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Traditional Passion shows:
A spiritual and religious exercise
The events connected with the Passion, Death and
Resurrection of Christ have been enacted and dramatised all over the
Christian world. It is said that events in Easter gave birth to
Christian drama. In Sri Lanka too we have a popular form of drama on
the Death and Resurrection of Christ known in Sinhala as Pasku.
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The significance of the Cross
Good Friday is the day on which Christians
commemorate the death of Jesus on the Cross. With Jesus' death on
the cross, the cross gradually became the symbol of the Christian
faith. How and why did the cross become synonymous with
Christianity? During the time of Jesus, about 2,000 years ago, under
the Roman imperial government, death on a cross was the way in which
Romans executed thieves, robbers, rebels and other such people who
became a threat to the peaceful way of life under their rule. Then
why did Jesus have to undergo this sort of death?
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