On Pascha is itself the text of the liturgy, the means by which the Christians of Sardis, gathered with Melito their bishop, might commemorate and know the presence of Jesus in his triumph. It may however seem puzzling that there is no eucharistic prayer as such, no direct reference to gifts of bread and wine (the references are there, but indirect), no epiclesis (for all that Melito assumes the activity of the Spirit he does not have a pneumatology as such, as we shall see later in this introduction)