St. Melito of Sardis—On the Passover
By James T. Majewski ( bio - articles - email ) | Apr 10, 2023 | In Catholic Culture Audiobooks (Podcast)
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“For the one who was born as Son, and led to slaughter as a lamb, and sacrificed as a sheep, and buried as a man, rose up from the dead as God.”
A vernacular version of the earliest surviving Easter vigil homily by a second-century bishop about whom little is known.
Full text courtesy of Kerux: A Journal of Biblical Theology https://www.kerux.com/doc/0401A1.asp
Alternate translation: https://sachurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/On-Pascha-Melito-of-Sardis.pdf
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James T. Majewski is Director of Customer Relations for CatholicCulture.org, the “voice” of Catholic Culture Audiobooks, and co-host of Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast. Based in New York City, he holds both a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Acting. See full bio.
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