Originally Easter Sunday was not an independent feast, but the
conclusion of the Paschal Vig-il. The need for a relatively discrete
profile arose only when the celebration of Easter was de-veloped into a
festal cycle in the later 4th century, converting Easter Sunday into one
date among others. Therefore homilists of that age had no received
traditions for the creation of festal sermons on the newly established
feast. The proposed short communication will explore how they filled
that vacuum: by drawing on commonplaces of earlier Paschal theology, by
addressing particularly the newly baptized with a mystagogical sermon,
by considering the prologue of the Gospel of John read during
Eastertide, by expounding specific Easter gospel narratives, and by
musing upon the resurrection as such.
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