the patron of the moscow patriarch of all russia was the russian ambassador to israel anatoly dmitrievich viktorov and the head of the russian spiritual mission, archimandrite alexander yeltsintsev 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 , it is emphasized that 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. oh,

we also pray for the peace of the region on the mother and churches, and for the peace of all the holy churches of god they create miracles, food with a thrown heart on the holy forever the holy spirit is special, which is connected only with jerusalem, but with the whole world. what we pray in our day is that this peace will reign in our hearts and around us. we ask for peace and for our country. it is a long tradition of such a special meeting with uh, the patriarch, which every year, well, with the exception of only the event associated with the twentieth year, but there was uh, a warm atmosphere between uh,

the patriarch and representatives of our russian delegation of the russian spiritual mission. here now when there is a procession, we can just ask for peace and such a special state for everyone, and everyone expects that at this moment it is the lord who will visit his soul, his heart and during the procession around whom the coals at this moment. eh, every soul and everyone standing here is praying for peace and waiting for the lord to have mercy this year and this year the holy fire will come down. and each bundle can be ignited with a flowery fire that does not burn in the first minutes, it has non-earthly properties. he is

a cold fire, not for nothing, the greeks call him the holy light is called light and is compared with the light of tabor. and we see how the kavats, he with great difficulty manages to restrain the people who are pressing and although there are much fewer people than usual, but nevertheless, nevertheless, everyone wants to be present next to the patriarch, who, again, according to the regulations, is suitable for representatives of all faiths and uh, welcomed by the armenian delegation, which is traditionally always welcomed first. eh, just the patriarch is worth it.

the greek patriarchy and in general they wear crosses, because, uh, chitons are also characteristic of the arabs. uh, some fathers. just hearty fabulous attitude ask how many arab women can? here e in jerusalem they are similar to our nun just compare. uh, as if this is a monastic presence in the holy land of a nun. now they should also be near the tomb of the lord, so we saw in the plot that they are engaged in such a wonderful thing as painting, and it is obvious that this is also part of their preaching of their especially even spiritual relationship. e your form of the monastic

holy form. it's prayerful such a wearing when a nun walks around jerusalem around e, spread. these are grace and respect. uh, different confessions to each other, especially distinguish the priests. the arabs call them abuna. and if you and the priest come up to buy juice, then they will give it, first the priests and admirers and say abuna. here are the names of this juice for him, because he prays. he is a prayer book. and here it is highly respected in the holy land. and uh, welcome, when you stand near the temple, cross yourself with the banner of the cross and bow to the ground, as well as other confessions in this moment is prayed if the time has come for a muslim to pray. he gets out of the car, throws a rug

and begins to bow towards mecca, that is, there are different confessions here, and everyone is in prayer. and, as it were, this is why we pray for peace. so that hmm there would be no such infringement of confessions, so that everyone should have the right to pray for this, the self-atmosphere of the holy city calls for it. here in the center in the heart of the holy sepulcher is amazing. uh, this is where we are now at the tomb, where the sunday of christ will be. everyone feels this . to his temple now in every temple. we have shrouds, the coffin of the lord is a symbol of the coffin. the lord is not so sacred as the altar, the holy fathers call the tomb of the lord yes great saturday. it sums up the fast week, during which

we recalled the last days of the savior's earthly life , especially maundy thursday, when we read 12 gospels in all churches, namely those gospels that tell about the betrayal of judas, about how the lord was left alone, abandoned by his disciples about how did those prophecies come true? which he told his disciples whom it was said in the old testament that he would be crucified on the cross and in 3 days he would rise again. good friday on great day yesterday we just read in the morning, the great clock in all churches, then they took it out to the grave, which mother said in all churches, and in the evening they performed that procession, which does not symbolize a burial. eh, christ, this sad procession of the cross , it will be repeated now, but it will

already be united with the resurrection of christ unusual connection here in the church of the resurrection we will see that it is the procession of the cross, which should be associated with the burial. it simultaneously becomes a symbol of the resurrection by death, a rightful death, the lord died and corrected death with his death. death is the tomb of the lord is the center of life. such an antinomy is amazing, and here we are, before this miracle, the lord tramples death. he takes adam from hell without finding him on earth, as it is said, in the holy saturday prayer, adam is not on earth. he is in hell, the lord does not find him on earth and dies descends into hell and there finds adam the

iconography of the resurrection the lord from hell takes adam by the hand and eve his clothes develop against the backdrop of mondorla such a radiance, the shining lord enters hell. and it's radiance. we will see each other here soon, and this attracts pilgrims very much because of this sacred history, these events. they will develop here right now before our very eyes. it's such an amazing connection. uh, with eternity with god's presence. the lord will now trample on the evil of the evil of the whole world before our eyes. now, uh, the enemy will be defeated right before our eyes and the holy fire will come down. we all very much

