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	Holy Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Holy Fire (Greek 'Αγιο Φως, "Holy Light") is believed by Orthodox Christians to be a miracle that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the day preceding Orthodox Easter.
		It is also claimed that in 1579, the Armenian patriarch prayed day and night in order to obtain the holy fire, but the lightning miraculously struck a column near the entrance and lit a candle held by the Orthodox patriarch standing nearby.
		Auxentios of Photiki, The Paschal Fire in Jerusalem: A Study of the Rite of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 3rd edition, (St John Chrysostom Press, 1999), ISBN 0963469207
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Fire (538 words)

	- Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On Easter Saturday the "Holy Fire" is said to appear miraculously within it, and candles lit from this wondrous confirmation of Christ's divinity are, by ancient tradition, passed among the faithful by Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch and one of the church's Armenian Orthodox priests.
		Some of the stories are dreadful: the Holy Fire ceremony of 1834 ended with a stampede, mass suffocation and a massacre by panicky Ottoman troops; a British observer described the church walls "spattered with the blood and brains of those who had been felled, like oxen, with the butt-ends of the soldiers' bayonets".
		Holy Fire successfully demonstrates that nothing relating to Jerusalem is ever simple; and I suspect that the author has a sense that she may have overstepped the mark here, because she plunges immediately back into the West Jerusalem restaurant where her two friends are finishing up their meal.
	www.thetablet.co.uk /cgi-bin/book_review.cgi/past-00221 (942 words)

	HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA IN JERUSALEM
		The washing of the feet was in the court opposite the holy gates of the Church of the Resurrection.
		As soon as the Metropolitan shows the Holy Fire, one Arab, laying hold of it, runs straight to the altar and there through the royal doors it is distributed to the people; but one is hardly able to light his candles in the openings.
		Truly for us, holy and worthy of all solemn triumph is this redeeming and radiantly effulgent night, the harbinger of the bright- beaming Day of the Resurrection on which Light eternal shone forth in the flesh from the grave for all.
	www.ocf.org /OrthodoxPage/reading/holyfire.html (6004 words)

	Miracle of the Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the account of her journey, she speaks of a ceremony by the Holy Sepulchre of Christ, where a light comes forth (ejicitur) from the small chapel enclosing the tomb, by which the entire church is filled with an infinite light (lumen infinitum).
		After recieving the Holy Fire, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch passes the flame to the Armenian and Coptic metropolitans, who hand it on to the remaining communities and they in turn, spread it to their own people.
		The Patriarch then passes the fire to the Armenian and Coptic metropolitans, who in turn pass it through holes in the walls of the tomb chapel to runners who are ready to carry it swiftly to the various denominations in the church.
	www.livingmiracles.net /HolyFire.html (1654 words)

	Holy Fire
		After the All-Holy Sepulchre is sealed shut with the beeswax, the authorities place their stamps on top of the wax to indicate their satisfaction to the search that just took place.
		The Holy Fire symbolises but also reminds us in a miraculous way of Christ's Resurrection; for this and the ceremony is actually repeated in all Orthodox Churches before the Midnight Service (Matins and Liturgy) of Pascha (Easter).
		The Holy Fire is a God-sent miracle through the centuries, a miracle sent from the Light of the world, for the world.
	www.eastern-orthodoxy.com /miracles/holyfire.htm (1681 words)

	The Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
		The ceremony surrounding "The Miracle of the Holy Fire" may be the oldest unbroken Christian ceremony in the world.
		Furthermore I was through his intervention admitted to the balconies in the dome of the Holy Sepulchre Church, from where I had a fine view over the masses that had gathered around the tomb in anticipation of the "Great Miracle of the Holy Fire".
		The person who experiences the miracle from a close distance by having the fire on the candle or seeing the blue light usually leaves Jerusalem changed, and for everyone having attended the ceremony, there is always a "before and after" the Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /general/holyfire.aspx (3094 words)

	Holy Fire Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bantam Spectra, October 1996, $22.95 US My main book for the last week has been Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling.
		Holy Fire is set 100 years in the future, and the main character is a woman born in 2001 (a symbolic date, I'm sure; as the fact that the book opens with the death of her former lover, born in 1999, is symbolic too).
		She seems to be whatever the plot needs her to be at certain times: this is partly explainable by the very real physical and psychological changes she must be undergoing: but at times it seems rather arbitrary.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/holyfire.htm (363 words)

