Letter 54: Festal greeting.
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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