What is the Pascha
What is the Pascha?
It is called by its name because of what constitutes it:
from “suffer” comes “suffering.”
Therefore, learn who is the suffering one, and who shares in the suffering one’s suffering,
and why the Lord is present on the earth to surround himself.
On Pascha
p. 63-64
Melito of Sardis, On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (trans. Alistair C. Stewart; New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017)