Parishioners gather for joyous Easter celebration

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As church bells chimed to mark the start of Easter services, parishioners flooded into the St Paul’s Anglican Church in Petaling Jaya, Selangor on Sunday (March 31) with joy and celebration.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:02 As church bells chimed and Easter services began on Sunday,

00:06 parishioners streamed into churches,

00:08 brimming with warmth and reverence.

00:11 The vibrant spirit of celebration permeated

00:13 the 9 a.m. service at St. Paul's Anglican Church

00:16 in Petaling Jaya.

00:17 In that very long chapter,

00:20 all of our services, more and more people are attending.

00:23 And for this Easter service, it's definitely a bigger group.

00:27 Usually we put tents outside

00:28 for Christmas and New Year,

00:30 but we didn't realise there were going to be so many people today.

00:33 So I think maybe there are about 400, 450 people,

00:36 which is quite a lot.

00:37 And so people are coming out.

00:40 I don't know whether it's the second coming or what.

00:42 People are getting ready.

00:44 Mmm, very encouraging.

00:46 Even for our Good Friday service,

00:49 it was packed, something like this was full.

00:53 In the past years, even before COVID,

00:55 we never had it so full.

00:57 So every year it's increasing a little bit more.

00:59 And of course, there's still a lot of people that watch online

01:01 and they're comfortable.

01:03 For 85-year-old parishioner Amy David,

01:05 Easter holds a significance surpassing even that of Christmas.

01:10 God sent his Son onto the earth to save us from our sins.

01:15 How so awesome!

01:18 I really come into tears when I see that he died for our sins.

01:22 This year especially,

01:24 I'm having a generation,

01:29 a hundred years old generation gathering.

01:32 My grandparents had 12 children.

01:35 I came to live in KL 20 years ago from Butterworth.

01:38 After that, I started gathering all these 12 siblings.

01:42 And we're having a second gathering on the 13th of April.

01:47 The church service ended with peaceful greetings among the parishioners,

01:51 accompanied by hymns sung by the church choir.

01:54 Easter marks the culmination of the 40-day Lent,

01:57 and unlike Good Friday,

01:58 which commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,

02:01 Easter celebrates his resurrection from the dead.

02:05 ♪ God bless the church ♪

02:08 ♪ My life is not a straight line ♪

02:13 ♪ But I'm a straight line ♪

02:18 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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