their joy that now there will be a descent of the blessed fire, they chant and shout our hearts are open to the lord, lord, descend in the form of fire on the beams. and this is how an ananar shouts one man, and behind him everyone picks up from chanting. they are waiting for the convergence of the holy fire in joy , whistling and waving crosses and bunches. sergei rightly mentioned the concept of the status of kva, that is, the situation that existed before certain events began. and the presence of arab youth is also an integral part of ceremonies of the descent of the blessed fire. because without them here these joyful cries. it can be said that the cries of prayer do not take place precisely this wonderful ceremony. despite the fact that the arab

youth, it is very small, it is very difficult for them to live. naturally you e islamic environment, but nonetheless. they keep this tradition going. they come in bundles, and we know that these bundles of candles are 33 according to the number of years of the savior's earthly life, well, they are held not only by arab youth, but also by everyone who gathered in the temple, preparing to light them later from the blessed fire. this is such an eastern tradition, a joyful, eastern tradition. once i saw an arab standing on a huge silver platter with a huge curved saber and shouting. eh, the mother of god and he was thrown up, and he cut his legs with a sword and cut him. ah, a thin handkerchief. e with great

joy. this is an expression of joy. e, the presence of god in the church of the holy sepulcher that now is the most extraordinary moment now e a miracle will happen a few years ago in 2018 e during our reports, there was just a story dedicated to arab youth and those who are especially interested in this can see the archives. after a while, we will now see how the discovery took place. e temple early this morning. very distant times, the arabs entrusted the keeping of the key to the hussein family, which stands below, and,

accordingly, the family, well, seibi, here is her representative, just now he was climbing the stairs, he has a special right to open the gates of the temple to muslims, as to outsiders who are not christians, who here's how to keep track so that the gates are always opened every day correctly without passion, they are a guarantor of the safety of a kind. she has checked herself for many years by the farms, confirmed by turkish ones and is still observed. it is surprising that for many centuries the farms issued since the time of salahaddin, they are still acting with reverence with reverence kept in these muslim families. they are still arguing among themselves about which of them is older, and which of them occupies

a more privileged status, but at the same time they live fairly well together. and this order is maintained every day. now we see, uh, early filming, when only the gates were opened, and the tomb of the lord was not yet sealed. it is being checked by various representatives, is there anything on fire there? so that the tomb is empty, and then it is sealed and the key to the rude lord is kept on this day by the representative of the armenian apostolic church. you see that all the light of light is turned off everywhere. no waiting for the light that comes down from heaven. uh, the greeks don't call the holy fire the holy fire. they call his holy light. and even in prayer we have such an expression in the light of your lord, the pattern of light. light

is a special biblical image, the image that is preserved in our church history. actually, this is the image of the athosite degadatory color, which we recalled during great lent, when we talked about st. gregory for the whole week, when we recalled precisely the meaning of human life, that the acquisition of the holy spirit is one of the main things for every christian, of course everyone can understand it in their own way, but it is precisely special grace. eh, sveta she is present in the temple. now we will see a short story dedicated to the history of the church of the holy sepulcher the main place of veneration and pilgrimage for all christians is the temple of the resurrection and the holy sepulcher, it was erected

on the site of the crucifixion of the burial and the resurrection of jesus christ the modern church of the holy sepulcher is an architectural complex that includes golgotha ​​with a place of crucifixion rotunda kafalecon stone of peace anointing underground churches of the acquisition of the life-giving cross and st. helena equal-to-the-apostles after the destruction of jerusalem in the seventieth year on the spot golgotha ​​was built by the pagan temple of venus, which was demolished after the pilgrimage of st. helena, the mother of the byzantine emperor constantine, now the temple does not resemble the original building. it was thoroughly destroyed in the seventh century during the invasion of the persians. in its current form, the temple was built by the crusaders and consecrated in 1149, when jerusalem became the capital of the christian state of the crusaders during the time of sultan

saladin in 1187. the church of the holy sepulcher left all catholic bread, flowers, and places were returned to orthodox christian pilgrims. visiting the temple was allowed. between six different denominations, an agreement was established on the ownership of the temple later in the 18th century, called the status quo, in accordance with it, the greek orthodox catholic armenian copts syrian and ethiopian denominations were allocated their limits and hours for prayers with a symbol. the status quo has become a staircase. at the window of the facade, the original purpose, which, if necessary, go up or down through the window to the armenian limit of the second tier. temple, the status quo of holy places was confirmed in 1878 in berlin by forever securing

the pre-emptive rights of the jerusalem orthodox church to store christian shrines during the ottoman empire, the protection of order in the temple was entrusted to turkish soldiers currently maintaining. the order is entrusted to the police, israel to minimize conflicts between different faiths, the keys to the temple from the 12th century are kept in an arab muslim family on the basis of ancient ferman decrees of the sultans to the temple, at all times every year, millions of pilgrims and tourists strive to reach the ascent of the holy fire, waiting with bated breath in different parts of the world, watching the broadcast of the service of holy saturday live. the presence of antiquity in the church of the lord's sunday is striking. every step is literally. it

