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Tens of thousands of Christians around the world are praying these days for the descent of the Holy Fire on the pre-Easter Great Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
According to Christian tradition, the Holy Fire miraculously appears in Kuvuklia - the chapel above the Holy Sepulcher. Its convergence takes place annually on the eve of the holiday. Orthodox Easter.
Live broadcast of the convergence of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem 2017 will be intcbatch available on the web.
The Holy Fire will be delivered to our country by the delegation of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation, which in 2017 included the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
Descent of the Holy Fire 2017
The convergence of the Holy Fire in 2017 will take place in the renovated chapel of Kuvuklia, which was restored for about a year. During the repair, for the first time in 500, scientists removed the marble slab covering the burial bed of Christ and studied it.
The Holy Fire symbolizes the miraculous light of the Resurrection of Christ, about which the Apostle Peter spoke. This fire appears in Kuvuklia every year precisely on the eve of Orthodox Easter, thanks to the prayers of the Orthodox clergy and tens of thousands of pilgrims in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and at its walls.
However, the debate continues in society about whether the convergence of the Holy Fire is an annual miracle or simply a traditional Easter religious rite of the Jerusalem Church.
At noon, a procession to the Holy Sepulcher begins from the Jerusalem Patriarchate, ending in front of the entrance to Kuvuklia. A large lampada is brought into it, in which a fire should ignite, and 33 candles (according to the number of years of the Savior's earthly life).
The Patriarch of Jerusalem traditionally enters the Kuvukliya in one linen cassock, so that it can be seen that he does not carry matches or anything else with which to make fire. After that, the entrance to the chapel is sealed, and a period of tense waiting for the convergence of the blessed fire begins.
According to popular tradition, if the fire does not descend, it will be a terrible omen for all mankind, and those who are in the temple will die.
Waiting for a miracle lasts from several minutes to several hours. At this time, the lights are extinguished in the temple, and the faithful hold unlit Easter eggs (large holiday candles) in their hands. People pray, repent of their sins and ask the Lord to grant the Holy Fire. According to eyewitnesses, after some time, inexplicable flashes of light appear in the temple, which seem to flow down the walls and columns, and a vertical wide column of light descends from the hole in the dome of the temple onto the Holy Sepulcher.
Soon, a blessed fire appears in Kuvuklia, the patriarch comes out of the cave and passes the fire from candle to candle to the people gathered in the temple. It is noteworthy that at first the Holy Fire does not burn when touched, RIA Novosti notes.
Descent of the Holy Fire VIDEO
The Holy Fire descends once a year in Jerusalem on Orthodox Easter. The convergence takes place on Great Saturday (April 15, 2017) in Kuvuklia, in the chapel inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. For two thousand years now, Christians who have celebrated their main holiday - the Resurrection of Christ (Easter) in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, have witnessed the miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire.
Talking about inexplicable things in the courtyard of this Temple, where all roads lead, is a common thing. It is on its territory that the main Christian shrines are concentrated - the place of execution, burial and resurrection of the Savior.
According to legend, the annual mysterious burning of fire in the Holy Land is a sign of God's mercy, which notifies the care of the Lord and gives believers hope that God prolongs the existence of the world for another year. AT different years the wait lasts from five minutes to several hours.
The prayer of tens of thousands of Christians for the descent of the Holy Fire will take place on the pre-Easter Great Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The Holy Fire is considered a symbol of God's blessing to the human race. It is carried by pilgrims throughout the Orthodox world. The fire will be delivered to Russia by a delegation from the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation, which in 2017 included the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
The convergence of the Holy Fire in 2017 date time where to watch
The convergence of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem will be broadcast on television. On Russian TV live this great miracle will be shown by the NTV channel. In accordance with the TV program, the beginning of the live broadcast of the convergence of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem will take place on NTV at 13:15 Moscow time.
On Ukrainian television, the convergence of the Holy Fire will be broadcast by the Inter channel, the broadcast will start at 12:45 (local time).
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When will the Holy Fire 2017 arrive in Russia?
The delegation of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation will deliver the holy fire to Russia in special lamps, made according to the model of the “Olympic”, by a special flight from Jerusalem to Moscow. Everyone will be able to receive a particle of the Holy Fire right at the Vnukovo-1 airport, where the plane from the Holy Land will land, presumably at 22.00 Moscow time. The Holy Fire will be brought to many cities in Russia, as well as to Russian parishes abroad.