	John Duncan -- Holy fire
		Holy fire fizzled on Wednesday night, although for a moment I wished for the revival of Moses’ burning bush at mealtime in a pot of flaming grease.
		The prophet Jeremiah claimed "fire in my bones." Blaise Paschal (1623-1623), the French mathematician and religious philosopher, once described his encounter with God in one word, "Fire." Thomas Cranmer was consumed by it.
		Holy fire yearns for the Light of God to come and stay, a fire that burns bright to warm your soul and others, a fire willing to sacrifice because of Jesus’; death and resurrection that lit the fires of eternity.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2001/9_10/print/cyber.html (612 words)

	Holy Fire
		The spirit of Agrik is in the Holy Fire.
		In a temple the fires in the rooms are all fetched from the central Holy Fire.
		These are used to start fires in camps, and in the morning, the Holy Fire is brought back into the box and taken out from the fire, which is thus extiguished.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /harn-religion-team/agrik/ceremonies/holy_fire.html (905 words)

	Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling) - book review
		Sterling packs a lot into Holy Fire, but the plot is relatively slow-moving: the result is definitely no cyberpunk thriller.
		Some of the larger themes include the psychological effects of aging, the balance between creativity and security (for both individuals and societies), and the nature and source of artistic inspiration.
		Holy Fire may lack mass appeal, but it is a success both as a novel and as a philosophical exploration: I recommend it to anyone who likes intelligent science fiction.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Holy_Fire.html (238 words)

	PURE HOLY FIRE
		Hence it was that, in the course of giving His holy Law that the Lord pauses to remind his people what the whole business was all about: I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy....
		One of the most common images used in the bible in the context of God and His attitude towards sin and evil is that of fire.
		In that way believers pray for the refining fire of the Holy Spirit to come within, separating out and burning off any impurities, so that with total devotion and love they could serve the Lord.
	www.cyberus.ca /~calvincrc/Sermons/jun22am.htm (1649 words)

	Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the themes in Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire is the consequence of rebirth, but because the novel is science fiction the rebirth of its main character, Mia Zimmerman, is never a metaphor, it is an actuality.
		As a runaway she meets a variety of people, and this part of the novel is quite episodic in nature, but the author manages (if only just) to bring it all together.
		The binding force with which this convergence is achieved is the "Holy Fire" of the title.
	www.rambles.net /sterling_fire.html (591 words)

	BookPage Science Fiction Review: Holy Fire
		Imagine that your deepest thoughts and desires could be mapped and stored in a sacred and recreational if artificial paradise -- a memory palace, if you will -- in a world so apart from yourself that when you die, this virtual embodiment for your soul survives you.
		This is but one of the many versions of immortality explored by science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling in his latest novel, Holy Fire.
		Holy Fire is the personal odyssey of the soul in virtual flight through the extremities and limitations of being human, where the very striving to exceed these restraints may very well lead to the soul's complete undoing.
	www.bookpage.com /9612bp/sciencefiction/holyfire.html (429 words)

	Purgatory: Holy Fire
		We're going to try to understand purgatory as Holy Fire, just like we tried to understand the Pope in terms of him being our Holy Father, the father figure who symbolizes the unity of the family of God here on earth under the ultimate fatherhood of Almighty God.
		Jesus said, "I come to baptize with fire and spirit." And so, when the Spirit comes at Pentecost, tongues of fire appear, and whenever the Holy Spirit appears, there is Holy Fire.
		"The Lord is coming with fire," Isaiah, 66, verse 15, "and His rebuke is with flames of fire." "Fire comes forth from the presence of the Lord" in Leviticus all the way until the end of the New Testament.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0091.html (10830 words)

	Niels Christian Hvidt -- The Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
		The Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
		Praying in the Holy Sepulchre in itself is for me always a very holy moment in a very holy place.
		In the Protestant areas it may to a certain extent be explained by the fact that there is no real tradition for miracles; people don't really know in which box to place the miracles, and they don't take up much space in newspapers.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles/HvidtHolyFire.shtml (3085 words)

	Spread the Holy Fire
		CATHOLICS EVANGELIZING IN On Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended in tongues of fire on Jesus’ disciples.
		The Holy Fire empowered them to become witnesses to Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
		To spread the Holy Fire, we must start with lives ablaze with love and the desire for deeper holiness.
	www.stbernadettechurch.org /spreading_the_holy_fire.htm (359 words)

	Review of Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling, Bantam Spectra, 1996, 326 pp.
		Mia Ziemann, at 94, is one of the most exemplary old people around -- she has lived a careful life, she has lots of money, and she decides to devote these two things (which are actually the same thing -- this society rewards healthy lifestyles) to a new life rejuvenation technology.
		Holy Fire is a generally well-written, interesting novel, with a heroine that suits her era.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/holyfire.htm (905 words)