hope now there will be a prayer and three times. uh, the procession will bypass the thunder. lord and prayer. it will be a sauer. you see that people say vague words, they are all united into a single soul in such a state that you want to touch the lord, you want to pray. i would like to ask, like these arabs who beat the drums, but quietly in your heart, lord, do not look at our sins this year in the form of blessed fire. do you remember, that when it was from the birth of fiery tongues on the apostles of the trinity that this is the first such manifestation of the blessed fire, the researchers also recall

how moses stood at the burning bush and contemplated. this fire is grace and from there the lord said to the question of moses who are you? lord, he answered. az has a son. i am the bearer of the existing answers us this is now happening in the center of the earth now here we will be connected with us. again, sergey pashkov, we will listen to him, report we welcome the chapel of the tomb from the church of the resurrection in the very center of the ancient city jerusalem, from where the convergence of the illumination of the blessed fire is broadcast on three channels at once, russia 1 channel one and ntv show the apogee

of the ceremony of the descent of the blessed fire. the fire has already arrived in the process of the greek orthodox church of jerusalem members of the holy tropic brotherhood. they went around to the temple with them, the patriarch, the theophilus of jerusalem, arrived, who was in procession. under scarlet banners. he will go around the clock not a coffin three times, then undress and, together with a representative of the armenian apostolic church. will go inside. now they are swollen and sealed with a yellow seal inside. all the lamps have been extinguished, despite the fact that the kubukli is quite crowded, despite the fact that representatives of the local youth arab communities are rattling torbuks, and our faith is chanting with slogans in arabic and aramaic, the right faith is orthodox, despite this crowd in the temple the police were quite spacious and for security reasons allowed only one and a half

thousand pilgrims and believers to attend the ceremony, but despite this , there are representatives of russian foundation andrew the first-called, headed by vladimir yakunin and deputy chairman of the board of trustees petrov kononenko, they will receive the holy fire, lit on the holy sepulcher with a special lamp. they will take her to ben gurion airport. and this means that on the easter bright seven. glasses of blessed fire from the holy sepulcher in jerusalem will shine both in the capital's churches and in small provincial churches. so in the church the lights will soon be extinguished, the congregation is doing the jesus prayer, waiting descent of blessed fire. now we were being shown a large lampada, which the bishop of the isides had brought out. and

now she burns because of it. it will be put on loudly, lord, and the holy fire will also light up. the holy fire appears roughly on the lid, as dew is laid by color groups and then these fleece distribute this fleece soaked with grace from the blue flame that has arisen, then it will light its main bundles. what impressions did you have, mother, when you were at the descent of the holy fire directly next to the purchase, you know, it is impossible to even describe them, what is happening with everyone, that is, the whole people stands in the one soul

, everyone is waiting for fire, and we seem to all merge with each other and remember a lot and are afraid that because of you, a sinner, the fire will not come down this year, because there are so many sins. and you got here. how did you get here among these wonderful kind holy people who came for the blessed fire. one becomes somehow ashamed of one's own soul , imperfect of oneself. and then you understand that the lord forgives you, you stand repenting, remember how much grace you received from god, that is you remember a lot of things. and, of course, you ask for your beloved russia for your motherland, so that everything will be fine in our homeland. and we are the armies of monks. we even walk like warriors, we have such military

attire. so we must pray for the peace of the whole world, and we do this to me and pray in these holy moments. now we call everyone to pray for peace. it is very important now to preserve the iconic image of the earth, how did the lord create our earth, how beautiful is it? what are the unusual flowers of the river? our great russian writer prishvin said that love is written in flowers, that is, our beautiful planet earth is like a book, here the lord wrote everything down . he decorated everything here. we must love. the lord gave us the golden key of the concept of how we should live. we need to love, this is the main thing. i think that this is a common impression even of those people who could not

be near the cuboclia, who were at those services that we just called all of passion week, because these amazing hymns that we heard these special gospel readings. they are not just spiritual symbols. they are precisely a certain contact with eternity. we believe that through worship through the sacrament of the eucharist. we are united with christ also today, during the liturgy of great saturday , a special poimei was read, that is, the old testament reading, which spoke of prophecies about how sunday could happen. what were the examples of this resurrection in the old testament, which were accomplished thanks to prayers. e righteous. e, eliseev, for example, or a special miracle that happened to three

young people who found themselves in the pagan e, five, where they were thrown by the pagan ruler nebuchadnezzar and did not suffer this image of the three youths, it runs like a red thread through e, the worship of our church and in our tradition is such a special symbol of the resurrection of christ, which we of course remember, which we partake of on these special days of grace. and, of course, dressing up is such a future foreshadowing of the resurrection. e priests. here we have seen how the patriarch. uh, go for changing into clothes, but during the liturgy today. this dressing up took place in all churches, not only of bishops, but also of priests, who changed dark clothes from black cuts to white, when, after reading e, the apostle of the apostolic reading before the gospel, the priest already goes out to the

