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The Easter praise of Christ
On Monday within the Octave of Easter our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the beginning of the first letter of Saint Peter (1;1-21) entitled "Greetings and thanksgiving". Our treasure, which follows, is from an Easter homily by Saint Melito of Sardis.
Sardis was the capital of the Kingdom of Lydia (in modern-day Turkey), which continued as an important trade, administrative, and cultural center for over 2000 years. Saint Melito of Sardis was a late second-century bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and who held a foremost place among the early…
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