Festal and Personal Letters, Festal Letters

Festal Letters

• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.1 — Letter I.—For 329. Easter-day xi Pharmuthi; viii Id. April; Ær. Dioclet. 45; Coss. Constantinus Aug. VIII. Constantinus Cæs. IV; Præfect. Septimius Zenius; Indict. II. Of Fasting, and Trumpets, and Feasts. Come, my…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.2 — Letter II.—For 330. Easter-day xxiv Pharmuthi; xiii Kal. Mai; Æra Dioclet. 46; Coss. Gallicianus, Valerius Symmachus; Præfect, Magninianus; Indict. iii. Again, my brethren, is Easter come and gladness; again the Lord…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.3 — Letter III.—For 331. Easter-day xvi Pharmuthi; iii Id. April; Æra Dioclet. 47; Coss. Annius Bassus, Ablabius; Præfect, Florentius; Indict. iv. Again, my beloved brethren, the day of the feast draws near to us, which,…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.4 — Letter IV.—For 332. Easter-day vii Pharmuthi, iv Non. Apr.; Æra Dioclet. 48; Coss. Fabius Pacatianus, Mæcilius Hilarianus; Præfect, Hyginus; Indict. v. He sent this Letter from the Emperor’s Court by a soldier. I…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.5 — Letter V.—For 333. Easter-day, Coss. Dalmatius and Zenophilus; Præfect, Paternus; vi Indict.; xvii Kal. Maii, xx Pharmuthi; xv Moon; vii Gods; Æra Dioclet. 49. We duly proceed, my brethren, from feasts to feasts,…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.6 — Letter VI.—For 334. Easter-day, xii Pharmuthi, vii Id. April; xvii Moon; Æra Dioclet. 50; Coss. Optatus Patricius, Anicius Paulinus; Præfect, Philagrius, the Cappadocian; vii Indict. Now again, my beloved, has God…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.7 — Letter VII.—For 335. Easter-day iv Pharmuthi, iii Kal. April; xx Moon; Ær. Dioclet. 51; Coss. Julius Constantius, the brother of Augustus, Rufinus Albinus; Præfect, the same Philagrius; viii Indict. The blessed Paul…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.8 — Letter X.—For 338. Coss. Ursus and Polemius; Præf. the same Theodorus, of Heliopolis, and of the Catholics. After him, for the second year, Philagrius; Indict. xi; Easter-day, vii Kal. Ap. xxx Phamenoth; Moon 18½;…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.9 — Letter XI.—For 339. Coss. Constantius Augustus II, Constans I; Præfect, Philagrius the Cappadocian, for the second time; Indict. xii; Easter-day xvii Kal. Mai, xx Pharmuthi; Æra Dioclet. 55. The blessed Paul, being…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.10 — (Probably for 340 A.D.) To the Beloved Brother, and our fellow Minister Serapion. *XII.—(Probably for 340 a.d.) To the Beloved Brother, and our fellow Minister Serapion. Thanks be to Divine Providence for those…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.11 — (For 341.) Coss. Marcellinus, Probinus; Præf. Longinus; Indict. xiv; Easter-day, xiii Kal. Maii, xxiv Pharmuthi; Æra Dioclet. 57. Letter XIII.—(For 341.) Coss. Marcellinus, Probinus; Præf. Longinus; Indict. xiv;…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.12 — Letter XIV.—(For 342.) Coss. Augustus Constantius III, Constans II, Præf. the same Longinus; Indict. xv; Easter-day iii Id. Apr., xvi Pharmuthi; Æra Dioclet. 58. The gladness of our feast, my brethren, is always near…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.13 — (For 345.) Coss. Amantius, Albinus; Præf. Nestorius of Gaza; Indict. iii; Easter-day, vii Id. Apr., xii Pharmuthi; Moon 19; Æra Dioclet. 61. Letter XVII.—(For 345.) Coss. Amantius, Albinus; Præf. Nestorius of Gaza;…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.14 — Letter XVIII.—(For 346.) Coss. Augustus Constantius IV, Constans III; Præf. the same Nestorius; Indict. iv; Easter-day iii Kal. Apr., iv Pharmuthi; Moon 21; Æra Dioclet. 62. Athanasius, to the Presbyters and Deacons…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.15 — Letter XIX.—(For 347.) Coss. Rufinus, Eusebius; Præf. the same Nestorius; Indict. v; Easter-day, Prid. Id. Apr., Pharmuthi xvii; Æra Dioclet. 63; Moon 15. ‘Blessed is God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,’ for…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.16 — Letter XX.—(For 348.) Coss. Philippus, Salia; Præfect the same Nestorius; Indict. vi; Easter-day iii Non. Apr., viii Pharmuthi; Æra Dioclet. 64; Moon 18. Let us now keep the feast, my brethren, for as our Lord then…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.17 — (For 350.). Where our Lord Jesus Christ, who took upon Him to die for all, stretched forth His hands, not somewhere on the earth beneath, but in the air itself, in order that the Salvation effected by the Cross might…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.18 — (For 352.). And at that time when they went forth and crossed over Egypt, their enemies were the sport of the sea; but now, when we pass over from earth to Heaven, Satan himself henceforth falls like lightning from…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.19 — From Letter XXVII.—(For 355.) From the twenty-seventh Festal Letter of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and Confessor; of which the commencement is, ‘Again the season of the day of the living Passover.’ For who is…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.20 — (For 356.). …In order that while He might become a sacrifice for us all, we, nourished up in the words of truth, and partaking of His living doctrine, might be able with the saints to receive also the joy of Heaven.…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.21 — Another Fragment. But let us, brethren, who have received the vineyard from the Saviour, and are invited to the heavenly banquet, inasmuch as the Feast is now drawing nigh, take the branches of the palm trees, and…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22 — From Letter XXIX.—(For 357.) From the twenty-ninth Letter, of which the beginning is, ‘Sufficient for this present time is that which we have already written.’ The Lord proved the disciples, when He was asleep on the…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.23 — Another Fragment. And whereas what is human comes to an end, what is divine does not. For which reason also when we are dead, and when our nature is tired out, he raises us up, and leads us up [though] born of earth…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.24 — Another Fragment. Here begins a letter of S. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, to his children. May God comfort you. I know moreover that not only this thing saddens you, but also the fact that while others have…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.25 — From Letter XXXIX.—(For 367.) Of the particular books and their number, which are accepted by the Church. From the thirty-ninth Letter of Holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, on the Paschal festival; wherein he…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.26 — (For 368.). ‘Ye are they that have continued with Me in My temptations; and I appoint unto you a kingdom, as My Father hath appointed unto Me, that ye may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom.’ Being called, then,…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.27 — (For 370.). For we have been called, brethren, and are now called together, by Wisdom, and according to the Evangelical parable, to that great and heavenly Supper, and sufficient for every creature; I mean, to the…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.28 — (For 371.). Of us, then, whose also is the Passover, the calling is from above, and ‘our conversation is in heaven,’ as Paul says; ‘For we have here no abiding city, but we seek that which is to come,’ whereto, also,…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.29 — From Letter XLIV.—(For 372.) And again, from the forty-fourth Letter, of which the commencement is, ‘All that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ did instead of us and for us.’ When therefore the servants of the Chief…vatican.va
• Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.30 — (For 373.). Let us all take up our sacrifices, observing distribution to the poor, and enter into the holy place, as it is written; ‘whither also our forerunner Jesus is entered for us, having obtained eternal…vatican.va