The Holy Fire? (Miracle, Jerusalem, Hagion Phos) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Each Holy Saturday, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem emerges from the tomb of Christ with the Holy Fire that goes out around the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask if the fire is lit by God or does it have a natural source and what we can learn about this historic rite.

https://mysterious.fm/293

Further Resources:
• Haris Skarlakidis’s book Holy Fire: The Miracle of the Light of the Resurrection at the Tomb of Jesus (Seventy Historical Accounts): https://amzn.to/3RWiBgw
• Skarlakidis’s book online: https://web.archive.org/web/20140328142010/http://www.scarlakidis.gr/ENGLISH/19.epilogue-ENGLISH.htm
• Holy fire (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Fire
• HolyFire.org (English): http://holyfire.org/eng/index.htm
• Why Catholics and Orthodox Might Once Again Celebrate Easter on the Same Date: https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/why-catholics-and-orthodox-might-once-again-celebrate-easter-on-the-same-date/84070
• Church of the Holy Sepulcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
• Garden Tomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb
• Paschal Candle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_candle
• Easter Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_fire
• Jesus Academy’s My Protestant Experience of the Holy Fire 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viSnfkZUnA
• Jesus Academy’s interview with the patriarch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXG53PPbFdw
• Book of James on holy fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPBHfonQxg
• Russian critique of the holy fire (English subtitles available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVhp8i-hlTM
• Israeli news video with Frs. Marcos and Samuel: https://www.mako.co.il/news-israel/local-q1_2018/Article-89380baf5ee0261004.htm
• Telegraph article on the holy fire (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1311064/Mystery-of-Jerusalems-Holy-Fire-comes-to-light.html
• Text of the prayer in the tomb (Russian, but you can machine translate): https://web.archive.org/web/20170520225206/https:/rusdm.ru/news/815