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good afternoon, dear viewers, we are presenting a live television broadcast of the annual ceremony of the convergence of the holy fire , today we are presenters with you rita borisovna butova ph.d. andrey pasternak hello hello in addition , the temple is a russian journalist, sergey pashkov with whom we will get in touch later. we are now in the most important place of today and blessed saturday - this is the church of the holy sepulcher, the church of the resurrection. lord, we now see its inner space a huge dome, under which is located in the corner the place where it happened on sunday, which is christ's to remember and celebrate tomorrow, whether the club was built almost immediately after sunday happened, christ's it was rebuilt many times. and now

what we see is cups of the 19th century before whether there are lamps hanging in the cup, which signify with them those denominations that are present here, since in the temple, the temple is divided between several christian denominations, which, according to a clear schedule , perform worship here and who will participate in the current ceremony of the convergence of the holy fire. well, by the way, you see now e entrance and e traditionally in accordance with the status quo, ah, the lamps, here are only catholic ones in the center, orthodox ones and at the very bottom. eh, armenian, well here's a surprise now. uh, we don't we see armenian lamps, but, apparently, this is the decision of the armenian church itself. uh, before the repair of the dome in 2016-17, these lamps.

there were already gradually gathering people here this year, a single certain restriction of the order of 2,000 people should be allowed into the temple, but obviously here, probably much more people will gather. everything is gradually going we saw in the process of ambulances. uh, people from different countries are going to bow to the tomb of the lord, the russian delegation, which came, uh, one of the first represent, we are just seeing it now. this is some lead to the fact that she was, before we see, just with the green armbands of our representatives and at the head of our delegation

, viktor ivanovich, 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 that 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 pray here. and now we we just see how this tradition continues in the person of our pilgrims, the delegation that approaches the most traditionally located on the right has been for many centuries pilgrims entering the church of the resurrection of the lord through this only entrance and can immediately venerate me. now we see pilgrims standing with you again. icon lamps that represent the denominations

located in the temple, but actually only four will participate in the current ceremony. they are these six, among which the representatives of the jerusalem patriarchate are divided armenian church, syrian church. well, you see, despite the restrictive measures of the 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 we see, they do not wave flags and shout prayers loudly. well, in what sense is this also part of the ritual that is performed here? notice that while one of the pilgrims is sitting even on the roof

of the head chapel. and this is what they show us which today, out of nineteen bells, eight bells, uh, are made in russia, including one of the most important bells that we always hear when the patriarch comes to you, it was specially cast in moscow in 1886 and we also see the colonnades, which are decorated with sacrificial lamps also with the blessing of the imperial family of alexander ii and empress maria alexandrovna, by the way, these lamps are 100 and e and the drawing was approved by the patriarch of jerusalem. uh, and uh. these table lamps were made in st. petersburg and cost that's all eight and a half thousand rubles. by the

way, yes. you see, again we are shown a cry 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. hello, dear leading father andrei rita borisovna, we are now in the church of the holy sepulcher directly next to the holy of holies chapel, the tomb, the goblet, is it noisy and loud here, because a few minutes ago in the temple on on each other's shoulders, a crowd of arab orthodox youth rushed in, 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 cubukli, which is now sealed with yellow wax, and where the patriarch falls farther away for us. e theophiles, when he goes there, all this crowd outside will make our prayer , uh, prayer to jesus lord jesus christ have mercy on me a sinner. i am near the club. there is among the pilgrims from russia this is the foundation of st. andrew the first-called, which has already been to the holy land 21 times in order to take a little illuminated tombstone with them to moscow in a lamp. lord

blessed. fire is fire met at the airport. it is transported to russian provinces. and the metropolitan church, and it will shine today at the patriarchal service in the temple. christ the savior in moscow, there are relatively few pilgrims under the vaults of the church of the sepulcher. it's about a deeply dense noisy crowd, but in the temple the coffin admitted about 3,000 orthodox people from all over the christian world, most of the same people who arrived here. they were passed in procession. pulled up grew up from 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 at the java gates and soon, probably in an hour, the fiery river, splashing into the temple , will come out on the streets of jerusalem under the blessings and this fire will be distributed from lamp to lamp

