[000:00:00;00] in the program today there is an excursion, during which they will show the most interesting corners of the main building of the pirogov university, well, and now, literally in 15 seconds , our broadcast will begin broadcasting from jerusalem in the temple, the sunday of christ, or, as is customary to hear in the church of the holy sepulcher , the holy fire is expected to converge together with millions of viewers, we are waiting for a miracle, and we. good afternoon, dear viewers , the ntv television company channel one russia 1 and the foundation of the holy sich apostle andrew the first-called

present a live television broadcast the annual ceremony of the convergence of the holy fire today we are leading rita borisovna butova candidate of historical sciences senior researcher at the institute of the russian institute of the history of wounds members of the operator orthodox palestinian society and professor dean of the faculty of history and philology of the orthodox st. tikhon humanitarian university priest andrei pasternak hello hello in addition , the temple is located russian journalist sergei pashkov, whom we will contact later. we're at the top right now today's place on blessed saturday is the church of the holy sepulcher, the church of the resurrection. lord, we now see its inner space a huge dome, under which there is in the coals the place where it happened on the sunday of christ, which we will remember and celebrate tomorrow

almost immediately after it happened on the sunday of christ, it was rebuilt many times. and now what we see is a goblet already in the 19th century, which mark the confixions that are present here, because in the temple the temple is divided between several christian denominations, which, according to a clear schedule, perform divine services here and which will participate in the current ceremony of the convergence of the blessed exchange. well, by the way, you see, now uh, the entrance to the kuvulu and uh is traditionally in accordance with the status quo, ah, the lamps, here are presented only catholic ones in the center, orthodox and in the very uh, bottom, uh, armenian ones, well, surprise now, uh, we do not see, but armenian lamps, but apparently, this is

a decision. eh, the most e armenian after the church. uh, before the repair of the dome in 2016-17, these lamps. there were already people gradually gathering here. this year , certain restrictions have been introduced, about 2,000 people must be allowed into the temple, but obviously here, probably much more people will gather. everyone is gradually coming together. well, we saw in the process with the haruis, and people from different countries are going to bow to the tomb of the lord, the russian delegation, which came, uh, one of the first a represents, we are just seeing it now. this is some lead to what e was e

earlier we see, just with the green armbands of our representatives and at the head and at the head of our delegation , viktor ivanovich yakunin, head of the fund of the all-praised apostle andrew the first-called, we can say that the russian trace is constantly present in this holy place, because russian pilgrims from the very first from time to time, they tried to get into the church of the holy sepulcher in order to put a lamp here so that they could pray here. and now we just see how this tradition

is preserved by our pilgrims. and over the stone of peace with the anointing, we also see those lamps that represent the confessions that are in the temple. well actually in the current ceremony. uh, only four will participate, and not those six, among which the frame is divided, this is the representative of the jerusalem patriarchate, the armenian apostolic church , the syrian church of ikop. well, you see, despite the restrictive measures of pilgrims. uh, quite a lot and eratonda came. everything is filled with people praying and waiting for today's ceremony, which quite emotionally express their feelings, being here, as we see, they are not waving flags and shouting prayers loudly. but in what sense is it 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, in which today, out of 19 bells, eight bells are made in russia, including one of the most important bells that we always hear . when the patriarch walks to the temple, he was specially cast in moscow in 1886 and we also see the colonnades , which are decorated with lamps donated also from by the blessing of the imperial family of alexander ii and empress maria alexandrovna, by the way, these lamps, 100 and the drawing were approved by the patriarch of jerusalem.

uh and i uh, these table lamps were made in st. petersburg and it all cost 8.5 thousand rubles. by the way, yes. you see, again we are being shown a voklu and pilgrims standing next to him, as we have already said, traditionally our delegation is accompanied by russian journalists. now in the temple there is sergey e, pashkov , whom we can now talk to. sergei good afternoon viewers rita borisovna we are now we are in the church of the holy sepulcher directly next to the holy of holies chapel, the sepulcher of the cubocle. it is noisy and loud here, because a few minutes ago a crowd of arab

orthodox youth burst into the temple on the shoulders of each other, rattling in a torbuk. this is a middle eastern drum and exclaiming in arabic our cause is a just orthodox cause , they continue theirs. and they continue this service, which will now turn into the patriarchal cross procession. i think that here in the cube, which is now sealed with yellow wax, and where the patriarch will go out with the extinguished lamps. e theophiles, when he goes there, all this crowd outside will make our prayer , e, a prayer to jesus lord jesus christ , have mercy on me a sinner. i am near the club of glue among the ladles from russia, this is the foundation of st. andrew the first-called, who has already

