Roman Letters

Letter 54: Festal greeting.

Theodoret of Cyrrhus→Unknown|c. 440 AD|Theodoret of Cyrrhus|Human translated
friendship
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Festal greeting.

Our divine and saving celebrations both cheer the downhearted and add to the joy of the already joyful. I know this from personal experience: when I was drowning in waves of despair, the sight of the feast's harbor lifted me above the storm.

May your piety pray that I am fully rescued from these waters, and that our loving Lord grants me the mercy of forgetting my sorrow.

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  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from New Advent / NPNF.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2707054.htm

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