St. Athanasius tells us the meaning of Easter: "Disciples of Christ Despise Death... Instead of Fearing it"
True witnesses of Easter and Jesus Christ's resurrection "despise death" as St. Athanasius despised it. St. Athanasius tells us the meaning of Easter in his great book "On the Incarnation": "All the disciples of Christ despise death; they take the offensive against it and, instead of fearing it, by the sign of the cross and by faith in Christ trample on it as on something dead... all those who believe in Christ tread it underfoot as nothing, and prefer to die rather than to deny their faith in Christ, knowing full well that when they die they do not perish, but live indeed, and become incorruptible through the resurrection... There is proof of this too; for men who, before they believe in Christ, think death horrible and are afraid of it, once they are converted despise it so completely that they go eagerly to meet it, and themselves become witnesses of the Saviour's resurrection from it. Even children hasten thus to die." Pray an Our Father now fo