been to the holy land 21 times in order to take with him to moscow in a lamp a little bit of the blessed lord illuminated by the shot of the lord. fire is fire met at the airport. he is being transported around the russian provincial and in the personal temple, and he will shine today on 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 is about kubuhli dense noisy crowd, but the church of the sepulcher admitted about 3,000 orthodox people from all over the christian world, most of the people who arrived here and went through the procession. rise of rus on good friday. couldn't get inside. since the security measures taken by the israeli police do not allow such pandemonium inside the temple. they are now waiting for ulyanovsk breeds and soon,

probably, in an hour, the fiery river , splashing into the temple, will come out on the streets of jerusalem under the blagovest, and this fire will part from lampada to lampada, from candle to candle, people will thank each other and congratulate. if i wait 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. need more 80 years ago, they tried to lower them to enter the temple, believes that it is not too decent for such a great day on the tree then the holy fire did not descend until the young believers from this

were given the opportunity to shout out and express everything that they wanted and wanted to shout out and express at that moment, as soon as it makes noise, the orthodox arab youth church will plunge into darkness and we will be with reverence and awe. wait for the patriarch in the process, which will end with the descent of illumination on the tomb of blessed fire. thanks a lot, dear sergey and so we welcome our delegation headed by vladimir ivanovich yakunin and apologize. we were worried and at first misrepresented our delegation, but now we are correcting ourselves and want to testify that this is what is happening now, this is really a special event, already in the twenties in a row we are broadcasting our delegations from jerusalem from the church of the resurrection of the lord. they have been here for more than twenty years, so this

russian is present in a sense, too is part of that unchanging status, which is preserved in this temple status. well , in general, of course, uh, this is a concept that hmm the special status of the temple of the resurrection. e, it developed in the middle of the 18th century and since then. here for already soon as two. and for centuries he retains this special status and uh, it's completely hmm unique uh phenomenon in history. uh, when e the temple , in which representatives of different denominations pray, finally could, e, agree and fix e agreements so that wars do not start, so that there are no conflicts, so that there is peace though in the temple itself. and it must be said that this peace was established through the mediation

of the muslim authorities, uh, which in this way. well, in a sense, they tried on among themselves those christians, for whom, of course, the possession of this shrine is, uh, one of the most important. you can say key events. well, this world is still preserved right now on the temple, when repairs are taking place, when they change, uh, like some kind of situation related to and holding divine services. all this happens precisely by a certain agreement between all denominations that are present here and whether we see it like that. ah, the symbol. e harmonization throughout the twentieth century, and she stood tightened metal frame until 2016-17 was completed. her repair. well, by the way,

if you remember, uh, about the rotunda, then we can talk and about the dome. uh, this is generally such one of the most vulnerable places in the temple in general in its long-suffering. e, the persians burned his stories, and destroyed hakim e, mad, and destroyed the natural phenomenon, for example, he was destroyed in 1834 as a result. e earthquakes and uh, the stone vault cracked so much that it almost fell down completely and for 35 years there was such an absolutely wonderful uh, the so-called business, but paid off, which ended. and which ended with the project of two emperors, and here we are now, uh, we see, uh, 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 again shown the pilgrims who are already waiting and preparing for the procession, but, but for now, before the departure of the cross, at some time it must pass until they appear in the jerusalem patriarch. and now let's see with you what was e early in the morning when such an absolutely wonderful ceremony was taking place to

open the door right on sunday. it can be said that this ceremony is just part of the status quo, as we have already said the keys from the temple of the lord, they are stored in one of the uh , important uh and venerable muslim family al-hussein, who received these rights starting from the 12th century from the time of saladin, who captured the virusalim, approaching the entrance to the temple of the lord. uh, they knock first to get permission to enter. as we can see , a special staircase is being installed, and the right to open this door belongs to another , also 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, this is a very famous family of sunni muslims in the middle east, very revered. only in the 20th century , ministers in several countries and diplomats were its representatives. hmm, but in general. eh, it turns out that this is such a work. eh, such a service for the benefit of the temple. eh, this is very, very very important, by the way, the family would come to russia, they were with us in the caucasus and, uh, they really, really liked it, and here is the old musaevs who open adjika, which opens just now these ancient ones, rather ancient castles, and he repeatedly. e, spoke about his love for russian pilgrims and russia. we want to remind you that this is the only one at the moment. the main

entrance since. eh, part of e brother is walled up and you can get into the temple only by the way that pilgrims are now passing through, as we can see, in the morning this crowd has already begun to fill. and everyone passes right by the anointing stone. we're back to live. again we see the goop and wait for the entrance of ram the patriarch of philosophy. patriarch theophilus has a very eastern manner, a very long titulary. his name is his divine beatitude, the patriarch of the color of hagrad, jerusalem and all palestine, syria of arabia, in total for the eordanian of canna of galilee and holy zion, he

