The Holy Fire in Jerusalem

Very few Christians in the west are familiar with the Holy Fire and the faith and hope that is attached to it. I think that whether ones believes in this miracle or not, it is a hopeful and life-giving tradition that can provide optimism and uplift to our best sides. I have pasted in a translation of part of an account from Jerusalem

When they asked Pope Thauphilos III (and he is the only patriarch who enters the holy grave and comes out the bearer of holy light) what he feels about when he sees the holy light out of the grave and what happens in detail before the light comes out he says:

"Sit in front of the stone on which the body of Christ is placed by the Holy Peter Strong, and continue to pray with fear and strength, and it is Prayer was and is still praying, and when the miracle of the emergence of the holy light (holy fire) occurred from inside the holy stone on which the body of Christ was placed.

And this holy light is blue and then changes into several colors, which cannot be explained within the boundaries of human science, because its gloom is like the cloud coming out of the lake, and it appears as a wet cloud but is a holy light.

The appearance of the holy light comes annually in different forms, it repeatedly fills the room where the tomb of Christ is located. And the most important characteristics of the holy light is that it does not burn, and I have received this holy light for sixteen years, and my beard has not burned. And he appears as a pillar of light, and from him the lighting of the candles that I carry, and then go out and give the holy light to the Armenian Patriarch and the Coptic, and all those present.

And the Holy Light lights some candles of the self-righteous believers, and illuminates the high lampshades in front of all those present."