beginning at 23:30 and now we will return to jerusalem , where right at this moment at the church of the holy sepulcher , believers continue to gather with trepidation and excitement. everyone is waiting for a great miracle, which symbolizes the resurrection. christ's descent of the holy fire pilgrims gathered inside the temple, and in the square in their hands. everyone has candles and lamps to bring a piece of the sacred flame home and share it with others, the fire will be taken all over the world. including on a special flight it will be delivered to our country for easter services, everything that happens in i repeat in jerusalem. we will see live on channel one the holy fire descends every year on the eve of orthodox easter and is always awaited with deep awe and hope.

so, jerusalem, the convergence of the holy fire, live broadcast good afternoon, dear viewers, the ntv television company channel one russia 1 and the holy apostle andrew the first-called foundation present a live television broadcast of the annual ceremony of the convergence of the holy fire, today we are presenters rita borisovna butova senior candidate of historical sciences researcher at the institute of the russian institute of the history of wounds, members of the operator orthodox palestinian society and professor, dean of the faculty of history and philology of the orthodox st. tikhon humanitarian university, priest andrei pasternak hello hello in addition, the temple is a russian journalist sergei pashkov with whom we will later get in touch. we are now in the most important place today on blessed saturday - this is the church of the holy sepulcher, the church

of the resurrection. lord we now see him the inner space is a huge dome, under which is located near the vukl the place where it happened on sunday, which we will remember and celebrate tomorrow, was built almost immediately after it happened on the sunday of christ, it was rebuilt many times. and now what we see is the goblets of the 19th century hanging in front, which mark the denominations that are present here, since the temple is divided between several christian denominations, which, according to a clear schedule perform divine services here and who will participate in the current ceremony of the descent of the holy fire. well, by the way, you see, now uh, the entrance to the square and uh is traditionally in accordance with the status quo

, ah, the lamps, here are only catholic ones in the center, orthodox and in the very uh, bottom, uh, armenian ones, well, surprise now, uh, we do not see, but armenian lamps, but apparently, this is a decision. eh, the most e armenian after the church. uh, before the repair of the dome in 2016-17 , these lamps. there were here already gradually gathering people. this year , certain restrictions have been introduced, about 2,000 people must be allowed into the temple, but obviously here, probably much more people will gather. everyone is gradually coming together. well, we saw in the process with the harui, and people from different countries are going to bow to the rude lord of the russian delegation, which came, uh, one of the first.

represents, we are just seeing it now. this is some lead to what was e before we see, just the green bandages of our representatives. and at the head and at the head of our delegation, the head of the fund of the all-praised apostle andrew the first-called, we can say that the russian footprint is constantly present in this holy place, because russian pilgrims from the very first times sought to get to the church of the holy sepulcher in order to put a lamp here, so that they could was here to pray. and now we just see how this tradition continues in the face of our pilgrims who

come. and above the stone, and also we see those lamps that represent confessions that are in temple. well, actually only four will participate in the current ceremony. they are the six, among which it is equally divided these are the representatives of the jerusalem patriarchate , the armenian apostolic church and the syrian church of ikop. well, you see, despite the restrictive measures of pilgrims. uh, quite a lot came and uh. the rotunda is full of people praying and waiting for today's ceremony,

which quite emotionally express their feelings, being here, as you have seen, they do not wave flags and shout prayers loudly. but in what sense is it also a part the ritual that takes place here. please note that one of the pilgrims even sits on the roof of the chapel of the head, but this is shown to us, in which today out of 19 bells, eight bells are made in russia , including one of the most important bells that we always hear when going to church e patriarch, he was specially cast in moscow in 1886 and we also see the colonnades, which are decorated with lamps donated, also with

the blessing of the imperial family of alexander ii and empress maria alexandrovna, by the way, these lamps, e, 100 and uh and the drawing was approved by the patriarch of jerusalem uh and uh and uh these table lamps were made in st. petersburg and it all cost eight and a half thousand rubles. by the way, yes. you see, again we are shown a voklyu and pilgrims standing next to it, as we have already said, traditionally our delegation is accompanied by russian journalists. now sergey pashkov is in the temple, whom we can now talk to. sergey good afternoon. we are listening to you. hello dear viewers. hello, dear leading

father andrey rita borisovna, we are now we are in the church of the holy sepulcher directly next to the holy of holies chapel of the tomb i will buy from us here noisy and loud, because a few minutes ago a crowd of arab orthodox youth burst into the temple on the shoulders of each other, rattling in a torbuk. this is the near eastern drum, and exclaiming in arabic our cause is a just orthodox cause , they continue theirs. and they continue this service, which will now turn into the patriarchal cross procession. i think that here in the cube, which is now sealed with yellow wax, and where the extinguished lampada will go to the patriarch. e

theophiles, when he goes there, all this crowd outside will make our prayer , e, a prayer to jesus lord jesus christ , have mercy on me a sinner. i am near the glue club among the pilgrims from russia, this is the foundation of st. andrew the first-called, who has already been to the holy land for 21 times in order to take with him to moscow in a lamp a little bit of the blessed one illuminated by the drop of the lord. fire. this is fire. meet at the airport. he is taken to russian provincial and metropolitan churches, and he rises. today on patriarchal service in the cathedral of christ the savior in moscow, there are relatively few pilgrims under the vaults of the church of the sepulcher. this is about a dense noisy crowd, but about 3,000 orthodox people from the entire christian world are allowed into the church of the sepulcher,

most of the people who arrived here and went through the procession. victory la rosa on good friday. couldn't get inside. since the security measures taken by the israeli police do not allow such pandemonium inside the temple. they are now waiting for ulyanovsk breeds and soon, probably, already in an hour, the fiery river , splashing into the temple, will come out on the streets of jerusalem under the blagovest, and this fire will part from lampada to lampada, from candle to candle, people will thank each other and congratulate me waiting for midnight. with the words christ is risen, well, now the youth , uh, orthodox muslim forgive orthodox arab youth under the vaults of the temple continues to rattle to the drums continues to exclaim our faith, the right orthodox faith, by the way, speaking during the british mandate for more than 60 years. need more