has attributed this title since 2005 and is the 141st patriarch of jerusalem. we remind you that we are broadcasting live from jerusalem from the church of the resurrection of the holy sepulcher and we want to thank you. e, channel one russia 1 to the ntv television company for organizing today's television broadcast and, of course, the fund of all the free apostle. pilgrims waiting when they enter the temple, we see they carry bundles of candles, as a rule, in each bundle there are 33 candles according to the number of years of the savior's earthly life , these bundles of candles are precisely. they keep, when 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 with a ladle. 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, turkish army, and now you know we talked a lot in past broadcasts about the fact that the first russian pilgrim who described the descent of the blessed fire was hegumendanil in the 12th 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. gorkinsky women's monastery one of the centers of russian orthodoxy in the holy land located in jerusalem in the area after the opening in the 19th century of a sea connection from russia to the port of yafa, pilgrims began to come to palestine to visit holy places. one of the revered places was the meeting place of the virgin mary with elizabeth. by that time there was already a catholic monastery here, and our pilgrims asked for an overnight stay in the catholic monastery. of course, they were not refused. but it was wrong. the orthodox arabs who lived at that time did not

even have their own parish church. that is why archimandrite antonin kapustin was worried acquisition. on this site of a plot of land , active assistance to father antonin. rendered by pavel petrovich melnikov, a member of the state council and a former minister. 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 uh huge ones. i would say in size the largest plot on the land of the warriors in 1871. the land was framed. after what here? an arab community appeared, and then a russian community father antonin proposed an unusual solution for her devices. he wanted our orthodox pilgrims, but mostly

they were widows, and nuns 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 set up. e, around the houses near the plot of land to 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 was consecrated in 2012 and the second temple was the cathedral of all saints in the russian land of russia. every year thousands of pilgrims come here to pray to feed and tell 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. well , of course, the most important thing, for us. this is a prayer prayer in the holy land. today, in difficult times, pilgrims and sisters of the monastery say about the fact that russia's connection with the holy land 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 very responsible live. this obedience is very responsible. we realize this before god, before the russian orthodox church, before all the pilgrims who come here, the gorninsky monastery, created with the participation of thousands of orthodox, has survived difficult times and has retained its originality and rightfully is the pearl of russian orthodoxy in the holy land. and when they come to the monastery.

we see that people with such joy and such trepidation enter the holy land. they are so grateful for everything. it even seems to us that there is nothing to be thankful for. it's the same usually. and to feed, to meet, and to 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. uh, she blesses, and they feel, uh, inexpressible joy and gratitude. e not only to the lord 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, maybe even completely and, uh, not deserved. we return to the temple of the resurrection and involuntarily comes a mountain comparison - this is a place, joy and motherhood, the birth of a baby, the birth of new souls and

kuvulya, which we now see the pre-day bed of death. and here , quite often, we m-m show us. e the southern part of the ratunda, which belongs to the armenians today. uh, under the stairs to the gallery is placed here, a marble kevorium on four columns, this is the place where, according to the legend 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 near the place of execution of the savior . associated, of course, with the resurrection. e savior. this week we have been remembering

the special days when the lord set foot on the path of suffering. he rebuked the pharisees for the formalism they had denounced people who were hypocrites and calls. his earthly life and in those last days, when he was still with his disciples during divine services, starting from the beginning. the parable is those words that the lord last addressed to his disciples to his followers and, in fact, starting from wednesday. we have already embarked on the path that leads to the current event to the current place connected. this was, of course, from the last meeting of the savior at the last supper

with the disciples, when he left that commandment that all christians must observe the commandment is associated with the infliction of the holy mysteries of christ and the participation of the liturgy. in the evening. on thursday. we read 12 gospels connected with the suffering of his savior in the betrayal of judas with how he remained alone , abandoned, even by his own, his closest disciples and memories. here is not the right judgment that was over him committed yesterday with good friday. we already recalled, in fact, those crucifixions, the sufferings to which he underwent in this holy place on calvary, these sufferings. of course, they cannot be transmitted by human language, and therefore precisely through worship, through that mystery which the holy church abhors to us. we

can touch this present place. it is, of course, saturated with these special graces of these sufferings that the savior endured. well, as we know, godfather putin is now preserved in jerusalem. that is, here the path that the savior traveled, before he was crucified, he carried a cross on his shoulders. and being. which the holy church remembers, and after the crucifixion of the body of the savior, it was removed and laid in a new tomb. we know that nicodemus joseph, uh, like the disciples of the mystery , they came in order to bury their

teacher and, in fact, lay the body in a coffin. they overwhelmed him with memories of just how it happened, and now a little earlier it happened, there was a seal of great wax sadness, which is placed on this one , and now we see how the representatives of the muslims, who open the temple, are on this seal. on this seal they must also put their testimonies. seals is the ancient name for this seal of the custodian and it is commonly used to refer to something that cannot be opened. up to a certain point, according to legend, it is thick, where it is made of wax, on which

