and a representative of the armenian church enters. now we see the patriarch coming out. by her now it will be performed already on easter night, and now the procession begins, when all the priests of the clinic begin to sing, the hymns that we will also sing at night, your sunday christ save him. naturally, according to the greek section of the greek patriarchate, of course, it takes place in greek. and it is always surprising for pilgrims that they need to be included in another language, of course, but very ours, uh, everyone sings in russian language and the gospel after the greek gospel in

greek is read and in russian they treat greek with such respect. so they have already begun to sing such amazing singing, preserved since ancient times, preserved in the greek church on athos and, of course, everyone remembers the latest the events with which the convergence to roll his fire is actually connected, when the josephite came and asked the body of the savior to be killed, having learned that the savior had already died on the cross and ordered to give the body, which joseph

nicodemus. they were members of the trion family, secret disciples of the savior they took. he was buried in one of the new slaves. carved in the rock just at this place and brought special aromas to the shroud, which will be kept with reverence and passed on by generations of christians from who will come down to this day wrapped around this shroud. they are on a stone, anointed, and with this cause they covered the body of the savior, and then strengthening it in this, unroll the carved rock and on them the image of the saints. carry them in 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 in orthodox churches, as we have already said, it can also be sad processions associated with burial in the thickness of the same procession we perform when we perceive the assumption of the mother of god, but many processions of the cross are and the triumph of orthodoxy are not a symbol, we will already make such a procession of joy tonight and everything in the coming week, when in all our churches there is necessarily a divine the audience will end with the finding of temples, holy water with the blessing of the cross of all those who pray so that this celebration will be performed. a whole week will last in this way not a single day. and they sing chants. prayer

and by the vestments we see such a golden headdress, just the patriarch, we can follow him and the solemn silver staff in his hand. who will crown his head, we can just find out that in front of us is the patriarch, he is walking and praying. you see that the priests of their friends recognize their children, welcomes here very simply. you can just approach the patriarch and be blessed to be photographed even together. and now, at this solemn moment, of course, no one dares to ask the patriarch about anything. everyone is

watching in prayerful anticipation. how the procession goes, a certain number of priests are also regulated in a certain way. yes, and uh, the greek military is here, we can see them by their garb. that is, here is some kind of chosen guest of the patriarch circle, an elected circle that, together with the servants, will bypass the thunder. godfather move, ahead are kavas, and we hear how they beat me 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. here it is with two peaks in the form

of such snakes that guard this way it is still on this way of the cross e savior in a certain sense, which, as we know, are also present in that city in jerusalem where it actually ends, so the procession for us is a symbol of both the death and resurrection of the savior catherine is in the left corner. this is the abbess of gornev of the russian monastery. eh, mother of our mothers is always traditionally present at the procession and has always attended every convergence of fire, mother. georgy shchukin, abbess of the mountain monastery, who died this year, he is concentrated. he has completely withdrawn into himself,

praying, praying to the lord for the descent of the blessed fire to happen again this year. he is dressed in precious clothes, as befits the jerusalem patriarch. and the prayer must be, of course 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 a tradition for the church, as the savior himself commanded in order 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 at times like these, when everyone has something to ask for. at us a lot of different insults problem difficulties. the lord often sends them to us precisely so that we remember god more often so that we can live our lives. and it was compared with eternity, namely 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, be silent, arrive in such silence and loneliness, but it happens, sometimes it is very spiritually useful and gives us understanding a

lot of what surrounds us and happens within ourselves that people are very united by common prayers. in a general state of waiting for the grace of the holy light. it can be seen that everyone has somehow withdrawn into himself, concentrated, and, uh, the soul is waiting for this light. sometimes flashes are visible, which are not always visible on our screen here. and when you stand there, you see these flashes. and even the smell of the zone is and you know such as such flashes of lightning. here they are visible to those who are now standing on the like, the lord is inside. our time is very lacking for people precisely sincere faith, namely kindness, which