80 years ago they tried to prevent them from entering the temple, they believe that it is not too decent for such a great day , according to believe, then the holy fire did not descend until the young, confessing people were given the opportunity to shout out and express everything they wanted and wanted shout out and express at that moment, as soon as the orthodox arab youth makes noise, the temple plunges into darkness, and we are with reverence and awe. we will wait for the patriarchal process. which will end with the convergence of illumination in the thunder of the blessed fire. thanks a lot, dear sergey, and so we welcome our delegation headed by vladimir ivanovich yakunin, we apologize we were worried and at first misrepresented our delegation, but now we are correcting ourselves and want

to testify that this is what is happening now this is really a special event already in the twenties here in a row we are broadcasting our delegations from jerusalem from the church of the resurrection of the lord. for over 20 years now. they are present here, so this russian presence in a sense is also part of the unchanging status that is preserved in this temple of the status quo. well , in general, of course, this is a concept that has a special status for the church of the resurrection. uh, it was formed back in the middle of the 18th century and uh, since then, for already uh, soon, somehow, two uh centuries, it retains this special status and uh, this is a completely hmm unique, uh, phenomenon in history. uh, when e the temple

in which representatives of different denominations pray, at last they were able, e, to agree and fix e agreements so that wars would not start, so that there would be no conflicts, so that there would be peace at least to the very temple. and it must be said that this peace was established through the mediation of the muslim authorities, uh, which in this way. well, in a sense, they tried on among themselves those christians, for whom, of course, the possession of this shrine is, uh, one of the most important. you can say key events. well, this world is still preserved right now on the temple, when repairs are taking place, when it changes, uh, like some kind of situation related to the conduct of worship. all this happens precisely by a certain agreement between all denominations that are present here and here we see it. ah, the symbol. e coordination

throughout the twentieth century, and she stood e, tightened with a metal frame until it was completed in 2016-17. her repair. well, by the way, if you remember, uh, about the rotunda, then we can talk and about the dome. ah, this is generally such one of the most vulnerable places in the temple in general in its long-suffering. e, the persians burned his stories, and destroyed hakim e, mad, and destroyed the natural phenomenon, for example, he was destroyed in 1834 as a result. e earthquakes and uh, the stone vault cracked so much that it almost fell down completely and for 35 years there was such an

absolutely wonderful uh, the so-called business, but paid off, which ended. and which ended with the project of two emperors, and here we are now uh, we see, uh dome a and uh, old photographs show there how much the dome was uh, destroyed in 1834 and restored thanks to an agreement between emperor alexander ii of the era and the emperor. ah, napoleon iii. it was one of the best phenomena of cooperation between russia and france in the holy land. now we are again shown the pilgrims who are already waiting and preparing for the procession. but, well, for now, before the procession at some time, it must pass until they

appear to the jerusalem patriarchs. now let's see what happened early in the morning when this happened. absolutely wonderful ceremony for opening the door of the temple of the resurrection it can be said that this ceremony is just part of the status quo, as we have already said the keys to the temple of the lord they are kept in one of the e, important and respected muslim family al-hussein, which received these rights, starting from the 12th century from the time of saladin, who captured jerusalem approaching the entrance to the temple of the lord. first they knock to get permission to enter. as we can see, a special staircase is being installed, and

the right to open this door belongs to another, also venerable family, who every day open and, accordingly, close the representatives of the armenian apostolic church. well, in general, i would like to talk more about the family. museiba. this is a very famous clan of sunni muslims in the middle east, very revered. only in the 20th century , ministers in several countries and diplomats were its representatives. hmm but, but in general. eh, it turns out that this is such a work. eh, such a service for the benefit of the temple. uh, this is uh very very very important. by the way, nu seiby came. the family came to russia , they were with us in the caucasus and, uh, they really, really

liked it, and here are the old nosaibs who open adjika, which opens just now these ancient, and ancient castles, and he repeatedly spoke about his love for russian pilgrims and russia. and we want to remind you that this is currently the only main entrance since. uh , part of e brother is walled up and you can get into the temple only by the way that the breakdowns are going through now, as we see in the morning this crowd has already begun to fill the guards. and everyone passes right by the anointing stone. we 're back to live. again we see the corner and wait for the entrance of ram the patriarch philosopher.