can be said that the regulated status quo is the opening of the temple itself and the presence of arab youth in a certain sense, and the broadcast, which we have been for the nineteenth year. carrying out is also part of this status quo and a certain the presence of the russian presence in the holy land and surprisingly, that observed e is not a merger. uh, each denomination service is at 12:00. every night the service begins first uh, the greeks then uh, the armenians are serving after the armenian delegation now, which is standing near excuse me to show our viewers. our delegation includes the chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation of st. andrew the first-called vladimir ivanovich yakunin and the first deputy chairman of the foundation kononenko pyotr

ivanovich and the bishop near odintsovo krasnogorsk the century-old lantern of the patriarch of moscow all russia , he managed this year to visit the tomb of the lord and attend the convergence of fire, but they say that this grace is preserved and the next week sees a lot of flashes and a lot of different phenomena of the blessed fire, which is imprinted in the temple all year round, and pious pilgrims feel this amazing presence of grace all year round. different denominations come to the temple one after another, also according to the status quo. and this tradition has been established for centuries now.

here we look at how different denominations. e, they visit the temple, and they also enter under the protection of the kavasa of special guards, who, since muslim times, had to protect them. well, now they already perform police functions, and in a sense, this is also part of the tradition. how to correctly say the status here they have staves in their hands, and they knock very hard on the stones. they started to come this morning representatives of different faiths. here we are now seeing representatives of the sulfur of the jacobite church leading a small group, since she is small in size, then represented by a small delegation. and down below

, there are a lot of pilgrims around the square, they climb onto the foundations of the column. there were times when they stayed in god's europe from the night, the tradition changed for this, accordingly, stones fall right before the voklia immediately at the entrance. this is the only entrance through which you can get to the temple and through which representatives of confessions entered this morning and russian icons. here are the representatives of the kursk e-e korean too as i said, egyptian christians, and in the red frescoes, these are just kavats with special wands. they knock to warn of the arrival. the sealed

temple is a very beautiful drawing. they are preparing to seal their equal group of the lord in order to prepare for the ceremony of the descent of the holy fire of different faiths, the armenian apostolic church and the catholic church were examined by vera closed, but they carry just the seal that bears father also means the closing of the holy sepulcher, which was kept by the roman guards. we are shown the seal of the church. and they

will be one of the participants in the ceremony. printing as you can say, they are also connected with the recollection of the gospel events of the holy sepulcher, on which a seal was placed and pontius pilate put guards so that no one would steal the body of the savior, as the pharisees believed, but, of course, it could have been, only on sunday one more a ? the delicacy of the representatives of the confession is continued by the representatives of the armenian church. everyone is concentrated, waiting for the convergence of fire, wearing such caps, a small prayer group. so they move slowly.

on the one hand, i have already said, these are memoirs of the events of the gospel, and on the other hand, this is evidence that there is no one in the tomb. we look at it is empty and it is sealed, this is confirmed by several hours in the armenian border, where the mother of god stood and looked at the golgo. from above , we see an unusual frame. it's inside the lodge. lord , we will see how the arab youth goes. here their arrival is associated with noise. we have already talked about it, that they have their love for god in such an unusual way manifest in one word. as those who were close to them said. they even say

that christ is from the same village as we are, that is, such a childish direct. e, the perception of e and the blessed fire and the resurrection of christ, because the fire and resurrection for them are the only evidence of the gospel event, which we remember tomorrow in the holy land. we are already beginning to perceive today precisely the exit of the holy hours. you see them waving a white flag with crosses. this is a flag. e greek patriarchy. they glorify, uh, the greek patriarchy support it at this moment they whistle and tambourine drums sound waving crosses crosses are made from the olives of the holy land on the crosses. uh, small icons are placed by the savior and huge candles are now holding 33 candles, snob is huge

, it will be lit when god bless this year. festive so every year. they also have a special shape. here in this year we see such white t-shirts with arabic inscriptions which glorify christ, as a rule, they write christ is risen. it is directly addressed to the lord and childish spontaneity. but sometimes it leads, of course, to some fights, but we really hope it 's under control. e israeli police and yet, despite their emotional elation. still, they adhere to certain rules of a certain framework. yes, and at the same time. it

brings out some kind of festive atmosphere at this moment, because everything is very everything concentrated and suddenly such sounds burst in. eh, and oddly enough, it supports the understanding that this is a completely different people, that this is a different reaction than ours. previously, they still climbed onto metal fittings, which were removed several years ago after repair work. those restoration works that were carried out here in the seventeenth year could not be coordinated for a very long time, and again precisely because several confessions must agree, and this , of course, costs a lot of money. that is why these are the restoration works they were, uh, stretched out, but for a very long time almost for 2020. but now we see the kuvuklya and the temple of the lord is so