from a candle in a candle, people will thank each other. congratulate greeting me waiting for midnight with the words christ is risen. well, now the youth, uh, orthodox muslim. forgive the orthodox arab youth under the vaults of the temple continues to rattle the drums continues to exclaim our faith is right orthodox faith. and by the way, speaking during the british mandate for more than 60 years. it must have been more than 80 years ago that they tried to lower themselves to enter the temple, they believe that it is not too decent for such a great day for tree, then the holy fire did not descend until young, believing people were given the opportunity to shout out and say everything they wanted and wanted to shout and say at that moment, as soon as it makes noise, the orthodox

arab youth church will plunge into darkness and we with reverence and there we will wait for the patriarch in the process, which will end with the descent of illumination on the tomb of the blessed fire. thank you very much, dear sergey so we welcome our delegation headed by vladimir ivanovich yakunin, we bring apologies. we were worried and at first misrepresented our delegation, but now we are correcting ourselves and want to testify further that this is what is happening now, this is a really special event already in the twenties, in a row. we are broadcasting our delegations from jerusalem from the church of the resurrection of the lord. for over 20 years now. here are present. so this russian presence, in a sense , is also part of the unchanging status that is preserved in this temple

status. well, in general, of course, uh, this is a concept, which hmm the special status of the temple of the resurrection. eh, it was formed in the middle of the 18th century and since then . here for already soon so two. and for centuries he retains this special status and uh, it's completely hmm unique uh phenomenon in history. uh, when the temple, in which, uh, representatives of different denominations pray, was finally able, uh, 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 in the temple itself. and it must be said that this peace was established through the mediation muslim e authorities that 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. we can say the key events. well, this world is still preserved right now on the temple, when repairs are taking place, when they change, uh, like some kind of situation related to the conduct of worship. all this is happening precisely according to a certain agreement between all the confessions that are present here, and now we see it like this. ah, the symbol. e matching throughout the 20th century, and she stood in a tightened metal frame until here in 2016-17 was not. completed its renovation. well, by the way, if you remember, uh, about hmm uh, ratonda, then we can

talk. and about the dome, this is generally such . e, the persians burned his stories, and destroyed hakim e, mad, and destroyed the natural phenomenon, for example, it was destroyed in 1834 as a result. uh earthquakes and uh, the stone vault cracked so much that a little it didn’t fall at all and for 35 years it was absolutely wonderful. eh, the case is the so -called case, but paid off, which ended. and which ended with the project of two emperors, and here we are now, uh, we see, uh, the dome ah, 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 emperor. ah, napoleon iii. this was one of the best phenomena of cooperation between russia and france in the holy land. now we are shown again pilgrims who are already waiting and preparing for the procession, but, but for the time being, before the procession, some time must pass before the jerusalem patriarchosifs appear. uh-huh and now let's see with you what was e early in the morning when a happened. such an 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 already said the keys to the temple of the lord they are stored in one of the uh, important uh and respectable muslim family al-hussein, who 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, and first they knock to receive permission to enter. as we can see , a special staircase is being installed, and the right to open this door belongs to another , also respectable family, who every day open and close the tap accordingly. after this, the key is no longer handed over to the representatives of the armenian apostolic church. well, in general, i would like to talk more about the family. well, seibe. it's very famous in the middle in the east, the clan of sunni muslims, very

revered. only in the 20th century , ministers in several countries and diplomats were its representatives, 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, well, the family came to russia, they were with us in the caucasus and, uh, they really, really liked it. and here is the old nusaib, who are opening from alive, which is opening just now these ancient, and ancient castles, and he repeatedly spoke about his love. to the russians half-lost and to russia and we want to remind you that this is currently the only main entrance since. uh, part of e v rad is walled up and you can get into the temple only in the way that breakdowns are now going through, 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 cry and wait for the entrance to the temple of the patriarch philosopher. patriarch theophilus has a very eastern style, a very long title. his name is his divine blessedness patriarch of the color of hagrad, jerusalem and all palestine a series of arabia just for jordan cannes of galilee and holy zion he has been holding 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 channel one russia 1 ntv for organizing today's television broadcast and of course the fund. pilgrims in anticipation when they enter the temple we see they carry bundles of candles, usually in each bundle of 33 candles according to the number of years of the savior's earthly life, these are the bundles of candles. they keep, when the fire is lit and extinguishes, 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 speakers. now security is provided by the israeli

police. and as a rule, everything goes without excesses, too, like the outside. 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 have a lot in the past broadcasts told that the first e russian pilgrim who described the descent 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. the gurni convent is one of the centers of russian orthodoxy in the holy land. the monastery is located in jerusalem in in the enkar region, after the opening of sea communication from russia to the port of yafa in the 19th century, pilgrims began to come to palestine en masse to visit holy places. one of the most revered 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 not right that the orthodox arabs who lived then as warlocks did not even have their own parish church. that is why archimandrite antonin kapustin was worried about the acquisition. on this site of the plot of land