40 liturgies were previously performed. is it so difficult for us to verify now, but we believe that wax is a specially prepared wax that seals the savior . here we see how the wax is here. now we bring it to the entrance, just to this limit of the angel, where the divine liturgy is usually performed just on a special stone e, the cover, which actually marked here the stone that was laid on e, the place of entry , those frames that 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 put guards on the coffins and made stones. and, uh, that that representatives of, uh, families that keep the keys. they affix this seal. farisa, they did not believe in sunday saviors, so the guard that was installed in front of the tomb should also testify that 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, after giving them money, they spread the rumor that the body of the saviors was lost. we, unfortunately, cannot

see, but e the entrance from the limit of the angel to the cave of the lord's tomb. today it is decorated with a marble portal and on the left at the entrance are the wives of the world rushing and on the right, archangel gabriel stretching out his hand to them and at the top of the marble portal, a marble canopy with an inscription in greek of his use of the word angel. what looking for the living among the dead him here? no, he was resurrected and in order to join the mystery of sunday, as we said, many representatives of different faiths gather here in the temple in a sense. on the sunday of christ, it unites christians who do not have liturgical communion with each other in real earthly life . and now we can see. uh, records of how representatives

of these denominations came, uh, to the temple some time ago. now we see how a delegation of the armenian church enters the temple. which according to the status quo, they also have certain limits, within which they perform their services according to a certain schedule , as we know, services are performed on the lord’s grotto, and the armenian apostolic church belongs to a part of the cry, which is located near the savior’s health and now we see the option with us now was a happy opportunity to see. e kavasov. uh, in the clothes in which they, uh, came back in the nineteenth century, it’s difficult, it happens sometimes.

let's go to church on the sunday of christ is not so easy because of the restrictive measures that were accepted today. and this is just the delegation of the armenian church. i didn't look at first. yes, first there were now the armenian church. yes, and they have kavass uh already in the form that is accepted in jerusalem well, in the last about 30 years they have switched from their national clothes to such more europeanized clothes, retaining only uh, fezzes and heavy staffs, which i as i understand it, it can also get some careless pilgrims. yes, and it hurts a lot, especially when this staff hits the leg, and now, when we sometimes talking hmm what role do they play about you? and that they are absolutely nominal. this is not entirely true,

because they still work together with the israeli security services. a few years ago, we talked in great detail about the vasses, 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 confession who comes to the temple has a certain 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 temple on sunday. eh, the lord's and we are

waiting for the arrival of the patriarch theophilus, who apparently delayed that in the 19th century. uh those problems that were sometimes between representatives of different faiths. they just proceeded from the fact that the jackets of the syrians are armenians orthodox or catholics. uh, wanted to start those restrictions that have there were and it called that call, certain hmm fight moods. even this also happened to bleed. well, now you see happy emotional conversations, but for sure, it's just a conversation. uh, it’s about, uh, who will participate in the procession, it’s clear that the expectation of this

event is what it calls for is part of in a sense , the life that turns out to be e for the current pilgrim, because in order to to participate in this ceremony, of course, everyone expresses a fool in their own way, joy, and, of course, the most famous such. it can be said that part of this ceremony is arabic, which we know the convergence of the holy fire never takes place.

we see them so emotional. an emotional entrance, when they hold crosses, wave bunches of candles on armbands in special t-shirts, they loudly shout that our lord jesus christ is the true god , completely, of course, unusually incomprehensible for our calmer moderate mentality, but nonetheless. this is also part that ritual, without which the ascension of fire does not occur. well, in general, russian pilgrims. they were always surprised when they participated in the flying of the holy fire when they saw it. eh, these are, and the prayers of the arab orthodox e people and e. yes, we know, now we already know that they sing, that they are the most eastern most orthodox, that they live where you go, the sun, that they bring candles with them for you to burn. holy fire is not

prayed to the mother of god to george the victorious, who is very revered in the east. well, when this, well, it often happened that russian pilgrims a little with you looked uh at these dances, forgetting about the dances of david excuse me in front of the ark, but you know here i would like to recall the words of my father. e, antonina, e, 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 e in the middle east e other, believing other christians who are not like us in anything except for one image

such a human name of a christian. this is a very beautiful perception, it seems to me, well, this is another evidence that christians are all over the world. everyone is famous in their own way, the lord is not at all easy in the east, who keep the orthodox faith , they also had one of the video stories of past years. now we hear, uh, the chimes of the bell and this is usually the harbinger of entry. patriarch's philosophy well, for now we continue to be shown as pilgrims. with what joy they, having passed several cordons, fall on

