What time does the Holy Light arrive in Romania! It will be brought from Jerusalem this evening

The Holy Light from Jerusalem will be brought to Romania by plane and will be given to the delegates of the dioceses at Otopeni Airport.

Later, it will be distributed to each parish, declares the Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate.

What time does the Holy Light arrive from Jerusalem

The Holy Light arrives this evening also in the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, brought by a delegate of the Metropolitanate of Moldova and Bucovina, later offered to the parishes of the Metropolitanate of Bessarabia.

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Also this evening, around 19:00, the Holy Light will arrive at the Patriarchal Cathedral and will be taken over by Blessed Daniel.

How to take the Light from the Holy Sepulcher

Every year, around the Easter holidays, in Jerusalem, during the Great Vespers on Holy Saturday, between 12:30-2:30 p.m., a fire is lit that descends from the sky above the Holy Sepulcher. In the first minutes, the fire does not burn.

On Good Friday the civil police, who are not Christians, begin the inspection of the Holy Sepulcher, immediately after Prohod. Generally it is an Arab, a Turk and a representative of the State of Israel, who must take care of the room of the Holy Sepulcher so that there is no source of fire.

The guards also search the people who enter the room for the religious ceremony.

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When the moment comes, the lights are turned off, the door is sealed, and only the guards remain at the entrance. After the service ends, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, wearing only a white cassock with epitrachilus and girdle, goes to the Holy Sepulcher, where he is controlled by guards at the entrance.

The priest unseals the door of the Holy Sepulcher and enters the first room, entitled “Chapel of the Angel”, accompanied by an Arab of the Islamic religion. Later, he enters the room where the Savior is and kneels before the slab.

After he says his prayer, the people in the church can see a light that descends like lightning, that springs from the dome above the Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher and that ignites the cotton wool sprinkled on top. The priest takes the lit cotton in his hands, puts it in two golden cups, then returns to the Chapel of the Angel, after which he lights two handfuls of 33 candles each. Afterwards, he comes out and shares the light of believers, says Agerpres.