people in white robes. and that, too, is justice. uh, christ's resurrection, which we expect tomorrow. the lord's priests are always in white. they go out after morning from the greek temple of the central tile on the tomb of the lord. e in white robes. right now we see how the entire delegation of priests in these white robes with blue crosses embroidered goes to the holy sepulcher. and these are the colors of all this rude brotherhood, all the priests do not fit when the liturgy is going on and they are in two columns. they stand like that, left and right, during the service near the rude lord. and now, in this, uh, unique sacred minutes, let us recall that only the patriarch enters the tomb of the lord and

the representative of the armenian church enters. now we see the patriarch coming out. he will not commit divine liturgy. now it will be performed already on easter night, and now the procession begins, when all the priests and clergy begin to drink, then about the hymns that we will also sing at night on sunday, save your christ and sing him naturally according to the greek services on the tomb of the lord by the greek patriarchate, of course, takes place in greek. and it is always surprising for pilgrims that the need to be included in another language becomes much and understandable. and very our e, everyone sings both in russian and the gospel after the greek gospel reading in greek

, it is also read in russian. the greek church treats the russian pilgrims and the delegate with such respect. so they have already begun to sing such amazing singing, which has been preserved since ancient times, preserved in the greek church on athos, and, of course, everyone remembers the latest events with which the convergence of the fire is actually connected, when joseph of arimathea came and asked to be killed the body of the savior learning that the saviors had already died on the cross and ordered to give the body, which was iositsa nicotine. they

were members of the drion family, secret disciples of the savior they took. he was buried precisely in one of the new slaves, carved into the rock just at this place. and they brought special fragrances to the shroud, which will be kept with reverence and passed on to generations of christians, if it comes to our days wrapped around this shroud, they covered the body of the savior on a stone, anointed with this tick, and then strengthening him in this, hewn rock, unfold good and picture on them saints. and carry them in a procession among all those walking, we see the patriarch the circle is a symbol of

eternity, therefore the procession is an integral part of many services of the orthodox church. as you can say, it can also be sad processions associated with the burial of the shroud, we perform the same procession when we remember the assumption of the mother’s dormition, too, but many processions are and the triumph of orthodoxy are a symbol, we will already make such a procession tonight and all in the coming week, when in all in our churches, the divine liturgy will necessarily end with a circumambulation. e temples with the accumulation of holy water with the blessing of the cross of all those who pray so that this celebration will be performed. for a whole week, easter will last in this way not a single day. so quietly the

greeks enter and sing chants. prayer and by the vestments we see such a golden headdress, just the patriarch, we can follow him and, uh, the solemn silver staff in his hand. which head we can just recognize that in front of us is the patriarch, he is walking and praying. you see that fathers of their friends recognize their children with home 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 about anything, patriarch. everyone is

watching in prayer. how the procession goes and a certain number of clergy are also allowed to it, but they are also regulated in a certain way. yes, and the greek military is here , we see them by their vestments. that is, here is some kind of chosen guest of the patriarch krug the chosen circle, which together with the servants will bypass the thunder. procession of the lord, kavass go ahead, and we hear how they beat off with metal staffs. this is the traditional way to clear the way. you see how many people and the procession must go. here in the ocean. again we see that there among the patriarchs walking in the depths and with two peaks in the form

of such snakes that guard this braids of the current surrounding passage. it also recalls the path of the e savior in a certain sense, which, as we know, are also present in the holy city in jerusalem, where it actually ends, so the procession for us is a symbol of both the death and resurrection of the savior mother catherine is standing in the left corner, this is the abbot. i am the hearth of a russian monastery. uh, our mother mothers are always traditionally present on the chairs and each and every convergence. fire always visited, mother. georgy shchukin, hegumen of the mountain monastery, who died this year. here again we see the

patriarch. he is focused all withdrawn into himself praying praying to the lord to happen again in this year of the descent of the holy fire he is dressed in precious clothes, as befits the jerusalem patriarch. and prayer must, of course, be internal in the first place, because there is a time for common church services when we get together, but at the same time, there is a tradition in the church, as the savior himself commanded, in order to pray. you must go into your room, close the door behind you, and turn to god in solitude so that they don’t see

you, so that this is your personal communion with christ and this is a silent prayer, inner it must be in the life of every person in the life of every christian, especially such moments when everyone has something to ask for. we have a lot of different insults to the difficulty problem. the lord often sends them to us precisely so that we remember god more often so that we can live our lives. if there were and it was compared with eternity, it is the thought about god that puts many things in our earthly life in their place, and therefore sometimes stop in the frantic rhythm of our life just turn to god by default, to arrive in such silence and loneliness, but it happens, sometimes it is very spiritually useful and gives us

an understanding. a lot of what surrounds us and happens inside of us can be seen 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 lightning. here they are visible to those who are standing. now, on the contrary, the lord is within. our time is really lacking for people of sincere faith, namely

kindness, who hold this world, which is very often filled with self-interest and malice with those bad 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 strive for this, then he very often worms. he very often loses the most important thing and at the same time retains the external human form. he often loses it internally. therefore, this ability and desire of a sincere person to repent of his sins to turn to god is very important in our purely rational rational world, when we are used to everything.