which we expect tomorrow. at the holy sepulcher , the priests are always in white. they go out after morning from the greek temple of the central catholicon 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. brotherhood, all the priests do not fit when the liturgy is in progress and they are in two columns. they stand like that on the left and on the right during the service near the holy sepulcher. and now in this, uh, unique sacred minutes in thunder. god let us recall that only the patriarch enters. and the representative of the armenian church enters. now we see the patriarch coming out. he will not celebrate the

divine liturgy. now it will be performed on easter night, and now the procession begins, when all the priests of the clergy begin to sing, then about the chants, which we will also sing at night, your sunday christ is saved and sings him naturally according to the greek chant of the lord by the greek patriarchate, of course, takes place on greek. and it is always surprising for pilgrims to be included in a different language, but uh it becomes a lot, understandable, but very our uh, everyone sings in russian and the gospel after reading the greek gospel in greek is also read in russian. the

greek church treats russian pilgrims and delegations with such respect. such amazing singing, which has been preserved since ancient times, preserved in the greek church on athos , and, of course, everyone remembers the latest events, with which the convergence of the rolling fire is actually connected, when the josephite and asked the body to be killed by the savior, having learned that the savior had already died on the cross and ordered to give the body, which was nicotine in josica. they were members of the sanhedrin and secret disciples of the savior they took. he was buried precisely in one of the new slaves,

carved into the rock just at this place. and they brought special fragrances to the shroud, which will be kept with reverence and passed on to generations of christians, if it comes to our days wrapped around this shroud, they are anointed on a stone, and they covered the body of the savior with this tongs and then anchoring him in this rock-hewn coffin. unfold the image of the saints on them, they carry them in a procession among all those walking, we see the patriarch the circle is a symbol of eternity, therefore the procession is an integral part of many divine services of the orthodox church, as we have already

said, it can also be sad processions associated with burials in thickness we do the same procession when we remember the assumption of the mother of god, but many processions are and the triumph of orthodoxy is as a symbol of joy, we will already be performing such a procession of the cross tonight and all in the coming week, when in all our churches the divine liturgy will necessarily end with a circumambulation. e of the temple of sarov with the accumulation of holy water with the blessing of the cross of all those who pray so that this celebration will be performed. for a whole week, easter will last in this way not a single day. so quietly the greeks enter and sing chants. prayer and according to the vestment here is such a gold

headdress. we see just the patriarch, we can keep an eye on him and, uh, a solemn silver staff in his hand. who crowns his head, we can just recognize that in front of us is the patriarch, he is walking and praying. you see that the priests of their friends recognize their children and welcomes here very simply. you can simply approach the patriarch and be blessed to be photographed even together. and now, at this solemn moment, of course, no one dares to ask about anything, patriarch. everything is in prayer. we are being watched. how is the procession. i am allowed to him too certain

the number of clergy, but also regulated in a certain way. the greek military is here, we see them by regions. then here is some kind of chosen guest of the patriarch circle, an elected circle that, together with servants, will bypass the thunder. procession of the lord, kavass go ahead, and we hear how they beat off with metal staffs. this is the traditional way to clear the way. you see how many people and the procession must go through. here in the ocean. again we see what is there among those walking in the depths. the patriarch moves with two pommel in in the form of such snakes that guard this staff. there

is a patriarch of the current neighborhood procession, it also resembles the way of the cross. eh, a savior in a certain sense, which, as we know, is also present in the city of jerusalem, where it actually ends. so the procession for us is a symbol of both the death and resurrection of the savior. on the left is mother, catherine is in the left corner. this is the abbess of gornev of the russian monastery. eh, our mother mothers are always traditionally present at the procession of the cross and each and every exodus. fire always visited, mother. georgy shchukin, the abbess of the mountain monastery, who died this year, we see the patriarch. he is concentrated all gone into himself,

praying, praying to the lord that the descent of the blessed fire would happen again this year. he is dressed in precious clothes, as befits the jerusalem patriarch. and prayer should, of course, be internal in the first place, because there is a time for common church services when we get together, but at the same time there is an obligatory tradition in the church. as he commanded savior to pray. you must go into your room, close the door behind you, and alone turn to god so that they don’t see you, so that it is your personal communion with christ, and this is a silent inner prayer