During the Bright Week (the first week after Easter), the Holy Fire can be received at the foundation's office in Moscow at 42 Pokrovka, building 5 (from 9.00 to 18.00). Those who wish must have their own lamps.
The descent of the Holy Fire how it happens
In our time, the descent of the Holy Fire occurs on Great Saturday, usually between 13 and 15 o'clock Jerusalem time.
Approximately one day before the start of Orthodox Easter, a church ceremony begins. To see the miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire, people have been gathering at the Holy Sepulcher since Good Friday; many people stay here immediately after the procession, which is performed in memory of the events of this day. By ten o'clock in the afternoon of Holy Saturday, all candles and lamps in the entire huge architectural complex of the Temple are extinguished. In the middle of the bed of the Life-Giving Sepulcher, a lamp is placed, filled with oil, but without fire. Pieces of cotton wool are laid out throughout the bed, and a tape is laid along the edges.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built on the site where the Tomb of Jesus Christ was. This is where the Holy Fire appears. In a crowd of pilgrims, it is difficult to calculate the distance from Calvary to the last bedchamber of Christ, but it is 33 steps, which is equal to the years of Jesus' earthly life.
Moreover, each believer has 33 candles. Those who did not take care of them in advance are forced to buy them directly in the temple from the monks three times more expensive.
In turn, the guards check the chapel, lock the door with a key and put a seal, which means that there is no source of fire inside.
Meanwhile, young Arab Christians, sitting on each other's shoulders, are loudly stirring up emotions in the crowd. According to legend, in the year when Arab youths were banned from hooliganism in the temple, the fire lingered for several days. So, young Arabs can now do whatever they want in the temple.
According to tradition, two clergy go inside the chapel. The hierarchs remain in very simple robes without belts. This is due to the fact that when the Holy Land belonged to the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish guards could not believe in the miracle of Fire, they carefully checked the belts so that matches were not hidden there. Now the function of verification has been inherited by Israeli policemen, who, moreover, take care that representatives of two competing faiths do not begin to sort things out.
Shortly before the patriarch, the sacristan (assistant sacristan - head of church property) brings a large lamp into the cave, in which the main fire and 33 candles should flare up - according to the number of years of the Savior's earthly life.
Only after this, the patriarch enters Kuvukliya and prays on his knees.
After the patriarch enters Kuvuklia, the entrance is sealed, and the expectation of the miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire begins.
The removal of the Easter fire symbolizes the exit from the Tomb of the “True Light”, that is, the resurrected Jesus Christ. After the service, inside Kuvuklia (the Chapel above the Holy Sepulcher), light appears, bells ring out in the temple. Burning bunches of candles appear from the windows of Kuvuklia, served by the Greek Patriarch and the Armenian archimandrite. From their candles, the fire is lit by the walkers, after which the fire quickly spreads through the temple.
Pilgrims leave notes with Best wishes. When the fire goes down, in the first few seconds it leaves no burns.
Following the conversation in the blog topic, I decided to search a little for information from various sources, but what do they promise if the Holy Fire does not come down?
First, about the origin of the event.
“There are references to the descent of heavenly fire in the Old Testament. There are described several cases when the Lord sent fire from heaven as a sign that the sacrifice was pleasing to him, that he accepts it. In the days of the New Testament, the very first information about the descent of the Holy Fire is found in Gregory of Nyssa, Eusebius and Sylvia of Aquitaine. They date from the 4th century. Although there are earlier references. According to the testimony of the Apostles and Holy Fathers, the uncreated Light illuminated the Holy Sepulcher shortly after the Resurrection of Christ. This was seen by one of the apostles - Peter. However, no specific date can be given. One can only say that the Fire began to descend from the time of the first Christians, and this is more than two thousand years ago.
By this miracle, the Lord, as it were, confirms the benevolence, the grace of God towards people. This is when God favors us, our prayers, our repentance.
It is extremely important whether the Holy Fire descends or not, because its descent is a symbol of the fact that life will continue, that God has blessed mankind. ”
There were three cases of non-convergence of fire.
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In 1101, on Holy Saturday, the miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire in Kuvuklia did not take place until Eastern Christians were invited to participate in this rite. Then King Baldwin I took care of the return of local Christians of their rights.
