With those kinds of interpretive gestures, the Trinity performers constructed the architecture of the oratorio, tracing the birth, death and resurrectionofChrist.
But he said the ultimate test of Christianity was not whether it was beneficial to the human race, but whether the resurrectionof Jesus Christ actually happened.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church's liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death ofChrist and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.