it must be in the life of every person in the life of every christian. especially in moments like these, when everyone has something to ask for. we have a lot of different insults to the difficulty problem. the lord often sends them to us precisely so that we remember god more often. in order for us to live our lives. damn, and it was compared with eternity, it was the thought of god , it puts many things in our earthly life in their place, and therefore sometimes to stop in the frantic rhythm of our life just turn to god to be silent, arrive in such silence and loneliness. it happens, sometimes it is very spiritually useful and gives us an understanding of a lot of what surrounds us and happens inside of us. now it is clear

that people are very united by common prayer. in a general state of expectation e descent of the grace of the holy sveta. it can be seen that everyone has somehow withdrawn into himself , concentrated, and, uh, the soul is waiting for this light. ah, sometimes there are flashes that are not always visible on our screen here. and when you stand there, you see these flashes. and there is even a smell about the zone , and you know, such as such flashes of lightning. here they are visible to those who are now standing opposite the lord inside. our time really lacks people of sincere faith, namely kindness, which keep this world, which is very often filled with self-interest, malice, those evil deeds, uh,

whose parents are satan, here is the overcoming of darkness and evil is, in fact, the main meaning of the life of any person and a christian in the first place, if a person does not strive for this, then he very often becomes callous. he very often loses the most important thing and at the same time retains the external human appearance. he often loses it internally. therefore, this ability and desire of a sincere person to repent of his sins to turn to god is very important in our purely rational rational world, when we are used to everything. exclusively from a pragmatic position, namely faith as the apostle says, this is confidence in the invisible. this expectation that our hope will come true is precisely the inspiring and

main thing that i am human life and the world as a whole. every person who participates in a miracle and awaits the descent of fire, he is in such a state, and for the sake of this experience, people just aspire to jerusalem and the tomb of the lord, and it is precisely at the moment of the blessed saturday, when the lord, saturdays and shows us that hell did not swallow him up and remembered the words of our famous prayer. where the hell is your victory this is a beautiful word avengers. john chrysostom tonight we will listen in all churches to this word and prayer, addressed to all who fasted and did not fast,

who prepared and did not prepare, but whose grace descends, god, when people really aspire to god, they pray for the descent of this grace and everyone feels it very much, here in the temple, there really is such a state, as in the one soul. ah, everyone in attendance. children of christ, this is this feeling, it is very strong at this moment in the temple, and everyone feels it. this is an amazing state. here are some slow motions. uh, some know, here's some kind of immersion in this grace going on. this is the mystery of the holy sepulcher, which is the grace that is always present there and is now felt especially strongly by everyone. we can say

that this is the mystery of great saturday, because when the lord was in the tomb, er, his disciples, those who followed christ, not only abandoned the savior, but they were very confused. they showed. e, such perplexity doubt, which put them on the verge of some kind of internal collapse is obtained. so that's it. what the savior taught, but it turned out that with his death it was over for them, this state did not last long , but it was also a certain test. uh, spiritual for the apostles for all who loved christ because this love was still preserved. despite obviously such was the soul that was shown by the disciples, despite these fears that seized them due to the fact that evil. it seemed that outwardly she won on the cross, despite

for all this is still great, saturday. this is a state of special peace, when there is a gradual assurance on sunday, when this is the expectation. well, what’s new is that it will change the whole world , it obviously embraced all the disciples and those wives of the mer-bearer who will come to the tomb in order to anoint the body of the savior with peace, wanting to create a stone from the tomb, this stone is now located just in the vestibule of the angel of the deepest . they still believed and knew that something was going to happen. even if they still could not fully manifest this faith, but love for god it drew them to the grave. they still understood that e was their savior. it has not yet ended, that the earthly days they ended the lord of