, father antonin was actively assisted by pavel petrovich melnikov , a member of the state council and the former ways of communication melnikov organized a committee to raise the necessary funds and with this money archimandrite antonin was able to purchase land. he raised funds for several years in russia and was able to uh buy a huge, i would say the largest plot in terms of size. e land, military commissar in 1871. the land was framed. after that, an arab community appeared here, and then a russian community, father antonin proposed an unusual solution for her devices. he wanted our orthodox pilgrims. but basically, it was widows and nuns who could come here to the holy land and buy missions small plots to build their houses, as they wanted

in their own way, each with the condition to build e around the houses of the earth make a garden and ennoble the territory after buying the land 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 of the mother of god a in 2012 the second temple was also consecrated, the cathedral of all saints in the russian land, who shone every year , thousands of pilgrims come here to pray, to tell them 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, a prayer in the holy land, but for russia, for the whole world.

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. uh, live very responsibly. 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 they come to the monastery. we see that joy with such trepidation they enter the holy land. they are so grateful for everything. it even seems to us that there is nothing

to be thankful for. it's usually to feed meet and conduct a tour, but they are all so radiant and grateful and overflowing with such joy, that it is clear 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's mother god's and the saints, but also to everyone who surrounds them, and we also fall into the number of those to whom they are grateful, perhaps even completely undeserved . we return to the temple of the resurrection and involuntarily a comparison comes to the mountain - this is the place, the joy of motherhood, the birth of a baby , the birth of a new soul and kuvulya, which we now see the pre-day death lodges. and here we are quite often

. hmm, we are shown the southern part of the ratunda, which belongs to the armenians today. under the stairs to the gallery is placed here, a marble kevorium on four columns is a place where according to the tradition of the armenian church, the blessed virgin stood 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 entrance to the kuvulu already imprinted with a special wax seal. memories of those events that are connected, of course, with the resurrection. e savior, this week we remembered the special days when the lord, e , stepped on the path of suffering. he rebuked the pharisees for the formalism they had , he rebuked people who were hypocrites and

sincere caller. in the world of the faith of the son of god, this was precisely the main meaning of the sermon that the lord left us throughout his earthly life and in those last days when he was still with his disciples and during the service, starting from the beginning. eh, this week of the week we remembered those parables, those words that the lord last addressed his disciples to his last and actually begins on wednesday. we have already embarked on the path that leads to the current event, as the current place is connected. it was, of course, the last meeting of the savior at the last supper with the disciples, when he left the commandment that all christians must observe, the commandment is associated with the infliction of

christ's holy mysteries and participation in the liturgy. on thursday evening we read, 12. eve connected with the sufferings of the savior with his betrayal by judas with the way he remained alone , abandoned even by his e, closest disciples , they remembered the wrong judgment that was committed against him. uh, since yesterday. from good friday. we already recalled, in fact, those godfathers, the sufferings with which he undergone in this holy place at calvary these sufferings. of course, they can’t be transmitted human, you can say in language and therefore, it is precisely through 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 traveled before he was crucified, he

crossed his shoulders and uh, being already in this place on calvary, when he was e crucified he and underwent those nuki that the holy church remembers and after the crucifixion of the body of the savior was removed and placed in a new coffin. we know that nicodemus joseph e. they somehow came as disciples in order to bury their teacher and, in fact, laying the body in a coffin. they brewed his memoirs just about how it happened, and now a little earlier it happened with a large wax seal that

is placed on the gate. mansky, who actually open the temple, they must also put their testimonies of the seal on this seal, by the way, the ancient name of this seal is custodia and it is usually used. uh, this is usually called something that cannot be opened until a certain moment, and according to legend, this thick one is made of wax, on which 40 liturgies were previously performed. it is difficult for us to verify whether this is so now, but we believe in this that wax is a specially prepared wax that is sealed.