- On Holy Saturday 1579, Orthodox Patriarch Sophronius IV with the clergy was not allowed into the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. They stood in front of the closed doors of the Temple from the outside. The Armenian clergy entered Kuvukliya and began to pray to the Lord for the descent of Fire. But their prayers were not answered.
standing by closed doors Temple Orthodox priests also turned to the Lord with prayers. Suddenly, a noise was heard, the column, located to the left of the closed doors of the Temple, cracked, Fire came out of it and lit candles in the hands of the Jerusalem Patriarch. With great joy, the Orthodox priesthood entered the Temple and glorified the Lord. Traces of the convergence of Fire can still be seen on one of the columns located to the left of the entrance.
According to traditions that have taken root over 2,000 years, the obligatory participants in the sacrament of the descent of the Holy Fire are the abbot, the monks of the Lavra of St. Savva the Sanctified, and local Orthodox Arabs.
On Holy Saturday, half an hour after the sealing of Kuvuklia, Arab Orthodox youth, shouting, stomping, drumming, sitting on top of each other, breaks into the Temple and starts singing and dancing. There is no evidence of the time when this ritual was established. The cries and songs of Arab youth are ancient prayers in Arabic, addressed to Christ and the Mother of God, Who is asked to beg the Son to send down Fire, to George the Victorious, especially revered in the Orthodox East.
According to oral tradition, during the years of British rule over Jerusalem (1918-1947), the English governor once tried to ban "savage" dances. The Patriarch of Jerusalem prayed for two hours: The fire did not come down. Then the Patriarch ordered his will to let the Arab youth. After they performed the ritual, the Fire descended ...
So what will happen if the Holy Fire does not come down? There are many legends and beliefs about what will happen if the Holy Fire does not come down.
Christian tradition says that when the Holy Light does not appear in Kuvuklia, the end of the world will come.
The fire did not go down (higher than the testimony), and the prophecy was not fulfilled, why?
It turns out that one non-convergence of fire is not enough, there must be three foreshadowing events to fulfill the prophecy.
1. The exact location of Noah's Ark will be revealed.
2. The 5,000-year-old Oak of Mamre will dry up (where Abraham met the Holy Trinity).
3. The Holy Fire will not descend.
By the Ark
. Presumably on Mount Ararat in Turkey, traces of it were found.
Mamvrian oak
. Judging by the photos, it's dried up. Although they write that there is something green from the root, but there are no close phots, which leaves are not visible, but it does not look like an oak.
About oak.
Mamri, or, in the Russian religious tradition, the Mamri oak (aka Abraham's Oak, aka Palestine oak, aka Russian oak (because it belongs to the Orthodox Russian mission), he is the oak forest of Mamre.), is considered the oldest tree under which, according to the Bible, Abraham accepted God: “ The Lord appeared to him at the oaks of Mamre, when he was sitting at the entrance to the tent, during the heat of the day"(Genesis 18:1). The oak of Mamre is marked by the glory of the Epiphany. It is believed that the age of this tree is about five thousand years. Moreover, religious texts report that Mamvrian oak has been growing since the creation of the world. Perhaps this oak is a symbol of the World Tree.
This is if with the so-called. physical phenomena. And I think that “physics” is secondary. Yes, and allegories are quite a place to be here.
I remembered the legend of Prometheus (by the way, there is an opinion that he is one of the prototypes of Christ).
So what kind of fire did Prometheus bring to people? You can judge sublimely and say - internal, spiritual, the light of reason, insights. Quite acceptable. Moreover, he stole it from the Gods.
One can think pragmatically and say that yes, he gave the fire, but not the fire itself, but gave the secret of its extraction. But what? I don't think he taught people how to use handy objects to knock out a spark. And if you remember that fire divine, then most likely it was about some kind of magical action that “pierces the veil” and slightly nourishes the souls from the inside with light divine Mind, but as proof that the action took place, in the space of the performance of the magical rite, the physical fire was concentrated and descended (manifested), which immediately upon manifestation was a bit not so, but “cold” ...
So ... What kind of rite is this magical? Question of questions. Most likely the Messenger gave people the Word (spell, sound, “vibration”), resonating with other conditions. Only the fulfillment of the rite in all its subtleties and within a certain period of the space-time corridor could count on success.
Now about “what will happen if the Holy Fire does not come down”.
