From the Twenty-Seventh Festal Letter, for Easter 355

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From the Twenty-Seventh Festal Letter, for Easter 355

From the twenty-seventh festal letter of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria and confessor, which begins, “Again the season of the day of the living Passover.” For who is our joy and our boast but our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who suffered for us, and through himself made the Father known to us? For he is none other than the one who spoke through the prophets in times past. But now he says to everyone, “I who speak am near.” This word is very well spoken. For he does not speak at one time and keep silent at another. Continually and at all times, from the beginning, without ceasing, he raises everyone up and speaks to everyone in his heart.