patriarch theophilus has a very eastern style, a very long title, and his name is his divine bliss patriarch of holy city, jerusalem and all palestine series of arabia just for jordan of canna of galilee and holy zion, he has been carrying this title since 2005 and is the 141st patriarch of jerusalem. we remind you that we are broadcasting live from jerusalem from the church of the resurrection of the holy sepulcher and we want to thank you. e, channel one russia 1 tv company ntv ntv for organizing today's television broadcast and, of course, the fund of all the free apostle. pilgrims waiting when they

enter the temple, we see they carry bundles of candles, as a rule, in each bundle there are 33 candles according to the number of years of the savior's earthly life , these bundles of candles are precisely. they keep, when they are lit in the car, they extinguish them, they keep them as shrines for the next time. and we see that it is very hot in jerusalem now, of course, it is very difficult for the holes. now security is provided by the israeli police, and as a rule, everything goes without incident. we see that this is the police, too, as an external side. so it was always so it was in the 19th century, when order was provided. uh, the turkish army is like that and now you know we talked a lot in past broadcasts

about the fact that the first russian pilgrim who described the convergence of the blessed fire was hegumendanil in the xii century and thanks. eh, his walk and this beautiful literary work, we know about the ancient veneration of the meeting place of the mother of god with her cousin elizabeth, described in the gospel of luke, and today the russian mountain monastery is located here. gorkinskiye women's monastery is one of the centers of the russian orthodoxy in the holy land the cloisters are located in jerusalem in the area after the opening in the 19th century of a sea connection from russia to the port of yafa, the mass of pilgrims began to come to palestine to visit holy places. one of the revered places was the meeting place

of the virgin mary with elizabeth. by that time there was already a catholic monastery here, and our pilgrims asked for an overnight stay in the catholic monastery. of course, they were not refused. but it was wrong, the orthodox arabs who lived then as military officers did not even have their own parish church. that is why archimandrite antonin kapustin was worried about the acquisition. at this place of the plot of land , active assistance from zion to antonin. rendered by pavel petrovich melnikov, a member of the state council and former minister of communications, melnikov organized a committee to raise the necessary funds and with this money the archimandrite. antoninus was able to acquire land. he raised funds for several years in russia and was able to uh buy a huge uh. i would say the size of the largest plot on earth in 1871. the land was

framed. after which there appeared the arab, and then the russian community, father antonin proposed an unusual solution for its devices. he wanted our orthodox pilgrims, but mostly they were widows, and nuns could come here to the holy land and buy small plots from the mission to build their houses, as they wanted in their own way, each with the condition to set up. e, around the houses near the plot of land to make a garden and ennoble the territory, father antonin initiated the construction of temples. in honor of the meeting of the mother of god with the righteous elizabeth now, illuminated in honor of the kazan icon the mother of god and in 2012 the second temple was consecrated, the cathedral of all saints in the russian land , who shone every year to pray here

, thousands of monuments come here to tell you to help find those holy places where you definitely need to pray when visiting the holy land. well, as usual in every russian monastery, there are all those obediences, uh, that the sisters rush every day. well, of course, the most important thing, for us. this is a prayer prayer in the holy land. today, in difficult times, pilgrims and sisters of the monastery say that the connection russia with the holy land, which is especially important for many russians living abroad, orthodoxy remains a connecting thread with russia in this place, of course, to everyone who lives here, both laymen and monastics and clergy to everyone, and it is very responsible to live. this obedience is very responsible. we realize this before god, before the russian

orthodox church, before all the pilgrims who come here, the gorninsky monastery, created with the participation of thousands of orthodox, has survived difficult times and has retained its originality and rightfully is the pearl of russian orthodoxy in the holy land. and when the monastery arrives. we see that people with such joy and such trepidation enter the holy land. they are so grateful for everything. it even seems to us that e is not for what it is usually. feed meet and conduct a tour, but they are all so radiant and grateful and overflowing with such joy, that it is understandable that their lord comforts their mother of god very much. e, she blesses, and they feel, uh, inexpressible joy and gratitude e not only to the lord the mother of god and the saints, but also to everyone who surrounds them and we also fall into the number of those to whom they are grateful, maybe even completely and, uh, not deserved. we

return to the temple of the resurrection and involuntarily comes the comparison of this place of joy of motherhood, the birth of a baby, the birth of new souls and kuvulya, which we now see the pre-day lies of death. and here we are quite often. hmm, we are shown, uh, the southern part of the ratunda, which belongs to the armenians today. and under the stairs to the gallery , a literate theory is placed here on four columns, this is the place where, according to the legend of the armenian the most holy thing stood in the church at the time of the crucifixion of the theory of the three seas in the vegetable gardens of mary magdalene and mary of the cleopas standing not far from the place of execution of the savior. we have just

seen the already sealed entrance to the kuvuklya, with a special wax seal memories of those events that are connected, of course, with the resurrection. e savior, we have been remembering the special days this week when the lord, er, entered the path of suffering. he denounced the pharisees for the formalism that they had, he denounced people who were hypocrites and called for the sincere and genuine faith of his son god's precisely in this was the main meaning of the sermon that the lord left to us throughout his earthly life and in those last days when he was still with his disciples and during divine services, starting from the beginning. eh, this week's week, we remembered those parables, those words that

the lord addressed to his disciples to his followers for the last time and actually, starting from wednesday. we have already embarked on the path that leads to the current event to the current place connected. this was, of course, from the last meeting of the savior at the last supper with the disciples, when he left that commandment, which all christians must observe , the commandment is connected with the communion of the holy mysteries of christ and participation in the liturgy. in the evening. on thursday. we read twelve gospels related to the sufferings of the savior by all his betrayal. judas with how he was left alone abandoned, even by his own, in the near disciples and memories. here is not a right judgment, which was, we hope, accomplished, but all of yesterday from good friday. we already recalled, in fact, those crucifixions,

the sufferings to which he underwent in this holy place on golgotha ​​these sufferings. of course, they cannot be conveyed in human language, one might say, and therefore it is precisely through worship, through the mystery that the holy church abhors to us. we can touch this present place. it is , of course, saturated with these special graces of the suffering that the savior endured. well , as we know, godfather putin is now preserved in jerusalem. that is, here is the path that the savior went through. and before he was crucified, he carried a cross on his shoulders and, having already found himself in this place, the body.

