Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were greeted Monday by a rare — and what some saw as an alarming — email from the department’s secretary, Brooke Rollins.

“Happy Easter — He is Risen indeed!” starts the email, which was reviewed by The Washington Post. It appears to have been written on Easter Sunday and was sent to the roughly 100,000 federal workers across USDA. “Today we celebrate the greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind.”