4 faith-building movies to watch with the family this Easter

Christians celebrate Resurrection Sunday or Easter as the Resurrection of Jesus on the third day after He was nailed to the Cross in fulfilment of Scripture. Many observe this day with fasting and repenting the suffering of Christ.

“Many live this life, some in the churches but most outside”. There would be memories of His childhood and some of the things He said. The movie was released in 1965 but is still an Easter favorite for many.

He wants people to know Him. And though the cross is a gruesome part of the story, the story of Easter doesn’t end there; instead, it ends in an empty tomb. a promise of life coming even from the depths of hell.

Real love must follow the cross and sacrifice, not as its goal, but as the necessary path to true glory and new life, the pope said.

“For almost 400 years the top of the Mansfield Road, just a short distance from here, was known as Gallows Hill, because that was the place just outside the perimeter of the old city where the worst criminals were punished for their offences, though at times a brief glance at the history books would suggest it was a fairly rough justice”. There are always some who hold on to beliefs they can only have through faith or through stubborn ignorance. This week is about sacrifice, about laying down one’s life for another, about a father who loved his children so much that he sent his only son to die for us.

I am fond of saying to my congregation that “Jesus did not come to make us less human, he came to make us more human”.

The week preceding Easter or Holy Resurrection is called Holy Week (in Armenian Avak Shabat). We contemplate this mystery that nourishes our faith and fills our hearts with wonder, love and praise. First Peter 3:18 also tells us, “For Christ died for our sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God”.

I am so thankful that when He was placed in the borrowed tomb He did not stay there.

It is only when a seed splits apart and opens up that it can give rise to new life that grows and gives abundant fruit, the pope said. Salvation is only possible through the resurrection.

In the resurrection is the guarantee that there is an eternal life beyond this world. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

“Now imagine the crucifix”, he told the crowd, “and all together say to Jesus Crucified, three times: ‘You are my hope.'” When the crowd said, Francis wasn’t convinced, and had them repeat it again even louder.

What made it a good day is that it was exactly what God had promised way back when mankind rebelled against him in the first place.