"This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see. Brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheatres men murdered to please the applauding crowds, under all roofs misery and selfishness. It is a really bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. Yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet and holy people. They have discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasures of this sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians ... and I am one of them"
~St Cyprian
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~St Cyprian
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Each year when our church does the Festival of Lessons and Carols, we open the service by reading this letter. It sets the stage so well for the service. There is so much similarity between what St. Cyprian writes to Donatus and our world today. It's a most appropriate message.
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