square and and enter the temple. as a rule, the patriarcheophile who networked, e, leaves the temple, james the brother of the lord where is the jerusalem patriarchate, e, and where does the sixth actually begin in the church of the resurrection of the lord, this temple is a parish, just for the orthodox arabs of jerusalem and good friday from it , e, passes very touching, uh, the procession and uh, the patriarch of ethiopia, leaving the greek patriarchate, passes by his house constantine goes down the stairs and, uh, goes to the square in front of the temple. we have so far

no. we know that there were no disciples left at the cross of the lord, but the women of his mother of the mother of god and some others remained, among whom was mary magdalene yes and here is one of the wives whose myrrh-bearers were addressed, e words of an angel, that you are looking for the living among the dead he is not. here he was resurrected just mary magdalene let's see the prepared plot. lake of galilee is one of the iconic places of biblical scripture here jesus christ called the first disciples preached laid the foundation for miracles from signs close by faith at the foot of the mountain

arbel is located russian compound named after the holy apostle mary magdalene in the courtyard of the magdalene - this is generally our pride, it is located next to the ancient makda. and in general, i say archaeological excavations, which produced everything around our farmstead and on our territory , indicate that this place was inhabited as early as 3,500 years bc, it is always interesting to observe their reaction. everyone comes and gets excited. i was impressed just that in general being here here is the power of prayer, how as if more than the metochion itself was acquired by archimandrite leonid sentsov in 1909. the choice of location when buying the land was not accidental - the ancient city of magdala - this is the birthplace of the apostle mary magdalene. and the place where this metochion is located , according to legend, is associated with an episode of the healing of mary magdalene, when the lord

knew from her the family of pure spirits in the sixties of the xx century. in the compound , a small temple was built, dedicated to the most equally apostolic and trembling myrrh-bearing wife. messengers. sunday mary magdalene it is painted with frescoes by the famous icon painter. yaroslav dobryanin on the territory there are several sources, three of them are fresh , the rest are mineral some of them are radon in these sources. you can swim. an ancient tradition calls one of the sources the source of mary magdalene bathing, it is revered as healing among, and the healing eye source is also revered in the year. the courtyard is visited by about 6-7 thousand people, for their accommodation not far from the cloisters there is a hotel belonging to the russian spiritual mission and ready to accept for visitors, the building itself is of historical value; it was built

by the crusaders in the 14th century. today. the backyard is a big farm. the farmstead - it lives like a monastery, there is an older sister who is responsible for the life of this farmstead and sisters who carry out prayer deeds and, of course, we try to have volunteers from russia come to help them from belarus yes, and generally speaking russian speakers from all over the world. uh, orthodox believers who want to work under the courts gladly accept those who want to help the monastery labor. well, personally, i get up at 5:30 at 6:00. i am already leaving obedience. the day begins with the fact that we are going to give space. we have goats with very beautiful long ears. uh, further we have uh, who has what kind of obedience someone sweeps the main staircase. it could be cleanup. it could be bush cutting and the guys are mowing the grass. the spectrum is big,

that is, posada did something in some construction work. a small part of the workers themselves say that although the days in the compound are devoted to physical labor and sometimes there are heavy grace that fills the soul gives 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 simply, because, well, of course, you just walk it, somehow very calmly. even though we are all tired in the evening. sometimes it even happens that you just want to crawl to the bed, go to bed and that's it. but this is a pleasant fatigue here , a feeling of peace and joy with the joy that you, well, just sweep the leaves, plant flowers, communicate with animals. i am here myself

feel happy, well, that's for real. the plot we see how the most patriarchalist goes to the square in front of the church of the resurrection of the lord, we now see him on the screen. yes, a shocking cross was carried ahead of him. a-a helmet hmm hieromonks monks archimandrites members of the svyatogorsk brotherhood. and this is, apparently, the most, uh, the most. significant pilgrims from greece or some other countries, the patriarch also enters the temple, uh, and past the anointing stone, uh, passes into the kofalekon for re-clothing. he must put on, and completely in e. there resnik wear comfort in which he will remain during the ceremony

of the holy fire, that is , uh . although, of course, it is not part of the liturgy, nevertheless, the patriarch dresses in full, as during the service. and we will see, i understand that he will change clothes in white clothes, yes, because today is holy saturday in all the churches where it was performed. uh, the divine service of holy saturday we performed the liturgy of basil great, and just there was a change of clothes from black clothes. in white, just exactly, this white liturgical attire will be. now she is patriarcheophilia. now we see how he goes to the temple and will go to the greek part

of the coffee shop. no more is the part where the actual orthodox greek liturgy is performed and should be approached with the blessing of the representatives of the confessions who participate in the ceremony. and sometimes it so happened that the patriarch had to wait when, uh, representatives of different faiths came to him, uh, and uh, not always not always. it was fast just like here, uh, the pilgrims are now uh, waiting froze in anticipation of the start of the procession , the kavass reached the ukli, and uh, they are trying to hmm somehow, uh, expand the space in order to, uh, procession, which it will go around three times so that it is still convenient to pass and there are no big problems. it must also be said