the sealing of the goblet also signifies that there is no one there. the goblet is divided into two parts by the limit of the angel. here we see how this wax. now we bring it to the entrance, just at this limit of the angel, where divine e, liturgy just on a special stone e, e covering, which actually marked here the stone that was laid on e, the place of entry in the group, which we now see, of course, one cannot help but recall the words of pilate. whoever said have guards. go, guard, as you know knowledge, they went and placed guards at the rude and applied stone. and uh, what that representatives of, uh, families that keep the keys, they put this

seal. look, they did not believe in sunday saviors, so the guard that was installed in front of the coffin should also have been testify that e the savior was not stolen by the disciples, like the pharisees. e, they were convinced of this when they bribed, then the guards, as the evangelists tell us that, while giving them money, they spread the rumor that the body of the savior was stolen. here we, unfortunately, cannot see them, but the entrance from the limit of the angel into the cave, rudely of the lord. today it is decorated with a marble portal and on the left at the entrance are the wives of the myrrh-bearing woman and on the right, the archangel gabriel stretching out his hand to them and at the top of the portal of the marble shelves with the inscription in greek, reproducing words, angel.

what are you looking for alive? he is not here among the dead, he has risen and in order to join the mystery of sunday, as we said, many representatives of different confessions 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 the record, how representatives of these denominations came, uh, to the temple some time ago. now we see how e to the temple includes a delegation of the armenian apostolic

church. those who are according to the status quo also have certain limits in which they perform their services according to a certain schedule, as we know, divine services are performed on the group of the lord, and the armenian apostolic church owns a part of the cry, which is located on the head of the savior but now we see and we have now was a happy opportunity to see. e kavasov. uh, in the clothes in which they, uh, came back in the 19th century, it was difficult, it happens sometimes. let's go to the temple of the resurrection of christ is not so simply because of the restrictive measures that were in place today. and this is just the armenian delegation, i didn’t see it at first. yes, at first there were kopti, now the armenian church. 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, staves, which, as i understand it , can also get some careless pilgrims. yes, and it can be very painful, especially when this staff hits on the leg, and now, when we sometimes say hmm what role do they play about you? and that they are absolutely nominal. it's not entirely true, because they do, uh, work with israel's security services a few years ago, uh, we talked in great detail about you. so for those who are interested in this. you can review. well, now this is also part of the rituals of that

ceremony and witnesses that we are now. each representative of the denomination who comes to the temple has a certain a place where they can be, as i said, representatives of confessions occupy certain places where they perform their services and prayers throughout the day according to a certain schedule. we again returned to the live broadcast in the church of the resurrection. eh , the lord's and we are waiting for the arrival of the patriarch, who apparently delayed, and i wanted to add that in the xix century, uh those problems that sometimes were between representatives of different faiths. they just proceeded from the fact that the sweaters are armenians orthodox or catholics. uh, wanted

proceed those restrictions. which they had and it caused. it caused, certain hmm fighting moods, even this also happened to be bloody. well, now you see contented emotional conversations, but he's 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 also calls are part of in a sense , the life in which, uh, the current pilgrims find themselves, because in order to to participate in this ceremony, of course, everyone in their own way expresses foolishness, joy, and, of course, the most famous one.

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. in any case, they represent the arab orthodox community that is in jerusalem. we see them so emotional. emotional entrance, when they hold crosses waving bunches of candles on armbands in special t-shirts, they shout loudly that our lord jesus christ is the true god absolutely, of course, unusual and incomprehensible for our may be a more calm moderate mentality, but nonetheless. this is also part of that ritual,

without which the ascension of fire does not occur. well, in general, russian pilgrims. uh, they were always surprised when, uh, they participated in the holy fire, when they saw these prayers of arab orthodox people uh, uh. yes, we know, now we already know that they sing, that they are the most eastern most orthodox, that they live where the sun rises, that they bring candles with them for you to burn colors. fire is not prayed to the mother of god george the victorious, who is very revered in the east. and well, at the same time, well, it often happened quite often that there were several russian pilgrims. you looked at these dances

forgetting about the dances of david excuse me before the ark, but you know here i would like to remember the words of my father. uh, antonina uh, archimandrite antonin kapustin, head of the russian spiritual mission in jerusalem, one of the most famous, who once said that russian pilgrims need to get used to seeing uh in the middle east, uh others, uh, believing other christians who are not like us in anything, except for one image of a human and a christian name like that. that's a very, uh, beautiful perception, i think. well, this is evidence that uh, christians all over the world. everyone is famous in their own way, the lord is not at all easy. in the east of the orthodox arabs