and here is the memories just about how it happened and now a little earlier it happened that the doll was sealed with a large wax seal, which is placed on the gate of this doll. and here we see how just the representatives of those muslim families who, in fact, open the temple, they must put their testimonies on this seal on this seal. seals is the ancient

name for this seal being empty, and uh it's usually used to refer to something that can't be opened until a certain point. eh, according to the legend the thick one was made of wax, on which 40 liturgies were previously celebrated. it is difficult for us to check whether this is so now, but we believe that wax is a specially prepared wax that is sealed. the three-day bed of the savior, the sealing of the kugukli also signifies that there is no one there, the kubukli is divided into two parts , the limit of the angel. here we see how this wax. now he brings it to the entrance, just to this limit of the angel, where the divine liturgy is usually performed just on a special

stone e, a covering that actually signified here a stone, which was laid on the place of entry. and the fact that the footage that we are now seeing, of course, cannot help but recall those words of pilate. whoever said have guards. go, guard, as you know, they went and put guards on the coffin and put a seal on the stone, and uh, we see that what is seven uh, representatives of uh, families that keep uh, keys, they put uh, this seal faris, they did not believe in sunday saviors, therefore the guard that was installed in front of the tomb should also testify that the savior was not the disciples stole it, as the pharisees were

convinced of this, when they bribed, then the guards, as the leaf tells that aff they money they spread rumors that the body of the saviors had been stolen. here we, unfortunately, cannot see, but e the entrance from the limit of the angels into the cave of the lord's tomb. today, it is decorated with a marble portal and on the left at the entrance are the myrrh-bearing wives and on the right, the archangel gabriel extends his hand to them and at the top of the portal there is a marble shelf with an inscription in greek, reproducing the words of an angel. what are you looking for living among the dead him here? no, he was resurrected and in order to join the mystery, sunday, as we said, many representatives of different faiths gather here in the temple, in a

sense, on the sunday of christ it unites christians who do not have liturgical communion with each other in real earthly life. and now we can see. uh, in a record of how representatives of these denominations came, uh, to the temple some time ago. now we see how a delegation enters the temple. which are according to the status quo also have certain limits in which they perform their services according to a certain schedule, as we know, services are performed at the grottoes of the lord, and the armenian apostolic church belongs to the part of the cry, which is located on the head of the savior

. but now we see the copy and we now had a happy opportunity to see. e kavasov. uh, in the clothes in which they, uh, came back in the 19th century, it’s difficult, it happens sometimes. let's go to church on the sunday of christ is not so easy because of the restrictive measures that were taken today. and this is just the delegation of the armenian church looked at first. yes, at first there were cops, now they are armenian. yes, and they already have kavass in the form that is accepted in jerusalem well, in the last about 30 years they have switched from their national clothes to such more europeanized clothes, retaining only uh, fezzes and heavy staffs, which i

as i understand it, it can also get some careless pilgrims. yes, and it hurts a lot, especially when this staff hits the leg, and now, when we sometimes say hmm what role do they play about you? and what they are absolutely nominal. this is not entirely true, because they still work together with the israeli security services. a few years ago, we talked in great detail about vaskh, so for those who are interested in this. you can review. well, now this is also part of that ritual, that is , the ceremony, which we are witnessing now. each representative of the confession who comes to the temple has a certain place where they can be, as i said representatives of the confessions

occupy certain places where they perform their services and prayers throughout the day according to a certain routine. and we again returned to the live broadcast in the church of the resurrection. e, the lord's and we are waiting for the arrival of the patriarch and the general, which is apparently delayed. and i wanted to add that in the 19th century, uh, those problems that sometimes existed between representatives of different faiths. they just proceeded from the fact that the jackets are syrians, and the armenians are orthodox or catholics. uh, wanted to m-m proceed with the restrictions that they had and this evoked that call, certain fighting moods. hmm. even this also happened and blood came. ah, well, now, you

see, happy emotional, uh, conversations, but for sure, it's just a conversation. uh, it’s about, uh, who will participate in the procession, it’s clear that the expectations of this event, but calls are part of in a sense , the life that turns out to be, uh, the current pilgrimage, because in order to to participate in this ceremony, of course, everyone expresses a fool in their own way, joy, and, of course, the most famous such. it can be said that part of this ceremony is the arabic one, which, as we know , the convergence of the holy fire never occurs. anyway.