that the action that we are now seeing, it is special. e, already established throughout. not just centuries of many e centuries, because the volume of e went down. uh, from the earliest times, the most varied pilgrims, not only orthodox, but also catholic and muslim, testified to the holy light of fire. uh, witnesses who confirmed that we ate the light on the tomb of the lord. one of the earliest and first such testimonies is the testimony of church history, the liabilities of which he recounted, when one day there was not enough oil for the patriarch. uh, the marquis blessed the lamps. e, the waters of the selamic font and

the fire descended from the sky, which or then in continuation of the entire paschal service, the testimony that he left not in syria is one of the very first, which happened precisely on the tomb of the lord that there was a hot lamp on the tomb of the lord, and the roman pilgrim igeria of the same time of the 4th century testified when she talks about this , that is, for more than one and a half thousand years. eh, there is evidence that e light e on the tomb of the lord during the blessed saturday appeared in a special way today. we are quite often already the same as in our previous broadcasts. uh, talking about what that's about the first n breakdowns that recorded how he was present at the origin of the holy fire was in 1100 the seventh year, he had his pilgrimage then.

it was a year and it was clear. because the path uh from russia to palestine was uh, very, very difficult, especially, uh, there were wars and uh, he had to overcome uh, he had a lot in the holy land. out of those three years. he spent only half a year almost a winter and, uh, returned hmm returned to russia almost immediately after easter well, please note that uh pilgrims uh a lot of. right now we see many male pilgrims. in general, and the face of a russian pilgrimage pilgrim is still a woman’s face, and also, as in the 19th century, as well as in the last 20 years, pilgrimage groups are eighty percent, but

they consist of women, a prayer for this country, for peace, for russia, for a family, for children. and they must have been very good. and the aforementioned pilgrim daniel left a hot lamp on the tomb of the lord, again there are legends that the lamp that we will soon see, which will be set on like, lord, it 's just the one that he put here for the first time during his midnight. you know, modern uh, historians, have come to the conclusion that, otherwise, the love and respect that he received before her uh, uh, received in jerusalem, and hmm , he was the first baldwin king of jerusalem, he was also connected with the fact that shortly before him in

jerusalem egidogradovna died. the first russian noble hmm pilgrim who arrived. from novgorod came arrived 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 , as you compare the facts, it is surprising that a few years after the death, the guides are goralds and very friendly. e hegumen daniel e received the king of jerusalem. a well, just like uh, after only 60 years. uh, she arrived in the holy land, and in russia, not a polatian at all, uh, wonderful uh,

a saint who is very especially revered u in belarus although she is called the mother of the female monasticism in russia and by her order, and was made on the throne cross, in which there were hmm, er, unique religions. well, these are snippets. e cross of christ stone. tombs of the mother of god as a great regret. this cross has been lost. he is the years of the great patriotic war and, so far, has not yet been found. and she also died in jerusalem in a russian convent. unfortunately, historians still cannot understand what kind of russian nunnery it was, but i hope that further study will somehow will shed some light on the mystery of where he was and, uh,

who founded him? and, of course, we return to the howls. we want to say that this is the only chapel that bears exactly this name in the world, because uh, uh , the royal box, where our lord jesus christ rests. and this is a special place, special holy kings, the reigning lord of lords was buried here and here he is also a sunday man from a dead device. the coffin is a carved food, which was said to be the limit of the angels in front of it, that is, the place where the myrrh-bearing angel appeared to the women

who came in order to anoint the body with the savior they are visible. they did not realize the end that the lord would rise on the third day. although he spoke about this during his earthly e life and it was here that his stone was rolled away, now we see how the seal is being removed, just the sign of how this happened and in the limit of the angel’s own divine service is being performed now, and the tomb of the lord itself will enter the patriarch and his phil in order to receive the holy fire. by the way, speaking, in some uh, russian churches, we see how the mochek. eh, how can you buy it, and it will be your kind of

eulogia in memory of the holy land. and this is hmm. this is the clothes of the jerusalem church. and when our, uh, priests come to the holy land, they usually serve, uh, in such clothes. well, you see, beautiful cavities that are waiting or with tufts. candles yes, we saw. right now, the priests of the archimandrites, there should be 12 of them in number. e apostles, they are clothed yes in clothes that e are clothes of greek cut, the so -called greek will be filoni, which are traditional. here, russian orthodox priests do not wear e, well, or they wear some special occasions, but they are clearly preparing for the beginning of the procession. in 2020, and in

the time of qaida, we could watch the patriarch put on clothes, and it was clear to us what was happening. and now we are forced only to wait and uh and not see then we were then we were sad that there were no ee believers in the temple. and today we are experiencing what is happening. now everyone is waiting for the lamp and already preparing to open the gates of the angels limit will. ah, every year , the elder from the kyophylax brings this lamp from the altar of the temple resurrection to the cuvuklu. uh, speaking in russian