All IMHO. Since this fire is the Light of the divine mind, bestowed on people for salvation, then its non-descent will not entail cataclysms and global collapse, but it will be exactly the fact that people, having lost their annual “feed”, will begin to degrade mentally, and on the rise. And this will already lead to grave consequences, because “ the sleep of reason will breed monsters“... wars, strife, greed and other negative aspects... And yes ... there will be something else, as it was said: “ to everyone who has, it will be given and multiplied, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
"(Mt.25:29) - this is a speech about the Spirit (mind). Therefore, there will be a gathering and a harvest ... of the Spirit.
But the body is not affected... humanity will live the same as it used to live, eat, drink and enjoy. What will be the effect of degradation? Yes, on the fact that there will be a replacement of values, there will be a severe moral and ethical decline, unbelief and darkness in the souls, etc...
Every year the ceremony of the convergence of the Holy Fire takes place at the Holy Sepulcher in a temple located in Jerusalem - the only city in the world that is the center of the confluence of the three most common world religions. The process of the direct appearance of the Sacred Fire takes place in Kuvuklia (a small chapel), finished with pink-yellow marble. The entrance to Kuvukliya is through double wooden doors. It is the domed chapel - the birthplace of the Holy Light.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is the holy place where Jesus rested, after which his Resurrection took place. The appearance of the Sacred Fire shortly after the Resurrection of Jesus is a symbol of the remission of sins, victory over evil and darkness. Unfortunately, not everyone will be able to get to the ceremony to see this miracle with their own eyes. The temple and the area adjacent to it can accommodate a limited number of people. But everyone can become an eyewitness of the Descent of Fire, because the ceremony of the Descent of the Holy Fire from Jerusalem is broadcast online around the world. You can watch the action on television and on the Internet.
Catholics, Protestants, Syrians, copras and other Gentiles accept the Descent of Fire with great reverence and humility. During the ceremony, a spirit of submission is displayed on their faces. Thus, they pay tribute to the honor and respect for the Orthodox faith in the person of the Patriarch. Before receiving the Holy Fire from the hands of the Patriarch, the Gentiles kneel before him and kiss the finger on his right hand. Even in Islam, watching the Descent of the Holy Fire is not considered a sin, so many Muslims go to Jerusalem to take part in the ceremony.
Preparation for the Descent of the Holy Fire
A few hours before the ceremony, a cordon is set up on the territory adjacent to the Temple. People who come to the ceremony are searched by the police for prohibited items. Journalists who have gathered near the Temple to report on the Christian miracle are also being searched. The patriarch and other clergy are also inspected, checking clothes and ceremonial paraphernalia. All the premises of the temple and the areas adjacent to it are carefully searched. The focus is on the search for explosives. After all, a large crowd of people, especially on the day of a religious holiday, always carries the risk of terrorist attacks and riots.
The domed chapel with the Holy Sepulcher is subjected to special inspection. After the inspection by the police, the doors of the chapel are locked and sealed by representatives of the city hall. The key used to close and open the doors of the domed chapel has been in one of the Arab families throughout the entire time. The head of this family was once appointed the guardian of this shrine. The duties of this person include ensuring the safety of the key and issuing it to the Patriarch once a year for the ceremony.
How is the ceremony of the Descent of the Holy Fire
A solemn and silent atmosphere reigns in the Temple. First, young people enter the chapel, on whose shoulders the same young people sit. They are the first to be instructed to ask Fire for the Descent into Kuvuklia. Then the Patriarch and the clergy, dressed in bright festive clothes, make a procession, three times bypassing the chapel with the Holy Sepulcher. The Patriarch enters the Temple, reciting a special prayer and being in one cassock. In his right hand he holds a lamp with oil, in the other - 33 candles, personifying the age of the crucified and risen Christ. It is in the lamp that the Holy Fire should arise.
A lamp with oil is installed in the center of the Temple, and a special cotton wool with ribbons is laid out around it. When exactly the Holy Fire will appear, no one knows. Sometimes it takes half an hour, and in some cases the Fire descends only after 2-3 hours of prayer. But people are ready to wait for a miracle for hours.
The waiting itself takes place in complete silence. At the same time, all sources of electric lighting are extinguished in the temple. The beginning of the Descent of the Sacred Fire is marked by the appearance of sparkling discharges that can be observed in different parts of Kuvuklia. After that, the discharges reach the icon lamp installed in the center of the Temple and light it. Tradition forbids lighting candles from the lampada until the Patriarch leaves the domed chapel. When His Holiness leaves Kuvuklia, pilgrims can set fire to their candles from the Holy Fire. Anyone who wishes to take a handful of Divine Light with them can freely do so. Thus, billions of particles of the Holy Fire scatter to the most remote corners of our planet.