	God's Holy Fire
		There is holy warning here about trying to stir up STRANGE FIRE by the "works of human hands." God HAD NOT commanded incense but Nadab and Abihu knew about it from their old paganism.
		The refiner's fire made silver and gold to become a water vessel pure enough to enter into the temple.
		Trying to make HOLY FIRE feel comfortable was the eternal method condemned by literature such as THE BOOK OF ENOCH and others.
	www.piney.com /Gods.Holy.Fire.ACU.html (4719 words)

	The Miracle of the Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was an exciting day where representatives of many churches from all over the Holy Land come to receive the Holy Fire and carry it back in small lanterns to their particular churches for the Midnight Resurrection Service.
		It is on this Great and Holy Saturday that the Holy Fire come down from Heaven and was received by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch as it has been done every year, on the same day, in the same manner, at the same time, at the same holy place of Christ's Life Giving Tomb.
		It is one of the most magnificent celebrations in the Holy Land that has been overshadowed and forgotten during the reoccupation of the Palestinian Territories.
	www.hcef.org /hcef/index.cfm/mod/news/ID/16/SubMod/NewsView/NewsID/1096.cfm (768 words)

	eBay - Book: Holy Fire (ISBN: 055357549X) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is a world that also contains "holy fire", a perception that may lead to the transformation of the human race.
		She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams...or her undoing.
		Worst of all, Mia will have to undergo one last radical procedure that could cost her a second life.In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling once again creates a unique and provocative future that deals with such timeless topics of the human condition as love,memory, science, politics, and the meaning of death.
	product.ebay.com /Holy-Fire_ISBN_055357549X_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ253891 (835 words)

	Newman Apologetics Resource
		We don't have a binary deity, the Father and the Son We have a trinitery deity, a family -- a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit.
		Romans 8 is the central facet that glistens and gleams.
		We are baptized with the Holy Spirit in fire," Matthew 3:11.
	www.star.ucl.ac.uk /~vgg/rc/aplgtc/hahn/m4/pg.html (10670 words)

	Guarding The Holy Fire
		Further, the Toleration Act of 1689 gave Nonconformist churches the freedom of worship and marked the end of the Church of England's claim to be the national, all-inclusive church of the English People.
		The church was weakened by the loss of Puritan enthusiasm, and characterized by dilapidated parish buildings, money-seeking clergy, and sermons which were either too learned or too dull for the congregations.
		However, in the latter part of the century, the Anglican church came under a cloud, and the chapter ends with the former evangelicals in the Episcopal Church having become liberals, as liberalism, Biblical criticism and Darwinism gained ascendancy in the denomination's educational institutions.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/2162.htm (2556 words)

	Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		O, but my flame is as dirtied as me, and it leaves more room to be touched by Her holy fire, which by rights should purge, but is twisted and perverted by my evil self.
		Ah, yes, he'll die, and when his carcass lies lifeless I shall burn him to ashes; dirty and perverted though I may be, I am still Her holy fire.
		She fell into fire and She was born from it a dragon, with power pouring from Her, pulsing out like a light.
	www.dreamwater.org /realmlibrary/fics/nefertariholyfire.html (2446 words)

	Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After a moment of prayer, he emerges with the Holy Fire, passing it on by candle to the gathered faithful.
		Perhaps this was the greater miracle of the Holy Fire this year.
		Everyone agreed that the arrival of the Holy Fire this year paled in comparison to the celebrations of brighter days, but it was the biggest event in years.
	www.saltfilms.net /updates/update31.html (1763 words)

	CD Baby: DELROY SOUDEN: Holy Fire
		In November of 2001, Delroy released his debut maxi single "Holy Fire" on his own label, En Sound Entertainment to raved reviews and has been interviewed by radio personalities throughout the Northeast.
		He has been featured in the Love Express Christian Newspaper as the local artist for the month of April 2002, and was humbled that he was chosen given the fact that his full-length project had not yet been released.
		HOLY FIRE and HOLD ON are my favorites, but all four songs are great.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/souden (637 words)

	Holy Fire Church Of God In Christ - Joliet,IL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We believe that the baptism in the Holy Ghost, according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who asks for it.
		We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live a Holy and separated life in this present world, Amen.
		Holy Fire Church Of God In Christ is associated with: Church of God in Christ
	netministries.org /see/churches/ch23821 (353 words)

	Bruce Sterling: Holy Fire
		Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of the future as outlined in Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire is that he requires his characters to take responsibility for their actions.
		Perhaps the most interesting, most real character in Holy Fire is the angst-ridden Emil, who sold his memory in an effort to pursue his art.
		In Holy Fire, Sterling has written a coming of age story in which the main character is a ninety-year-old woman living in a twenty-year-old's body and memories.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/sterling.html (452 words)

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