, carve the church of tsvetogruppa, and today it is the archbishop and the yaropol cider, uh, who is very well known, uh, by many russian pilgrims, he treats pilgrims from russia with uh, warmth and love. but while we are waiting, while we are waiting, as long as the lamps have not brought their groups , the player continues to remain closed. the peace-bearer who were, uh, at the tomb they were obviously confused. they did not know when they saw the resurrected. christ they 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 their 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 for them, because it was very heavy , the stone on which the divine liturgy. and now there is a stone here, which signifies the stone that was rolled away from the tomb. and the peace-bearers, being in front of the tomb, as well as many pilgrims. they, uh, were apparently in some kind of expectation of the miracle that could uh happen here. but the miracle of sunday saviors is the main sacrament that changes the world, because we know that on the sunday of christ it gives forgiveness of sin, it gives a person a new life and the resurrection of christ - this is the main event that leads us to eternal life. now we will turn to sergei

pashkov in order to understand what is happening now next to the kuvukley. 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 they appeared, and bright red crimson festive banners, the time by which, e, the patriarchal processes three times, will go around, led by the most blessed patriarch jerusalem, and only after that the sealed holy of holies of the lord's sepulcher will be opened and the primates of the greek orthodox church of jerusalem will enter there, followed by the cleric of the armenian evangelical church of the apostolic church, and they will close from the inside , prayer will begin with the lamps extinguished and

thousands of people who have gathered today under the vaults of the temple will repeat the prayer of jesus. lord jesus christ, have mercy on us, because , as you, remember, according to the belief of the athonite elders , if the mambrian spirit dries up and armor, if grace does not come down in jerusalem. fire on great saturday, it will come, the end of the world. this belief gives a special thrill and a special acute emotion to the moment of expectation, for which tens of thousands of peasants have come to jerusalem to court. orthodox christians all over the world from greece, russia, georgia , belarus and many many other countries, russian speech is heard quite clearly today. uh, there is a fund here, st. andrew the first-called, which will receive a lamp with the holy fire and the chairman of the fund. vladimir yakunin will go with him to moscow

, this fire will shine already at the patriarchal service in the church of the sepulchers. carried out christ the savior the lampada begins responsibility and the most mysterious part of the ceremony is now the lampada will be placed on the coffin after which the door, huh? the chapel of the tomb will close again and the procession will begin three times. they will go around google and a growing troparion that sounds in our ear of a russian believer as oriental chanted and slow ; we will soon see. it's in our broadcast from the organization, to which we again thank the first channel and channel russia 1 and ntv thank you sergey thank you

very much. we now have the opportunity to see the lampada already close-up; it is, one might say, the key instrument of the instruments 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 have already lined up in the cafelecon, and as soon as the procession begins, in fact, the main thing is part of today's elite. and i think that m-m prayerful the mood and the power of prayer, both in the temple and in the monasteries of the holy land a russia a.

she, uh, will increase in order for hmm and the lord to show his will. here flying is also one of the names. and those prayers that are performed, well, western traditions like our ichthies, in fact, they are like that, that is, flying, just like special prayers that the whole church lifts up after the clergy and priests. in the doll, no one, except lax , entered e, he will put now, uh, a lamp on three days' bed and will come out. and we are waiting for the patriarch to come out on that insipid procession, which in all our churches was already performed yesterday

evening or even at night, when they surrounded the shroud with an image three times. eh, lord, but this procession will already be from the banner. on the sunday of christ, because we will sing uh, there will be uh prayers that we will perform tonight already in the second chair, praying really not quite, familiar to us with the first greek cut. which actually will already be proclaimed, the upcoming easter in jerusalem from the birth of the holy fire is perceived already. actually, as the accomplished easter, everyone immediately begins to congratulate each other. with the resurrection of christ and, uh, russian pilgrims, when

they came for them at the beginning, it was surprising, but then they fell under uh, this one, but all the general euphoria. eh, the feast of the descent of the blessed fire and eh, very often eh, they forgot that the easter service. we are yet to come. here we see the members of our e delegation of the delegation of the st. andrew the first-called e, in anticipation of the start the surrounding passage, for which we are now preparing everything yet. we have not yet mentioned the monks of the svoitov, who are also obligatory participants in the ceremony and the descent of the blessed fire , these are the monks from the lavra of st.