To the territory Russian Federation The Holy Fire in 2017 will be delivered by a special delegation headed by Vladimir Yakunin. The Holy Fire will be delivered to Russia on April 15, for the Patriarch's Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He will be brought on a special flight and handed over to Patriarch Kirill.
During the first minutes after the Descent, the Fire does not burn the skin when touched, but, on the contrary, gently envelops, renews, and heals. During the silent waiting and the very process of the Descent of Fire, people more than once observed accompanying amazing phenomena. For example, on one Great Saturday in the clear sky for several minutes thunder was heard and lightning flashed, and inside the Temple people felt how their faces were covered with small raindrops. Christians believe that the descended Fire is endowed with unearthly power and is able to work real miracles: to give strength, to get rid of troubles and illnesses.
There are cases when, after the Descent of Fire, the blind began to see, the deaf began to hear, and the gift of speech returned to the dumb. Many people who attended the ceremony in the Jerusalem Temple were cured of severe chronic ailments.
What will happen if the Holy Fire does not come down?
Orthodox Christians are sure that if the Fire does not come down, then the current year will be the last in the life of all people living on Earth. In other words, the end of the world will come. Experts refute this version, because in history there were cases when the fire did not go down, for example, in 1579 and 1101. The descent of the Holy Fire is the personification of the fact that people will be protected all year round Higher Forces. Due to the fact that the Fire that descended on Great Saturday is Divine, its absence cannot entail the onset of world cataclysms and, as a result, the end of the existence of mankind. Knowledgeable people they say that if the Fire does not come down, society will begin to degrade mentally, which will lead to serious negative consequences. For the scripture says that it is the sleep of a stifled mind that can give birth to monsters. This means that world upheavals, wars, revolutions, uprisings, strife will begin. The earth will be dominated by greed, anger and violence. It is not for nothing that the Holy Scripture also says that everyone who has will be rewarded and multiplied a hundredfold, and those who do not have will be taken away in excess of what they have.
For more than 2000 years, the Sacred Fire has descended to Earth, as if reminding us of the death and resurrection of Christ. The Holy Fire is the Light Divine Mind, which is bestowed upon humanity for salvation. Many believers call this miracle the Lord's sign sent directly from Heaven.
The descent of the Holy Fire is a miracle that happens every year on the eve of Orthodox Easter in the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In 2017, the whole Christian world will celebrate the Holy Resurrection of Christ on the same day - April 16th.
On Holy Saturday, tens of thousands of pilgrims flock to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher from all over the world to wash in its blessed light and receive God's blessing.
The Holy Fire was brought to Georgia from JerusalemThe greatest miracle is awaited with excitement not only by Orthodox Christians, but also by representatives of various denominations.
For many hundreds of years, people have been trying to understand where the Holy Fire comes from. Believers are sure that this is a real miracle - God's gift to people. Scientists do not agree with this statement and try to find an explanation for this phenomenon with scientific point vision.
Holy Fire
According to many testimonies, both ancient and modern, the appearance of the Holy Light can be observed in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher throughout the year, but the most famous and impressive is the miraculous descent of the Holy Fire on Great Saturday, on the eve of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.
Throughout almost the entire time of the existence of Christianity, this miraculous phenomenon has been observed annually by both Orthodox Christians and representatives of other Christian denominations (Catholics, Armenians, Copts and others), as well as representatives of other non-Christian religions.
The distribution of the Holy Fire during the Easter service The miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire on the Holy Sepulcher has been known since ancient times, the descending fire has a unique property - it does not burn the first minutes.
The first witness to the convergence of fire was the Apostle Peter - having learned about the Resurrection of the Savior, he hurried to the tomb and saw an amazing light where the body had previously lay. For two thousand years, this light has descended every year on the Holy Sepulcher with the Holy Fire.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was erected by Emperor Constantine and his mother Queen Helena in the 4th century. And the earliest written references about the descent of the Holy Fire on the eve of the Resurrection of Christ date back to the 4th century.
The temple with its huge roof covers Golgotha, and the cave in which the Lord taken down from the cross was laid, and the garden where Mary Magdalene was the first of the people to meet His resurrected.