they hold this world, which is very often filled with self-interest, malice, those evil deeds, and whose parents are satan, that's overcoming 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 strives, it very often becomes stale. he very often loses the most important thing and at the same time, retaining outwardly human appearance. he often loses his inner, therefore, this is the ability and desire of a sincere person to repent of his sins to turn to god it is very important in our purely rational rational world, when we evaluate everything exclusively from pragmatic positions, namely faith as the apostle says, this is confidence in the

invisible. this is the expectation that our hope will come true and is. uh, precisely those, inspiring and main, what keeps human life and the world as a whole. every person involved in the miracle and waiting for the outflow of fire, he is in this state. for the sake of this experience, people just aspire to jerusalem and the tomb of the lord. and exactly. eh, here is the moment of the blessed saturday, when the lord is on the sabbath and shows us that hell did not swallow him up and let us remember the words of our famous prayer. where is ada your sting? where the hell is your victory, the beautiful word of jan's styles for the fact that

tonight we will listen in all temples of this word and a prayer addressed to all who fasted and did not fast, who prepared and did not prepare, on which the grace of god descends e, when people really rush to the head pray for the descent of this grace, and all this is very feel, here in the temple, indeed. such a state. as in the one soul all gathered. 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, something you know is going on. grace, which is there all the time

and is now felt especially strongly by everyone. on great saturday because when the lord was in the tomb, uh, his disciples, those who followed christ not only abandoned the savior, but they very confused. they showed. uh, such a bewildered doubt that put them on the verge of some kind of internal collapse turns out. so that's it. what the savior taught, but it turned out that with his death it was over for them, it did not last long. this state lasted, but it was also a certain test, and spiritual for the apostles for all who loved christ, because this love was still preserved. despite this, obviously, there was a soul that was shown by the disciples, despite these

fears that seized them due to the fact that anger. despite all this, it's still a great saturday. this is a state of special peace, when there is a gradual assurance on sunday, when this is the expectation, and the new thing that 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 with the world wishing to create a stone from the tomb as a savior, this stone is now located just at the entrance of the deepest angel, they still believed and knew that something was about to happen. let them still not be able to finish manifest this faith but love of god she drew them to the group. they still understood that a life is a

savior. it has not yet ended, that the earthly days are over the lord of his stay on earth and the new life begins the evangelical covenant let us remember how the great saint georgia david of garridge, approaching the gates of the holy fence of jerusalem, did not dare to enter the city and took the symbol of jerusalem, the symbol of the holy sepulcher kamushkin. and not daring to enter with these pebbles, he went further, reached georgia, but the vision was the patriarch of jerusalem that all the grace of jerusalem had 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 carried it away. it was david

of garij, er, 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 were torn in two, the earth shook. uh, many came out of the coffins. saints preached. you are jerusalem as reported us evangelists, again, it is difficult for us to believe in such special miraculous signs that were associated with the earthly saviors ran out, but it is obvious that this is the feeling. e earthly catastrophes associated with the triumph of external sin. it was among the people who were at the cross were at the grave. our holy church marks the holy great one to enter, but some power did not let her into the tomb

. lord but she did not see this power, who does not let her in, she cannot enter there. and that's just when she repented. she was very remorseful and i decided to completely change my life at that moment. she was able to cross the threshold. she entered the tomb of the lord, and even in the good-halls of the old icon of the mother of god and spoke to her, this icon is still kept here in the right limit in the church. eh, the forty martyrs of sebastia and there is also a small russian image, where the e egyptian seas are 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

she learned to pray, and when she remembered her sins and her old sinful life, she simply rushed at sand. or the sting could lie down all day, and then get up and pray again. and during great lent, we several times remember mary of egypt , and even we have the state of mary of egypt for a week, how high, er, the church. uh, well, appreciated her chasing. this is the only saint who, hmm , is devoted to a whole reading of the 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. it might not even be a terrible sinner, if he compares himself with life, but the reverend mary, but she was able

to give a lot to her life. and this means that every person who repents of those sins that he has, he can definitely achieve something, and therefore the reverend will be like that, especially almost. what will the whole weeks of great lent be dedicated to in the temple, and the group of the lord, which is a huge complex, uh, connected with special places on earth once, when the jewish police service was going on, they approached to the servants of the greeks and they 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. uh, uh, an icon, then a lot of candles were put in it, it was a little bit . they would have the icon been issued by, uh, a nun. uh,

