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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

I am St. Melito of Sardis

It's my first post for 2011. I have so many things in my mind that I wanted to write about. I have not found the time to stop and gather my thought to create imagery and confine them in English grammar structure.

This is just a quick filler before that time come. A "what kind of drink are you?"  "Oh, I am a  lemon bitter tea;  my life is a tragedy and you are the cause of it"-quiz, only this time it's about Church Father. So I found out that I am St Merlito of Sardis:


You’re St. Melito of Sardis!
You have a great love of history and liturgy. You’re attached to the traditions of the ancients, yet you recognize that the old world — great as it was — is passing away. You are loyal to the customs of your family, though you do not hesitate to call family members to account for their sins.


The picture is from Pitt Theology Library
From 5 strange choices, it came out that conclusion. Yes only 5. One of the choices is about guilty pleasure and from all of the options none is what I can call even remotely as pleasure. Self mutilation certainly is not.

I had no idea who was St. Melito so I surfed a bit and ended up reading about Marcus Aurelius instead. St. Melito wrote a letter to this Roman Emperor. Church celebrates St Melito feast's on 1st April. The day that largely known as the Fool's day. (Sighs)...That's me all right.

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