Festival

Christian festivals are more than anniversaries. They give Christians opportunities to remember important events, worship together and consider how their beliefs should shape their lives. Christmas celebrates Jesus’ birth; Easter celebrates his resurrection, with the surrounding days also remembering his suffering and death.

Christmas and Easter are annual festivals through which Christians remember and celebrate events in Jesus’ life. They are not simply occasions to recall the past: worship, prayer and shared celebrations help believers express what those events mean for their lives today.