it is located what kind of mercury phenomenon in kiev on the eve of the russian japanese war and so on. uh, 10,000 jan. uh, monks and pilgrims, uh, brought in heels. they ordered this wonderful icon from the artist, which appeared to the sailor to the sevastopol prayer that port arthur would not fall, the mother of god said that there would be a terrible war. you will win here, uh, so write how i stand, and she stood in the iconography, uh veronica and held the holy plan, which is not made by hands, which is associated with the latter, when the lord, our cross is with me with a chair. and then the women wore such a big

scarf, huge on their heads. veronica saw that some man, all wounded and with bruises, was carrying the godparents of my house. she took off this board, gave it to him interestingly, handed it to her. she turned around and saw the face of god of that person there. she realized that this was the prophet. she unfolded for a fee from the whole crowd began to show everyone that you are carrying this cross. this is a great man, look reflected on my dress, and this is how this icon of veronica's dresses appeared. the appearance of the mother of god in jerusalem on a passionate path in this antique store was like in veronica's econography amazing for the second time, then uh, i must say that u russian generals didn't understand. uh, the blessing of the mother of god, to port arthur

take there to place this icon. they didn't . that's how she appeared for the second time. and mother george now found e and bought and transferred to vladivostok the icon of the port of arthur defending the warriors who appeared in jerusalem. uh, the russian army, it's in vladivostok now. well, in the russian church. we honor so many icons of vladimir kazan or my sorrows, which were also such difficult moments in our history and life and the mother of god for good reason. we turn first after the savior because we know that through her prayers, miracles can be performed through her prayers. we can find, especially comfort, which we often lack in minutes. sorrow the despondency of some moods, because the mother of god, who stood before christ, who obviously participated in the burial of the savior. she

experienced some unreal torments of the flow, which were predicted by a rich seed, when she brought the divine baby to the temple. he said that a weapon would go through your soul, that is, you will, uh, 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 icons, turning to her every minute. sorrow. this is necessary, because it is the mother of god who helps us a lot to remember. eh, the help of the tikhvin mother of god, who came. uh, under petersburg to the swamp and beyond byzantium, remember, it was an amazing case, uh, there was no

petersburg yet but the tikhvin icon, uh, before the end byzantium from the greeks moved to russia shone in the swamp, the names were in tikhvin and the name it became quiet. the icon began to defend russia and we know the story that until recently it was in the tikhvin monastery, and then it was lost and they saved it. , who, together with the german army, withdrew to europe, the icon was saved, then transported to america and father promised that if the icon would be saved by his family, and she was preserved

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 undressing ; they cowardly look around so that there are no lighters, no matches, and he so humbly, undressed in one lower vestment , comes in and behind him we see a representative of the armenian church, who also comes in with bundles, but he remains within the limit of the angel. there's just

this bowl right there, uh, with a stone on which an angel sat, and he 'll pass on the lit fire. through a special window on the other side, it will transmit if the fire of the patriarch of jerusalem descends. and from the south there will already be representatives of armenia, so 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, especially. he prays for the ascent of the blessed fire for the whole earth, and now in these moments he becomes 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 also kneels in trigels and also begs the lord to repent for us all for our sins. sometimes the fire often descends, judging by the screams, something is already happening, sometimes the fire quickly descends, maybe it happened now. or maybe it's just flashes. yes people expect great tension, let us pray for peace. let us pray for peace, lord, save our land, tense land, and remember you. now we saw these flashes. they were on screen. we are waiting for the convergence of

the holy fire on both sides of the ghoul, these are the windows that we said, now the holy fire should appear there. the people are quiet now, we are waiting for the very main event that transforms the christian life, because the holy fire is for us a symbol of the resurrection. it is the resurrection that makes sense human life on sunday gives us eternal life, and we know that a person who has found in his heart. christ, he is sure to join this eternal life a person who tries to repent of his sins, who do not just

pray to god, but strive to keep the commandments of christ's people to god and neighbor, he is necessarily transformed internally. this is the resurrection of the kingdom of heaven. it can begin already here in earthly life.