurrection, which we

expect tomorrow. the lord's priests are always in white. they leave after morning from the greek temple of the central coffee shop of the lord's sepulcher. e in white robes. right now we see how the entire delegation of priests in these white robes with blue crosses embroidered goes to the coffin of the lord's brotherhood. all the priests do not fit when the liturgy is in progress and they are two columns. so, left and right, they stand during the service near the rude lord. and now, in this, uh, unique sacred minutes, let us recall that only the patriarch enters the thunder of the lord and the representative of the armenian church enters. now we see the patriarch coming out.