by the way, abbot daniel also wrote, that is, from ancient times - this tradition existed. now everyone is silent in reverent anticipation of this time when indeed, all the believers who are in the kuvukli are trying to focus on prayer, being aware of the special event that happened in this place, which awaits us . we can already say tonight if we are talking about an astronomical day, but already on the tomb of the lord sense begins earlier, because the fire is already a sign symbol 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 representative of the orthodox church. and uh, they even have they change, the total number and how they cost. this is also completely unchanged and enters into the same one. here we are waiting. uh, the beginning of the religious procession, the procession is still in no way. uh, it didn't start, the coffin was sealed, taped again. and i would like

to remember one more thing about what, mm, in june. e hmm this year will be 140 years old. e the opening of the threshold of judicial rights, these gates were found as a result of excavations by archimandrite antonym and the vessel has a gate called, because near them the roman official read out the final sentences, the condemned and the brothers could stop the procession for the last time. when, suddenly, there was someone who would declare that he had new facts demanding that they could help stop the execution, and on that only day in history when christ crossed the vice of judgment frates voluntarily, taking upon himself the sins of all mankind, there was no one in jerusalem

who wanted or dared to say a word in favor of the unseen condemned. and here we are we see the dome with you. ah, the dome of the ratunda. uh, she hmm not so long ago only with in this visible people only know since 1997, and when the inner surface, uh, received the golden star was decorated in the form of triple glory, 12 large petals, 24. small sharp rays, as if superimposed on the lower great glory and above them a short cylinder of a drum, decorated with golden stars and an eye through which light passes. russian pilgrims, when they described the convergence of the blessed fire hmm uh

, always noted this silence with invariance, which, e, was installed in the temple, and and e before e, the beginning of the procession, and especially at the moment when the patriarch e 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 incredibly, many of the disciples did not believe on the sunday of christ, despite the testimonies left to them by the myrrh-bearers and the wastelander, the beloved disciple of the savior

, only when the lord himself appeared to the disciples, when they secretly gathered in fear from the jews, only then did they already believe that they see not a ghost, but a living god and a man who was resurrected in the flesh, who could eat and drink before them, confirming by this that he was resurrected in real flesh only after that their faith was strengthened only after that they already will begin their preaching all over the world after the apparitions. christ after his ascension and after the lord leaves them this special commandment to preach the word of god and baptize the whole world in the name of father and son and holy spirit. by the way, speaking this year e is a holiday. e. intercession will be 135. years from the day of the consecration of the church of mary magdalene in gethsemane about a poor church built by the imperial family in memory of empress maria alexandrovna

, who worked very hard for russian palestine as a heavenly patron, who, as once there was equal-to-the-apostles mary magdalene , one of the myrrh-bearing wives. well, there lies the relics, especially revered, er, the reverend martyr grand duchess elizabeth feodorovna, who worked very hard in the holy land, thanks to which, er, a lot was done by the imperial palestinian society. and who accepted a martyr's death in russia and in a special way her e, the remains of the body were transferred here as well. although, of course, it was not originally intended. well in general its a palestinian society this year uh, many hmm anniversaries, and these are such anniversaries associated with people

who are people who worked in the holy land, and who worked either personally came to help or, uh, worked thanks to, uh, those, uh, with the buildings that were built here i wanted to i would like to remember, uh, about maria mikhailovna kiseleva. this absolutely wonderful philanthropist from penza will be celebrating 225 years since her birth this year, and it’s surprising that her charity covered both russia, the holy land and athos and the island of crete, she worked hard, she was in the balkans of mesopotamia but of course, the most significant gift of maria mikhailovna to the holy land was the church of the savior on the mountain by the overthrow at dawn. and uh, it was

n't built for a russian spiritual mission. not for russia, not for the synod, it was built for those very poor orthodox, uh, arabs who lived there and, uh, russian pilgrims always came to this temple, when they came to nazareth for the annunciation, they always visited it, but with uh -e maria mikhailovna kiseleva e, one more is connected. uh, the temple is greek church, er, holy prophet elisha in ca. jericho. in general, she remained e in history with her largest donations, and more than 100,000 rubles. poor orthodox in bulgaria and greece palestine 50.000 russian

spiritual mission. here we see the patriarch blesses the procession begins but in general, uh, returning to marina mikhailovna uh, we can say that the scale of her benevolence to the holy land is unique and uh, has no analogues at all, since she spent her uh, personal m-m funds and uh , to be honest, volume her financial beneficence he uh exceeds uh, the beneficence of the imperial family and uh, i know that in retirement she is very uh, they revere uh. i hope that someday e maria mikhailovna will be numbered in the century of saints, because her prayer. uh, reverence in penza is very, very far away. it is amazing how many russian orthodox pilgrims ended up in the holy land and in past times and now many

people flock here, in order to go out special moments to turn to god with a prayer, because here is the procession that is now beginning, it marks a lot, starting. oh, also the path that the royal path, 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 the hated risk, branches were spread, palm trees, according to tradition, are a sign of that that e came, finally the king, and now only some time passes a few days and there is no one at the judgment gate to intercede for the saviors, several days pass and already the crazy crowd screams, that is, we remember