his stay on earth, but the new life begins the gospel to the new testament remember how the great saint georgia david burns life, approaching the gates of the holy fence of jerusalem, did not dare to enter the city and took the symbol of jerusalem symbol stones of the holy sepulcher. and not daring to enter with these pebbles, he went further, reached georgia, but the vision was of the patriarch of jerusalem, that all the grace of jerusalem left the lapel, and he sent a man there to see who was there near the gate. who took all the grace of jerusalem and took it away and it was david of garij, uh, a humble saint who did not dare to enter the holy city. he considered himself unworthy. to be in this holy city, to be

near the lord. and we know that when the lord died on the cross, the veils of the temple split in two, the earth shook, many came out of the tombs, the saints preached in jerusalem, as the evangelists tell us, again it is difficult for us to believe in such special miraculous signs that were associated with the earthly death of the saviors, but it is obvious that this is the feeling. eh, earthly catastrophes associated with the triumph of external sins. it was among the people who were at the cross were at the tomb. no wonder, uh, our holy church notes. uh, uh, holy in great lent, the holy e mary of egypt, with whom it was at the tomb of the lord. there was such a strong rebirth. she

came here to the gate by this old brother of the coffin, like a great sinner, and she thought that she she has the right to enter, but some power did not let her into the tomb. the lord she could not cross the threshold of a thousand people, it may be more sinful, and they crossed this threshold and entered, but she could not, but she did not see this power. who won't let her. she can't go in there . and that's just when she repented. she repented very much and decided to completely change her life at that moment. she was able to cross the threshold. she entered the tomb of the lord and even robed the halls of the ancient icon of the mother of god and talked to her, this icon is still kept here in right limit in the church. e, the forty martyrs of sebaste and there is also a small russian image, where

e mary of egypt is talking to the mother of god on her knees and promises her not to sin for more than 40 years. she was in the desert and there they learned to pray , and when she remembered her sins and her old sinful life, she simply threw herself on the sand. or the sting could lie down all day, and then get up and pray again. and during great lent, we remember mary of egypt several times, and even we have the state of mary of egypt for a week, as high uh church. uh, well, i appreciated her repentance is the only saint who devotes a whole reading of her life during lent just for edification. uh, a lesson to all christians about how a great sinner can change his life. actually.

this applies to any person. there may even be not such a terrible sinner if he compares himself with life, but the reverend mary, but she was able to achieve a lot of him in her life. and this means that every person who repents of those sins that he has, he can definitely something, uh, to achieve, and therefore the reverend will be so especially honored that whole weeks of great lent will be dedicated to the limit in the temple, and roughly the lord's, which is a huge complex, uh, associated with special places on earthly life. e of the savior who, as it were, materializes these events, which have the deepest spiritual meaning for us. to talk about such an iconic image of the holy sepulcher yes, here and who is glue, like an icon, so alive and debts and at the same time a lot,

uh, and the continuity goes here. uh in finding icons once, when there was a service, the jewish policemen approached the greek ministers and said that the icon is crying there, and the greeks went to the limit in the dungeon and saw that the icon of the mother of god had been renewed and tears were flowing. oh, economy, then they put a lot of candles in it, it was a little hmm, even so it became so smoked it was. they would have given the icon to, er, a nun hmm of the monastery of mary magdalene, they restored it and now it is in the treasury. it is in a special case under glass. this is this great miraculous icon, that is, the mother of god

is also present in icons in its own way. this is a very soul, a believer is waiting for this and for the presence of the mother of god. thus, many miraculous roots were found, and not only in the holy land, but in russia, mother george, e, the sisters found the port arthur icon of the mother of god on their passionate journey in an antique store, this was the second the apparition of the mother of god of port arthur was the first apparition in kiev on the eve of the russian-japanese war, and then 10,000 liang e, monks and pilgrims e brought in a nickel and ordered e to the artist. this a wonderful icon that appeared to the sailor of sevastopol in prayer so that port arthur would not fall in the mother of god said that there would be a terrible war. you