we see them so emotional. an emotional entrance, when they hold crosses, wave bunches of candles on armbands in special t-shirts, they loudly shout that our lord jesus christ is the true god , completely, of course, unusually incomprehensible for our calmer moderate mentality, but nonetheless. this is also part that ritual, without which the ascent. there is no fire. well, in general, russian pilgrims. they were always surprised when they participated in the flying of the holy fire when they saw it. e, these are, and the prayers of the arab e, orthodox e

people and e. yes, we know, now we already know that they sing, that they are the most eastern most orthodox, that they live where the sun goes down, that they bring candles with them to kindle the holy fire, do not pray to the mother of god george the victorious, who is very respected in the east, ah, but uh, at the same time, well, it often happened quite often that e russian pilgrims were somewhat from a height. watched uh at these dances, forgetting about the dances of david excuse me in front of the ark, but you know here i would also like to recall the words of father antonin uh, archimandrite antonin kapustin, head of the russian spiritual mission in jerusalem, one of the most famous, who once then he said that russian

pilgrims need to get used to seeing e in the middle east e other, believing other christians who are not like us in anything, except for one image of a human name such a christian. this is a very, uh, beautiful perception, it seems to me, well, this is evidence that u christians around the world in their own way, each glorifying the lord is not at all easy to do. there are a lot of orthodox arabs in the east. and the arab youth is precisely the representatives who keep the orthodox faith. about them, too , was one of the videos of past broadcasts. now we are hearing, uh, the chimes of the bell, and this is usually

a foreshadowing of the entrance of the patriarch of the fiophiles. well, for now , they continue to show us as pilgrims. with what a joy they are, having passed several cordons, they get to the square and enter the temple. as a rule, the patriarcheophile who networked, e, goes beyond the temple, james the brother of the lord where is the jerusalem patriarchy, e, and where does the procession to the church of the resurrection of the lord actually begin, this temple is a parish, just for the orthodox arabs of jerusalem and good friday from it , e, a very touching e, the procession and e the patriarch of ethiopia, leaving the greek

patriarchy, passes by his home church of constantine helena, descends stairs and uh, goes to the square in front of the temple. well until the patriarchs' bells are ringing. we don't have one yet. we know that there were no disciples left at the cross of the lord, but the women of his mother of the mother of god and some others remained, among whom was mary magdalene yes and here is one of the wives whose myrrh-bearers were addressed, e words of an angel, that you are looking for the living among the dead he is not. here he was resurrected just mary magdalene let's see the prepared plot. lake of galilee is one

of the iconic places of biblical writing here jesus christ called the first disciples preached, laid the foundation for miracles from the signs of close faith at the foot of mount arbel , the russian compound is located, named after the holy equal to the apostle mary magdalene in the courtyard of the magdalene - this is generally our pride, it is located next to the ancient makdala. and in general, archaeological excavations that carried out everything around our farmstead and on our territory say that this place was inhabited as early as 3,500 years bc, it is always interesting to observe their reaction. everybody come start admire. i was impressed just by being here in general, the power of prayer, as if the metochion itself was

acquired by archimandrite leonid sentsov in 1909. the choice of place when buying the land was not by chance the ancient city of magdala - this is the birthplace of equal-to-the-apostles mary magdalene. and the place where this compound is located, according to legend, is associated with an episode of the healing of mary magdalene, when the lord knew all the unclean spirits from her in the sixties of the xx century , a small church dedicated to herself was built in the compound. equal to the apostolic and trembling myrrh-bearing wife. messengers. on sunday of mary magdalene, it is painted with frescoes by the famous icon painter. yaroslav dobryanin on the territory there are several sources, three of them are fresh , the rest are mineral some of them are radon in these sources. you can swim. an ancient tradition calls one of the sources the source of mary magdalene bathing, it is revered as healing among, and the healing eye

source is also revered in the year. the courtyard is visited by about 6-7 thousand people for their accommodation not far from the cloisters have a hotel that belongs to the russian spiritual mission and is ready to receive visitors. the building itself is of historical value, it was built by the crusaders in the xii century. today. the backyard is a big farm. the farmstead lives like a monastery, there is an older sister who is responsible for the life of this farmstead, sisters who carry out prayer deeds and , of course, we try to have volunteers from russia and belarus come to help them . and, generally speaking, russian speakers from all over the world . , orthodox believers who want work hard. the courtyard gladly accepts those who wish to help the monastery with their work. well, personally, i get up at 5:30 at 6:00. i'm already leaving for obedience. the day begins with the fact that we go to milk the scythes. we have goats that are very

beautiful with long ears. who has what obedience someone sweeps the main staircase. it could be cleanup. it could be bush cutting and guys mowing, spectrum is a big grass, that is , he did something in the garden, and the workers themselves took part in some construction work. they say that although the days in the compound are dedicated physical labor and sometimes heavy grace, filling the soul betrays strength. here the holy land is felt brighter, as if descended from the pages of the gospel, i walk here and smile all the time, because, well, as it were, of course, you just walk and somehow very calmly, despite the fact that we all get tired in the evening. sometimes it even happens that you just want to crawl to the bed to go to bed and that's it. but it's

nice, fatigue here is a feeling of peace and joy from the fact that you're just sweeping the foliage. that's while there was a plot we see how the most patriarcheophile goes to the square in front of the church of the resurrection. lord, we now see him on the screen. yes, the patriarchal cross was carried ahead of him. ah, the helmet. hmm, hieromonks, monks, archimandrites, members of the holy sepulcher brotherhood. and this is, apparently, the most e most. significant pilgrims from greece or some other countries, the patriarch also enters

the temple, uh, and passes by the anointing stone, uh, passes into the tilecon for re-clothes. he must have full possession of hope during the ceremony of the holy fire, that is, the service that will now be it happens in a sense, it is a continuation of the liturgical worship. although, of course, it is not part of the liturgy, nevertheless, the patriarch dresses in full, as during the service. and we will see, i understand that he will change clothes in white clothes, yes , because today is holy saturday in all the churches where the service of great saturday was celebrated. we celebrated the liturgy of basil

the great and the change of clothes from black to white was just taking place. precisely, this white liturgical act will now be on patriarch of philosophy. now we see how he goes to the temple and goes to the greek part for the most part, where the orthodox greek liturgy proper is celebrated and he must be approached under the blessing of the representatives of the confessions who participate in the ceremony. and sometimes it happened that the patriarch had to wait when, uh , representatives of different faiths came to him, uh, and uh, not always not always. it was fast just like here, uh, the pilgrims are now uh, they are waiting, they are waiting for the start of the procession, the kavass reached the ukli, and uh, they are trying