special, you can say primordial beauty. what was it like back in the 19th century? they continue to chant and rejoice at the holiday, everyone is filmed. because it's very unusual. tattoos, well, apparently, for me such secular young people, but at the same time it is a special honor for them to participate in this ceremony, because not everyone is allowed to go. of course, the main participant in the ceremony will be the patriarch theophilus of jerusalem, whose third is awaited impatiently. and which will be the main one. actually,

a bell strikes at the head of the ceremony of convergence of the holy fire, uh, the bell towers of the holy sepulcher, the russian bells were transported in the 19th century, pitted and dragged on foot on special skating rinks, and until now all these bells hang and sound in the holy land, not one is not broken, not one is not such a reverent attitude to the bells is silent. apparently. that affected their safety. here, apparently, our delegation. and this is the arabs again chanting that the russian pilgrims, since the eleventh century, may have visited virusalim before. we know that the lampada of the entire russian world was installed here, and now there is a russian presence. here there is also in the form of

bells of various slopes of lamps that are in the temple. for us, this is very valuable and significant, a lot was donated to the royal family of the romanovs by nicholas ii and there are personal embroideries. uh, martyr empress alexandra and her children. here is russian. eh, its presence is associated not only with special valuable traces, but also with the presence of a russian one can say the creative intelligentsia of the holy land, which is associated with the activities of our artists and contemporary artists. what will another story be about in the near future? with

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

ilya repin ilya repin noted the specifics of the atmosphere features of sunlight in jerusalem especially since he was here in the summer, vasily vereshchagin created canvases in paints, essentially documentary, creating pictures of biblical history. vasily polenov in palestine collected material for one of his main works, the painting christ and the sinner, the tradition of artistic understanding of the life of the holy land continued into the twentieth century. currently, orthodox nuns, carrying out obedience in the monastery of the gethsemane monastery, create watercolor drawings that depict the places of the gospel events of the holy land, the place where the feet of the savior and the apostles stepped on many watercolors of the sisters of the monastery, you can see flowers according to the remarks of the saints, the fathers of the flower, as a symbol of perfection

, left by the lord on earth for a reminder. the savior contemplated the heavenly paradise, the flowers of palestine, during his earthly life as a sister. in the siman monastery there are nuns who have a professional art education an integral part of the monastic service in all russian monasteries in the holy land, the nuns themselves consider the creation of watercolors in the holy land and subsequent exhibitions, as a missionary activity over the past 20 years, a traveling exhibition of the sisters' watercolors has been presented in the art museums of russia. we paint on the holy land through the contemplation of watercolor paintings, you can feel the grace of the holy land,

feel the love that the creator called us. here comes the patriarch, the theophilus of jerusalem , the third. well, at least i should now. to appear, because the kavass came out always surprisingly always go first no women, and then the metropolitans will go and the last is the patriarch. such is the tradition and the way in which he passes, too, is firmly fixed from the temple of jacob. there is a specially designed passage to the roof of the holy sepulcher to the greek patriarchate and up this staircase immediately from the patriarchy. uh, the entire delegation can go to the

courtyard of the holy sepulcher, usually, uh, many guests come from the seminary of the greek uh, students, listeners, teachers come a lot the richly decorated patriarchal cross is carrying the guests from greece in desperation and you see how prostatitis it all is, such a ceremonial simplicity of the arrival, there is no such special solemnity, that is, everyone comes as servants of god, the patriarch has already appeared, and he

must now come in nothing inside. among them is one, but nevertheless he is the main person of this ceremony. that is, it emphasizes the sacredness of this moment. at what age and how much do they celebrate their seventieth birthday this year? actually in the holy land and he was also pastor. e of the church of the holy sepulcher, and when the question arose of electing a new patriarch, then there he was. he goes in a sandpiper for re-clothes, he dresses in full bishop

's clothes, the patriarch's robe is in front of us in a deep in such a simple monastic robe and only on papanageyas and precious crosses . we understand that we have a patriarch in front of us. this is the delegation behind him. they are now going to the main greek temple in kafeleko, where is the patriarch going to change clothes? to put on and after that the godfather must begin move around whether everyone is trying to film the arrival of the patriarch. this is exactly what we are showing us, like a tile-con, overflowing with people waiting for the descent of the blessed fire. these are cries of joy of anticipation. these are

arabs. so the arab women shout on the eve of holy saturday , according to tradition, at the reception of the most flowery patriarch on theophilus there were representatives of the russian delegation, who traditionally prayed for peace for jerusalem and for the whole world. and after a while. we will be able to watch a story about this meeting, a representative of the russian deputation and of the patriarchal council presented valuable gifts were episcopal gifts to krasnogorsk of all russia, there was an ambassador in israel anatoly dmitrievich viktorov and

the head of the russian spiritual mission, archimandrite alexander yeltsov, in greek it is based on the words and 121 psalms about the hit of the world jerusalem , first the patriarch reads it in greek, which the heart of the holy land is the jerusalem of peace on earth, which comes from this sacred place of god to save the world.