, a lot of his arab youth is preserved as a dividing territory of the community that keep the orthodox faith. about them, too, was one of the videos of past broadcasts. now we hear the bells and it's is usually a harbinger of the entry of the patriarch philosopher. well, for now, they continue to show us as pilgrims. with what joy they pass several cordons and get to the square and enter the temple. as a rule, a networked patriarcheophile.

uh, he leaves the church, james the brother of the lord where is the jerusalem patriarchate located and where does the procession to the church of the resurrection of the lord actually begin? ethiopian, leaving the greek patriarchate , passes by his house constantine helena descends the stairs and enters the square in front of the temple. well, while the bells are ringing, well, we don't have patriarchs 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 myrrh-bearing wives

who were converted, e words of an angel, that you are looking for the living among the dead he is not. here he was resurrected was just mary magdalene let's see prepared in the plot, the lake is one of the iconic places of biblical writing, here jesus christ called the first disciples. he preached, laid the foundation for miracles from the signs of nearness at the foot of the mountain, the russian compound is located , named after the holy apostle mary magdalene. in general, this is our pride, it is located next to the ancient makda. and generally speaking, those archaeological excavations that carried out everything around our farmstead and on our territory indicate that this place was inhabited for another 3.5. even years

before our era and when the pilgrims come it's always interesting to watch their reactions. everyone comes to start to admire i was impressed. it’s just that in general, being here here is the power of prayer, as if the metochion itself was acquired by archimandrite leonid sentsov in 1909. the choice of a place when buying the land was not by chance the ancient city of magdala - this place of birth is equal to the apostle mary magdalene. and the place where this compound is located, christian tradition, is associated with an episode of the healing of mary magdalene, when the lord expelled her family from her pure spirits in the sixties of the xx century. a small temple was built in the compound , dedicated to the most equally apostolic and tremulous wife of the myrrh-bearing messenger on sunday mary magdalene, it was painted with frescoes by the famous icon painter yaroslav dobrynin. there are several

springs on the territory, three of them are fresh, the rest are mineral. uh, some of the radon in these springs can be bathed in. an ancient tradition calls one of the springs a spring. mary magdalene bathing. it is revered as healing among those who are also revered healing eye source per year. the courtyard is visited by about 6-7 thousand people, for their accommodation not far from the cloisters there is a hotel belonging to the russian spiritual mission and 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. this courtyard lives like a monastery , there is an older sister who is responsible for the selection of life, and sisters who carry out prayer deeds and, of course, we try to have people come to help them volunteers from russia from belarus yes, and generally speaking from all over the world, russian-speaking, uh,

orthodox believers who want to work hard. the courtyard gladly accepts those who wish to help the monastery with labor at 5:30, i 'm already leaving. the day begins with the fact that we go to milk the scythes. we have goats that are very beautiful with long ears. uh, further we have uh, who has what obedience someone sweeps the main staircase. it could be cleanup . it can be cutting bushes and the guys are mowing, uh, spectrum is a big grass, that is , he did something in the garden, and in some the construction work was attended by the workers themselves. they say that although the days in the compound are devoted to physical labor and sometimes they are difficult, the grace that fills

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 your soul is very calm, despite the fact that we all get tired in the evening sometimes . sometimes you just want to crawl to the bed to go to bed and that's it. but it's a pleasant fatigue here, a feeling of peace and joy joy from the fact that you, well, just sweep the leaves, plant flowers, communicate with animals. i feel happy here, well , for real. so far there has been a plot, we see how the most patriarcheophile. e, goes to the square in front of the church of the resurrection. lord, we now see him on the screen he was carrying the patriarchal cross. ah, hieromonks,

archimandrite monks. and this is probably the most. significant pilgrims from greece or some other countries, the patriarch also enters the temple and passes by the anointing stone for re-clothes. he must be fully dressed. in the city it is put on during the ceremony of the holy fire, that is. who is the service that will now take place? in a sense, it is a continuation of the liturgical service. although, of course , it is not part of the liturgy, nevertheless, the patriarch dresses in full, as during

the divine service. and we see, i understand that he will change clothes in white clothes. yes, because today is holy saturday in all the churches where it was performed. uh, holy saturday service. we celebrated liturgies basil the great, and the re-dressing of black clothes was just taking place. in white. precisely, these are white liturgical deeds and it will now be patriarcheophilia. now we see how he enters the temple and goes to the greek part, and to the follicles , no more than the part where the orthodox greek liturgy proper is celebrated and should be approached with the blessing of the representatives of the confessions who participate in the ceremony. say like fire. and sometimes it so happened that the patriarch had to wait