, uh, somehow, to expand the space in order to uh, the procession of the cross, which will bypass the cry three times, so that it would still be convenient to come and there would be no big problems. it must also be said that the action that we are now seeing, it is special. e, already established throughout. not just centuries of many centuries, 'cause a tom e went down. e, the holy light fire testified from the earliest times, the most diverse and pilgrims are not only orthodox, but also catholic and muslim. uh, witnesses who confirmed that we ate the light on the tomb of the lord. one of the earliest and first

such testimonies is the testimony of church history, the memory of strength according to his story, when one day you lacked one oil patriarch. it was the marquis who blessed the presence of the lampada and the waters of the selamite empire and the fire that descended from heaven that burns. the tomb of the lord that there was a hot lamp on the tomb of the lord was evidenced by the roman pilgrim and the gegeria of the same time of the 4th century, when she speaks of this, that is, for more than one and a half thousand years. e, there is evidence that e light e on the tomb of the lord on blessed saturday appeared in a special way. well, today we quite often, just like in our previous

broadcasts, talk about the first russian pilgrims who recorded as he attended the origin of the blessed. fire was the abbot. daniel in 1100 the seventh year. he his pilgrimage then lasted 3 years and it was understandable because the way e from the borders of russia to e, palestine was. eh, very, very difficult. and even more so, uh, there were wars and uh, he had to overcome a lot in the holy land. out of those three years. he spent only half a year practically winter and, uh, returned. hmm, he returned to russia almost immediately after. well, note that there are many pilgrims. right now we see many male pilgrims. in general, the face

of a russian pilgrim pilgrim is still a woman's face, uh, hmm, just like in the 19th century. just like in the last 20 years, after all , hmm, pilgrimage groups are 80 percent, but they consist of women, uh, a prayer for this country , for peace, for russia, for a family, for children. and they were probably very good. the pilgrim daniel a left a hot lamp on the group of the lord, again there are traditions that there is a lamp there, which we will soon see, which will be installed, like, lord , it’s just the one that he put here for the first time. you know modern uh historians

came to the conclusion that, uh, the love and respect that the abbot before her, uh, received in jerusalem and hmm from the king of jerusalem balduin the first, he was also connected with the fact that not long before him , uh, gi, pre-goraldovna died in jerusalem. the first russian noble hmm pilgrimage, who, uh, came from novgorod, came, uh, arrived with great difficulty through constantinople to jerusalem and died uh in jerusalem and in fact was such a, uh participant and uh the first e crusade, and uh, so how do you compare the facts and surprisingly, after a few years after the death before the gorald, i was very kindly, e.g., daniel, e.,

was received by the king of jerusalem. a well , just like uh, after only 60 years. efrosinya polotskaya arrived in the holy land hmm completely. uh, wonderful uh, a saint who is very especially revered uh in belarus although she is called the mother of female monasticism in russia and by her order, hmm was made on the throne cross, in which u were u, unique relics. but hmm well, this is a fragment of the cross, the crystal stone of christ from the tomb of the mother of god but to unfortunately, this cross was lost during the great patriotic war and, so far, has not yet been found. and she also

died in jerusalem in a russian convent. unfortunately, historians, while e , cannot understand what kind of russian convent it was, but i hope that further study will somehow reveal to us the secret of where it was located and who founded it. and, of course, we're going back to wokley, we want to say that this is the only uh, chapel that has that name in the world, because uh, here, uh, the royal bed where our lord jesus christ rested e. this is a special er, a place of special holy kings, the king of kings, the lord of lords was buried. eh, here and here he rose the firstborn from the dead. and here

is the internal structure. e grok is a carved rock, uh, a cave, which, uh, was the very due saviors, as we said, in front of it was the limit of angels, that is, the place where the angel appeared to make peace precisely, to those first u women who came in order to to anoint the body of the savior they are visible. no end knew that the lord would rise on the third day. although he spoke about this during his earthly life, and it was here that his stone was rolled away, now we see how the seal is being removed, just the sign of how this happened in the limit of the angel. actually, the service is being performed now, and the patriarch and the office will enter the tomb of the lord in order to receive the holy fire.