Convergence
Around noon, a religious procession led by the Patriarch leaves the courtyard of the Jerusalem Patriarchate. The procession enters the Church of the Resurrection, goes to the chapel erected over the Holy Sepulcher, and, after going around it three times, stops in front of its gates.
All the lights in the temple are extinguished. Tens of thousands of people: Arabs, Greeks, Russians, Romanians, Jews, Germans, Englishmen - pilgrims from all over the world - are watching the Patriarch in tense silence.
The patriarch undresses, the police carefully search him and the Holy Sepulcher itself, looking for at least something that can make fire (during the Turkish rule over Jerusalem, Turkish gendarmes did this), and in one long, flowing chiton, the primate of the Church enters.
On his knees in front of the Tomb, he prays to God for the sending down of the Holy Fire. Sometimes his prayer lasts a long time, but there is interesting feature- The Holy Fire descends only through the prayers of the Orthodox Patriarch.
And suddenly, on the marble slab of the coffin, a kind of fiery dew appears in the form of bluish balls. His Holiness touches them with cotton wool, and it ignites. With this cool fire, the Patriarch lights the lampada and candles, which he then takes out to the temple and passes to the Armenian Patriarch, and then to the people. At the same moment, dozens and hundreds of bluish lights flash in the air under the dome of the temple.
It is hard to imagine what kind of jubilation seizes the crowd of many thousands. People shout, sing, the fire is transferred from one bunch of candles to another, and in a minute the whole temple is on fire.
Miracle or trick
This wonderful phenomenon at different times had many critics who tried to expose and prove the artificial origin of fire. The Catholic Church was also among those who disagreed. In particular, Pope Gregory IX in 1238 spoke out with disagreement about the miraculous nature of the Holy Fire.
Not understanding the true origin of the Holy Fire, some Arabs tried to prove that the Fire is supposedly obtained using any means, substances and devices, but they have no direct evidence. At the same time, they did not even witness this miracle.
Modern researchers also tried to study the nature of this phenomenon. In their opinion, it is possible to produce fire artificially. Spontaneous combustion of chemical mixtures and substances is also possible.
Christian Orthodox worshipers light candles from the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem But none of them is similar to the appearance of the Holy Fire, especially with its amazing property - not to burn in the first minutes of its appearance.
Theologians, representatives of various faiths, including the Orthodox Church, have repeatedly stated that the ignition of candles and lamps in the Temple from the supposedly “sacred fire” is a falsification.
The most famous are the statements in the middle of the last century by professor of the Leningrad Theological Academy Nikolai Uspensky, who believed that in Kuvuklia the fire is lit from a secret hidden lamp, the light of which does not penetrate into the open space of the Temple, where all the candles and lamps at this time are extinguished.
At the same time, Uspensky argued that "the fire lit on the Holy Sepulcher from a hidden lamp is still a sacred fire received from a sacred place."
Russian physicist Andrei Volkov, allegedly, a few years ago, managed to take some measurements at the ceremony of the convergence of the Holy Fire. According to Volkov, a few minutes before the removal of the Holy Fire from Kuvuklia, a device that fixes the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation detected a strange long-wave impulse in the temple, which no longer manifested itself. That is, an electrical discharge has occurred.
In the meantime, scientists are trying to find scientific confirmation of this phenomenon, and in contrast to the complete unsubstantiated claims of skeptics, the miracle of the convergence of the Holy Fire is an annually observed fact.
The miracle of the descent of the Holy Fire is available to everyone. It can be seen not only by tourists and pilgrims - it takes place in front of the whole world and is regularly broadcast on television and the Internet, on the website of the Jerusalem Orthodox Patriarchate.
The Holy Fire from Jerusalem Every year, several thousand of those present in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher see: the patriarch, whose clothes were specially examined, entered Kuvuklia, which was checked and sealed, with a bunch of candles. He came out of it with a burning torch of 33 candles, and this is an indisputable fact.
Therefore, the answer to the question of where the Holy Fire comes from can be only one answer - it's a miracle, and everything else is just unconfirmed speculation.
And in conclusion - the Holy Fire confirms the promise of the Risen Christ to the apostles: "I am with you all the days until the end of time."
It is believed that when the Heavenly Fire does not descend on the Holy Sepulcher, this will be a sign of the onset of the power of the Antichrist and the imminent end of the world.
The material was prepared on the basis of open sources.
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