when, uh, these representatives of different faiths, and uh, not always not always. it was just as fast as, uh, the pilgrims are now uh, waiting and froze in anticipation of the beginning of the procession of the spit, they reached and uh, they are trying. um, somehow, uh, expand the space so that, uh, the procession, which will go around three times to the switch, so that it is still convenient to pass and, uh, there were no big problems. it must also be said that the action that we are now seeing is special, and has already developed over the course of time. not just centuries of many centuries, because tun kak went down uh,

from the earliest times, the most diverse pilgrims, not only orthodox, but also catholic and muslim, testified to the holy light of fire. uh, witnesses who testified that light was sown on the tomb of the lord. one of the earliest and first such testimonies is the testimony of church history, according to him, when one day there was not enough lamp oil, the patriarch. uh, nargiz blessed the presence of the lamp. e, the waters of the selam font and the fire descended from heaven, i lead to the lamps that burned behind this in the continuation of the entire paschal sum , the testimony that was left not in syria is one of the very first that happened precisely on the tomb of the lord that the roman pilgrim also testified that there was a hot lamp on the chest of the lord. a tree of the same time of the iv century, when she speaks about it, that is, more than one and a half thousand years.

eh, there is evidence that e light e on the tomb of the lord on the blessed saturday in a special way appeared today. e we quite often already the same as in our previous e broadcasts. uh, we are talking, uh, about the fact that the first russian pilgrim who recorded how he was present at the descent of the holy fire was hegumen daniel in 1107. he his pilgrimage then lasted 3 years and it was understandable because the path e from the borders of russia to palestine was. eh, very, very difficult. and even more so, uh, there were wars and uh, he had to overcome a lot. and in the holy land of these three years, he spent only half a year, almost winter, and, uh, returned

. hmm, returned to russia almost immediately after easter. well, pay attention, that, uh, there are a lot of pilgrims. right now we see many male pilgrims. in general, but the face of a russian. hmm, a monument to a pilgrim - it's still a woman's face. uh, just like in the 19th century, just like in the last 20 years, after all, 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, they were probably very pleased. and the aforementioned pilgrim daniel left a hot lamp on the tomb of the lord, again there are

traditions that the lamp that will soon we will see which will be installed on the tomb of the lord. she is exactly the one he set. uh, here for the first time during his sexual association. you know, modern uh, historians, have come to the conclusion that, otherwise, the love and respect that he received in jerusalem, and hmm , the first baldwin king of jerusalem, he was also associated with the fact that she died shortly before him in jerusalem. eh, gidaraldovna. the first russian noble hmm pilgrim who arrived. from novgorod came came with great difficulty through constantinople to jerusalem and died e in jerusalem and in fact was

such a participant in the first e crusade and e, therefore, how do you compare the facts. it is not surprising that a few years after the death of hedoradones and very benevolent. e hegumen daniel was received by the king of jerusalem. well, exactly the same as uh, after only 60 years. uh , she arrived in the holy land, and in russia, not polatskaya at all , uh, wonderful uh, a saint who is very especially revered in belarus, although she is also called the mother of female monasticism in russia and by her order it was made on the throne cross, in which there were e,

unique religions. well, these are snippets. e of the crystals was lost during the great patriotic war and, so far, has not yet been found. ah, 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 return to wokley, we want to say what it is the only chapel that bears just such a name in the world, because uh, uh , the kara bed, where our lord jesus christ

is repairing and this is a special place. the coffin is a carved rock, a cave, which was the very spoon of the saviors, as we said before it was the limit of the angels, those first women who came 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 e-life, and it was here that the stone was rolled away. and now we see how the seal is being removed , just the sign of how this happened and in the limit of the angel’s own

divine service is being performed now, and the patriarch himself and his phil 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 they now give away this seal, designed like a washcloth. like this uh, you can buy it and this there will be such your original, eulogia. uh, 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 with bunches of chains. yes, we saw. right now, the priests of the archimandrites, there

should be 12 of them according to the number of apostles. they are clothed, yes, in garments which are garments of greek design. the so-called greek here are the filoni, which are traditionally russian orthodox priests. yes, they don’t, well, or they wear some special occasions, but they are clearly preparing for the beginning of the godfather, yes. in 2020, at the time of qaida, we could observe how the patriarch dresses and we understood what was happening. and now we just have to wait and uh and not see then we were sad then that there were no believers in the temple . now

