All Orthodox churches start blessing Easter repasts-cakes, painted eggs, and sweet and spiced cream-cheese dishes as soon as the Holy Saturday morning liturgy finishes.
A miracle great and sublime repeats every Holy Saturday in the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem as Blessed Fire mysteriously lights on its slab in heavenly testimony of the Truth of Christianity.
The Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called gathered Russia's foremost religionists and political and public activists on a delegation that has departed to the Holy Land for the Blessed Fire. A liner has been chartered to bring it from Jerusalem to Moscow for the Paschal liturgy the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia will serve tonight at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow's principal shrine.
Many of the clergy and the flock will go to the Vnukovo airport to bring the Blessed Fire straight to their houses of worship and light Easter candles with it. All Orthodox churches of Russia will have Paschal liturgies starting this night to last long into Easter morning.