well, by the way, in some russian churches, we see how this seal is being handed out now. uh, designed like a urea. e, in. how is this eh? you can buy it and it will be your kind of it in memory of the holy land. and here it is. hmm. here is the clothes of the jerusalem church, and when our, er, priests come to the holy land, they usually serve, uh, in such clothes. well, here, you see, beautiful cavities that are waiting and wispy. candles yes, we saw. right now , the priests of the archimandrites, there should be 12 of them in number. e of the apostles, they are dressed yes in clothes that are clothes of greek cut, the so-called greek vot filoni, which are traditionally russian

orthodox priests do not wear e, well, or wear some special occasions, but they are clearly preparing for the beginning of the procession. in 2020, and in the times of qaida, we could watch the patriarch dress, and we understood what was happening. and now we are forced only to wait and uh and not see then we were then we were sad that there were no ee believers in the temple. and today we are experiencing what is happening. now everyone is waiting for the empada and is already preparing to open the gates of the ultimate angela will be. ah, every year this lamp from e,

brings the altar of temple resurrection to the kuvuklyuyu. uh, senior with kyophylax. uh, speaking in russian, carve the tsvetogruppa church, and today it is the archbishop of hieropol cider, uh, who is very well known, uh, by many russian pilgrims, he treats pilgrims from russia with uh, warmth and love. but while we wait, while we wait, while until the lamp has been brought to their coffin, the player remains closed. the peace-bearers who were, uh, at the tomb, they were obviously at a loss. they did not know when they saw the resurrected. christ

they didn't know who it was. i might have thought it might have been the gardener who carried away the body of their beloved teacher. for them, being in front of the holy sepulcher was such an expectation associated with uncertainty, as if on the verge between them, faith and bewilderment about what could happen, some kind of mystery happened behind the closed gates of the holy sepulcher. they did not know who could roll away the stone for them, because it was very heavy, the stone on which the divine liturgy is performed. and now there is a stone that marks the stone that was rolled away from the grave. and the peace-bearers, being in front of the tomb, as well as many pilgrims. they, uh, were apparently in some kind of expectation of the miracle that could uh happen here. but the miracle on sunday saviors is the main sacrament that changes the world, because

we know that on the sunday of christ it gives the forgiveness of sins, it gives a person a new life and the resurrection of christ is the main event that leads us to eternal life. now we will turn to sergey pashkov in order to understand what is happening now next to kuvukley. what is the atmosphere there now ? how is the waiting for the patriarch to go to the procession of the cross, good afternoon sergey hello this really many hours of waiting has come to its culmination. we see how the bright red crimson festive banners of time appeared, with which the patriarchs in the process will go around three times to the cry at the head of the position of the patriarch of jerusalem today, there the third and only after that the sealed

holy of holies of the lord's tomb will be opened and the primate of the greek the orthodox church of jerusalem , followed by the cleric of the armenian evangelical church of the apostolic church, and they will close from the inside , prayer will begin with the lamps extinguished, and thousands of people who have gathered today under the vaults of the temple will repeat the jesus prayer. lord jesus christ, have mercy on us, because as you, remember, you will believe the athos elders if the mambrist spirit dries up, if goodness does not descend in jerusalem. fire on great saturday, it will come, the end of the world. this belief gives a special thrill and a special sharp emotions to the moment of expectation, for which tens of thousands of peasants have come here to jerusalem. all over the world orthodox christians from greece from russia from georgia from belarus and many

many other countries, russian speech is evil. today it is quite clear, and here is the foundation of st. andrew the first-called , which will receive an icon lamp with the holy fire and the chairman of the foundation. vladimir yakunin will go with him to moscow, this fire will shine already at the patriarchal service in the church of the sepulchers in the temple. christ the savior carried out the lampada , responsibility begins and most, probably, the mysterious part of the ceremony is now the lamp will be placed on the coffin. then the doors. eh? the chapel of the coffin will close again and

the procession of the cross will begin. on darkness. we will soon see. this is in our broadcast for the organization, to which we again thank both channel one and channel russia 1 and ntv thank you sergey thank you very much. we now have the opportunity to see the e -lampada already in close-up; it is, one might say, the key special tool in the ceremony that is now taking place. it is this lampada that will be the holy fire on the tomb of the lord. we are waiting for the start of the procession, we saw that harun wine-bearers with 12 banners have already lined up in the cafe-lycon, and as soon as the procession begins, in fact, the main thing is

part of today's elitonia. and i think that m-m prayerful mood and uh, the power of prayer, both in the temple and uh, v. e monasteries. uh, the holy land and russia and it will increase in order for hmm and the lord to show his will. flying away is also one of the names. e of those prayers that are performed by, well, the western tradition, like our shadows. actually, what they are, that is , flying, just like a special prayer that the whole church offers up after the clergy, the yacons, the priests , the lampada. nobody on google. e, except for the lax inside

e did not enter, he will now put the lamp on three days' bed and will come out. and we are waiting for the patriarch to come out for that procession, which in all our churches has already taken place last night or even at night, when the shroud with the image was carried around three times. eh, lord, but this procession will already be from the banner. on the sunday of christ, because those prayers will be sung, which we will perform tonight already in the second chair , praying really not quite, familiar to us with a greek cut. which in fact will already be announced the upcoming easter in jerusalem from the birth

of the holy fire is perceived already. actually, as the accomplished easter, everyone immediately begins to congratulate each other. with the resurrection of christ and uh, russian pilgrims, when they came for them at the beginning it was uh. surprisingly, but then they fell under uh, this uh, all the general euphoria. eh, the feast of the descent of the holy fire and uh, very often uh, they forgot that the easter service. we are yet to come. here we see the members of our e delegation of the delegation of the st. andrew the first-called e, in anticipation of the start procession, for which we are now, everything is still being prepared.