everyone is waiting for e-lamps and are already preparing to open the gates, the angels limit where the lamps are. it will be first applied, and then transferred already on the bed of the savior, every year this icon lamp from the altar of the temple resurrection is brought by the elder kilo-phylax. the guards speak russian even today, this is the archbishop of whom many russian pilgrims know. he treats the pilgrims from russia with warmth and love. but while we are waiting, while we are waiting, until the lampada has been brought to their coffin, the player continues to remain closed the myrrh-bearers

who were at the coffin. they were obviously confused. they didn't know when they saw resurrected christ did not 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 before the tomb of the lord was such an expectation associated with uncertainty, as if on the verge between faith and bewilderment about what could happen. what mystery took place behind the closed gates of the holy sepulcher they did not know who could roll away the stone. because it was very heavy, the stone on which the divine liturgy is served, and now there is, uh, the stone that signifies that stone, who was turned away from the tomb and the myrrh-bearing woman, being in front of the tomb. just like

many pilgrims. they, uh, were obviously in some kind of expectation of that miracle that could happen here, but the miracle of the sunday of the saviors is the main sacrament that changes the world, because we know that on the sunday of christ it gives forgiveness to sin, 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 the sledgehammer. what is the atmosphere there now ? how is the waiting for the patriarch to go to the procession, good afternoon sergey hello. yes, indeed many hours of waiting has come to its climax.

we see how bright red crimson festive banners appeared, with which the patriarchs in the process will go around the cry three times, led by the most blessed patriarch of jerusalem theophilus the third, and only after that the sealed holy of holies of the lord’s tomb will be opened and the primacy of the greek the orthodox church of jerusalem , followed by the clergy 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, believe the athos elders if it dries up. the oak of mamre, if the holy fire does not come down in jerusalem on great saturday, then the end of the world will come. this belief gives a special thrill and a special sharp emotions to the moment of expectation, for which

tens of thousands of christians from all over the world came to jerusalem for the courts orthodox christians from greece from russia from georgia from belarus and many many other countries, russian speech is audible. 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 and now the lamas. then they put it on the coffin, after which the doors. eh , the chapel of the coffin will close again and the procession of the cross will begin, three waitings will go around the goblet and undergrowth of troparia, sounding in

our ear of the russian believer in oriental chant and slow. this will correspond to the moment of the moment, on the one hand, the experience of tragedy, on the other hand, the hope of hope for the victory of life over death and light over darkness. we will soon see. this is in our broadcast from 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. wife with blessed fire we

are waiting for the beginning of the procession, we saw that harun wine-bearers with 12 banners were already lined up in the cafelecon. and uh, as soon as the procession begins, in fact, the main thing is, uh, part of today's elitonia. and i think that m-m prayer mood and uh, the power of prayer, like in the temple, and uh, in. e monasteries of the holy land. uh, russia, and she, uh, will increase in order for hmm, but the lord to show his will. weaving is also one of the names. uh, those prayers that are performed by, uh, western traditions like our ikea. actually, they are such, that is , flying, just like a special prayer that the whole church lifts up after

the clergy, the priests , the lampada, no one, except for the laks. well inside. and we are waiting for the patriarch to come to that procession, which is in all our churches already happened 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 sunday , christ’s because they will sing, but they will, and those prayers that we will perform tonight already on the second chair, your sunday. save christ now, all those who pray

are really not quite, familiar to us in a singsong greek cut. which , in fact, will already be proclaiming the upcoming easter in jerusalem, the descent of the holy fire is already perceived. 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, well, fell under uh, this uh, all the general euphoria. e, the feast of the descent of the holy fire and e, very often they forgot that the easter service. we are yet to come. here we see the members of our e delegation. hmm, the delegation of

the st. andrew the first-called foundation. in anticipation of the beginning of the procession, for which now everything is still being prepared. we haven't mentioned the other ones yet. svoitov, who are also obligatory participants in the ceremony of the descent of the holy fire, these are the monks from the lavra of the monk, savva the sacred and the presence of the hegumen and monks of the father in the sacred service of the holy fire is an obligatory part of the ceremony about this, by the way, abbot daniel wrote, that is, already from ancient times - this tradition existed. now, everyone is in reverent anticipation of this time, when indeed all believers who are in the kuvukli are trying to focus on

