PASSION PLAY

ORIGIN

The Passion play is a vibrant retailing of perhaps humanity’s greatest. It is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trail: suffering and death. It is a traditional part of Lent in several Christian denominations, particularly in Catholic tradition. Every year, members of the COG Theatre community put on a stellar dramatization of Passion of Christ.

What’s the story?

The Passion of Christ is the story of Jesus Christ’s arrest, trial and suffering. It ends with his execution by crucifixion. The Passion is an episode in a longer story and cannot be properly understood without the story of the Resurrection.

The word Passion comes from the Latin word for suffering.

The crucifixion of Jesus is accepted by many scholars as an actual historical event. It is recorded in the writings of Paul, the Gospels, Josephus, and the Roman historian Tacitus. Scholars differ about the historical accuracy of the details, the context and the meaning of the event.