we have not yet mentioned the monks of the svoitov, who are also obligatory participants in the ceremony and the descent of the blessed fire , these are the monks from the lavra of st. by the way, abbot daniel also wrote, that is, from ancient times - this tradition existed. now i'm zamkly in awe of this time when really. all believers in the kuvukli are trying to focus on prayer, being aware of the special event that happened at this place, which awaits us . we can already say tonight if we

are talking about an astronomical day, but already on the tomb of the lord, and easter in a sense begins earlier, because the descent of the holy fire is already a sign , a symbol of the fact that the resurrection of christ is a fait accompli. now we see a tile. he's where he started from and that's about to be. please note that the doors on the left there are two representatives of the armenian church on the side and two representatives of the orthodox church on the right, and they even have them change, the total number and the way they stand. this is also completely unchanged and is included in the same one. while we are waiting for the beginning

of the procession of the cross, the procession of the cross is not yet possible. uh, it didn't start, the coffin was sealed, again covered with tape. i would like to recall one more thing about what, mm, in june. e this year marks 140 years. e the opening of the threshold of judgment frags, these gates were found as a result of excavations by archimandrite antonym, uh, and uh, these gates were called ships, because near them the roman official read out the final verdicts, condemned and, er, it was possible to remove the procession for the last time. when, suddenly, there was someone who would declare that he had

new facts demanding that they could help stop the execution, and on that only day in history when christ crossed the vice of judgment frates voluntarily, taking upon himself sins of all mankind , there was no one in jerusalem who wanted or dared to say a word in favor of not see the condemned. and here we see the dome with you. ah, the dome of the ratunda. uh, she hmm not so long ago only with in this visible we only know from 1997, and when the inner surface, uh, received the golden star and was decorated in the form of triple glory, 12 large petals, 24. small sharp rays, as if superimposed on the lower great glory and above them a short

cylinder of drums, painted with golden stars and an eye through which light passes. ah, russian pilgrims, when they described, uh , the convergence of the blessed fire hmm uh e, the silence that was established in the church, and e, before e, the beginning of the procession, and especially at the moment when the patriarch e entered to perform his prayer, were always noted with invariance. and judging by the faces that we see now. eh, this is the most tormenting thing, but the expectation and some kind of even some kind of confusion , it seems to me, like, look to you, it seems to me, it seems to me, exactly the same confusion that the dying man had. those who found the entire tomb of the savior, those who from the disciples, according to the words

of the peace-bearer, ran to the tomb and saw him empty. for them. this was incredible too. many of the disciples did not believe in the sundays of christ, despite the testimonies left to them by the peace-bearers and peter the beloved disciple. e, the savior only when the lord himself appeared to the disciples, when they secretly gathered in fear from the jews, only then, they already believed that they were not seeing a ghost, but a living god and a man who had risen in the flesh, who was in front of them could eat and drink, thus confirming that he was resurrected in real flesh, only after that their faith strengthened only after that they will already begin their preaching around the world after the apparitions. christ after his ascension and after the lord leaves them this special commandment to preach the word of god and baptize

the whole world in the name of father and son and holy spirit. by the way, this year, on the feast of the intercession, it will be 135 years since the consecration of the church of mary magdalene in gethsemane about the poor church built by the imperial family in memory of empress maria alexandrovna , who worked very hard for russian palestine as a heavenly patron, who, like once there was equal-to-the-apostles mary magdalene , one of the myrrh-bearing women. well, there lies the relics, especially revered, er, the venerable martyr of the great book, elizabeth feodorovna, who worked very hard in the holy land, thanks to which, er, a lot was done by the imperial palestinian society. and who accepted a martyr's death in russia and in a special way her e, the remains of the body were transferred here as well. although, of course, she

did not initially assume this. well, in general , the palestinian society this year, uh, a lot of hmm anniversaries, and these are such anniversaries related to people who are people who uh worked in uh, the holy land, and worked either personally came to help, or uh, worked. uh, thanks to, hmm, to those, uh, with the buildings that were built here, i would like to remember, uh, about maria mikhailovna kiseleva - this absolutely wonderful philanthropist from penza will celebrate 225 years this year, uh, from the date of her birth, but amazing that her charity covered both russia , the holy land and athos and the island of crete, and

she worked much in the balkans mesopotamia but of course, in the most significant gift of maria mikhailovna to the holy land was the church of the savior on the mountain, overthrown at dawn. and uh, it was n't built for a russian spiritual mission. not for russia, not for the synod, it was built for those very poor orthodox, uh, arabs who lived there and, uh, russian pilgrims always came to this temple, when they came to nazareth for the annunciation, they always visited it, but with uh -e maria mikhailovna kiseleva e, one more is connected. uh, temple, this is a greek church, uh, holy prophet elisha in e. jericho. in general, she remained e in

history with her largest donations, and more than 100,000 rubles. poor orthodox in bulgaria and greece palestine 50.000 russian spiritual mission. here we see the patriarch blessing the procession begins but in general, uh, returning to marina mikhailovna uh, we can say that the scale of her charity to the holy land is unique and uh, has no analogues at all, since she spent her uh, personal funds and uh, honestly speaking, the volume of her financial blessings he e exceeds e, charity of the imperial family and uh, i know that in retirement she is very uh, revered ah. i hope that someday e maria mikhailovna will be numbered in the century of saints,

because her prayer. uh, reverence in penza is very, very far away. it is amazing how many russian orthodox pilgrims ended up in the holy land and in past times and now many people flock here, in order to go out for special moments to turn to god with prayer, because here is the procession that is now beginning. he has a lot of banners over himself, beginning. eh, even the path that the royal path that the lord began last sunday, which we call two weeks and right, sunday, when jerusalem greeted him as a king, as a liberator from the hated risk, pastil branches, palm trees, according to our tradition that