prayer, realizing that a special event, which happened at this place, which awaits us, we can already say tonight tonight, if we are talking about an astronomical day, but already on the tomb of the lord, and pascha 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. please note that at the door on the left side there are two representatives of the armenian church and on the right two representatives of the orthodox church. and uh, they even have they change, then uh total

and the way they stand. this is also completely unchanged and enters into the same one. here we are waiting. uh, the beginning of the procession uh, it didn't start, the coffin was sealed, again covered with tape. and i would like to remember one more thing about what, mm, in june. e this year marks 140 years. e opening the threshold of judicial rights. this, uh, 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

the convict and, uh, the brother could stop the procession for the last time, when if suddenly there was someone who would declare that he had new facts. demanding and which could help stop the execution, and on that single day in history, when christ voluntarily crossed the vice of the judgment frags, taking upon himself the sins of all mankind, there was no one in jerusalem who wanted or dared to say a word in favor of the guilt of the condemned. and this is what we see with you as a dome. ah, the dome of the ratunda. uh, she hmm not so long ago only with this look. we after all, we know it only since 1997, and when the inner surface, er, received the golden

star, it was decorated in the form of triple glory 12 large petals 24 small sharp rays, as if superimposed on the lower large glory and above them. a short cylinder of drums decorated with golden stars and an eye through which the light passes russian pilgrims, when describing e the descent of the holy fire at the moment when the patriarch entered to perform his prayer. and judging by the faces that we see now. e, this is the most agonizing thing, but waiting and some kind of even confusion, it seems to me, how is this centering for you, well,

yes. it seems to me that this is exactly the confusion that the peace-bearer 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 it empty. for them. this was also incredible. many of the disciples did not believe on the sunday of christ. the testimonies left to them by the myrrh-bearing women and i will omit 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 had risen in real flesh, only after that their faith was strengthened, only after that they would already begin their preaching around the world after

the apparitions. christ after his ascension and after how the lord will leave them this special commandment to preach the word of god and baptize the whole world in the name of the father and the sons of the holy spirit , by the way, this year e on a holiday. e. intercession will be 135. years from the day of the consecration of the church of mary magdalene in gethsemane about the poor temple built by the imperial family in memory of empress maria alexandrovna , who worked very hard for russian palestine as a heavenly patron, who was just equal-to-the-apostles mary magdalene one of the peace-bearing gentes. well, there rests the relics, especially revered, uh, the venerable martyr grand duchess elizabeth feodorovna, who worked very hard in the holy land, thanks to whom, uh, 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 too. although, of course, she did not initially assume this. well, in general , the palestinian society this year. uh , a lot of hmm anniversaries are such anniversaries associated uh with people who are people who uh worked in uh, the holy land, and worked either they personally came to help, or, uh, they worked. uh, thanks to, hmm, 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 be

celebrating 225 years this year, uh from the day of her birth , it’s amazing that her charity covered both russia the holy land and athos and the island of crete, she worked hard in the balkans in mesopotamia but of course, the most significant gift of maria mikhailovna to the holy land was the church of the savior on the mountain of overthrow in nazareth and er, it was not built for the russian spiritual mission. not for russia, not for the synod, it was built for those very poor orthodox arabs who lived there and, uh , russian pilgrims always came to this temple, when they came to nazareth for the annunciation and always visited it, but maria

mikhailovna kiseleva uh, one more is connected, uh the temple is a greek church, uh the holy prophet elisha in uh jericho. in general, she remained e in history with her largest donations, and more than 100,000 rubles. poor orthodox bulgaria and greece palestine 50.000 russian spiritual mission. here we see the patriarch blesses the procession begins. well, in general, uh, returning to maria 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, to be honest, the volume of her financial charity he e exceeds e,

the imperial family’s charity and e, i know that in retirement she is very e, they revere a and. i hope that someday maria mikhailovna will number of saints, because her prayer e, veneration 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 . very much starting. uh, still that way, which is the king's way, which the lord began last sunday, which we call

two weeks and right, sunday, when jerusalem greeted him as a king, as a liberator from a hated risk , pastila branches, palm trees, according to the tradition of this accident, we have a sign that e has come, finally the king, and now only some time passes several days and there is no one at the gates of judgment to intercede for the saviors, several days pass and the already insane crowd screams, that is, we remember. this is the royal happiness, which turns out to be the sixth on dolgov, which is now being accomplished, on the one hand, it is and the burial of the savior and, on the other hand,