win here, uh, so write how i stand, and she stood in the iconography, uh, of veronica and held the miraculous plan. veronica is also, uh, the saint who is associated with the latter. uh, when the lord, you don't have a cross. yes, and uh, then the women wore such a large scarf, huge on their heads. veronica saw that some man, all wounded and with bruises, was carrying a cross. him his her home. she took off this board and gave it to him wondering. he rubbed himself, handed it to her, she turned around and saw the face of god of that man there. she realized that it was a prophet. she turned around for a fee from the whole crowd and began to show everyone that this cross carries. this is a great man, look reflected in my

dress. so this icon arose from veronica of the appearance of the mother of god in jerusalem on a passionate path in this antique shop it was, as it were. understood. eh, the blessing of the mother of god, to take it to the purple arthur and place this icon there. they didn't. so, and for the second time , mother george appeared and now she found e and bought and transferred to vladivostok the icon of the port arthur warrior that appeared in jerusalem, protecting the russian army. she is now in vladivostok well, in the russian church there are almost a lot of icons to them vladimir kazan italy my sorrows, which were also such difficult moments in our life history and the mother of god

not without reason and we turn first of all after savior because we know that through her prayers , miracles can be performed through her prayers. we can have a special consolation, which we often lack in a moment of sorrow of despondency of some kind of disorder, because the mother of god, who stood in front of the cross, which obviously participated in the burial of the savior, she experienced some not real torments, those torments that were predicted yet another auspicious seed when she brought the divine infant to the temple. he said a weapon would go through your soul. that is, you will, e, suffer, just like the savior suffered, physically on the cross. here for these sufferings of the mother of god, and as the mother of god and man. she was awarded special veneration, especially the favor of god

, and therefore we often resort to her, praying in front of her, and with icons, turning to her for minutes. and this is necessary, because it is the mother of god that is very much to us. let's remember. e help of the tikhvin mother of god, who came, uh, near petersburg to the swamp from byzantium, remember, it was an amazing case, uh, there was no petersburg yet, uh, the tikhvin icon, uh, before the end of byzantium, it passed from the greeks to russia , uh, and shone brightly in the swamp, and it was in tikhvin and its name became the tikhvin icon began to defend russia and uh, we know the story that until recently it was in the tikhvin monastery and then e was lost and saved her hmm

saved her. e, a non-german officer, oddly enough, he pulled it out of the burning church and handed it over to the latvian priest, who, together with the german army, went to europe, the icon was saved, and then transported to america and the father promised that if the icon will keep his family, and she was preserved by her. he will hand over to the russian orthodox church. the american church abroad and our russians had not yet been united, and at that moment the icon had already been transferred to russia; now the procession has ended and the patriarcheophile is now unmasking, he is taking off. and he enters in one podsakusnik with candles into the limit of the angel. removed the miter. yes, as they say, they

search him, they examine him so that there are no lighters , there are no matches, and he so humbly, undressed in one lower vestment, comes in and here we are after him we see a representative of the armenian church, who also enters with bundles, but he remains at the limit of the angel. there is just this bowl, uh, with a stone on which the angel was sitting. and he will transmit the lighted fire through a special window on the other hand, he will transmit if the fire descends, the patriarch of jerusalem and from the south there will already be a representative of armenia, we see the lights go out and the minutes of waiting begin, we know that the patriarch kneels before the false savior and reads a prayer the ascent of the

blessed fire, he prays for the whole earth and now in these moments he becomes the ecumenical patriarch in fact, he prays. now for all the inhabitants of the earth for the earth, so that this year the lord has mercy on our homeland, our earth so that all people remain in peace and live as the lord created them, and at this moment, the representative of the armenian church is also kneeling in angela also begs the lord to repent for us all for our sins. sometimes the fire often comes down already something is happening. yes, sometimes the fire quickly descends, maybe it happened now. and maybe it's just flashes, right? people are waiting for great tension, let us pray for peace. let

's pray for peace, lord, save our land in the world right now, just the most stressful moments and memories. now you have seen these flashes. they were on screen. we are waiting for the convergence of the holy fire on both sides of the coals of those windows that we said, now the holy fire should appear there. the people are quiet and praying. right now we are waiting for that very main event that transforms the christian life, because goodness.