Catechetical Lectures

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem · c. 350 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Archbishop of Jerusalem; thrice exiled by the Arianizing emperors. His twenty-four Catechetical Lectures (the Procatechesis, eighteen lectures to those preparing for baptism, and five Mystagogical Lectures to the newly illumined) are the most detailed surviving witness to the liturgical and sacramental life of the 4th-century Church — covering the rites of catechumenate, baptism, chrismation, and the Eucharist as celebrated in Jerusalem.

Contents

1. Procatechesis, or Prologue to the Catechetical Lectures of our Holy Father, Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem(1 chapter)
2. To those who are to be Enlightened, delivered extempore at Jerusalem, as an Introductory Lecture to those who had come forward for Baptism(1 chapter)
3. On Repentance and Remission of Sins, and Concerning the Adversary(1 chapter)
4. On Baptism(1 chapter)
5. On the Ten Points of Doctrine(1 chapter)
6. Of Faith(1 chapter)
7. Concerning the Unity of God.  On the Article, I Believe in One God.  Also Concerning Heresies(1 chapter)
8. The Father(1 chapter)
9. Almighty(1 chapter)
10. On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible(1 chapter)
11. On the Clause, and in One Lord Jesus Christ, with a Reading from the First Epistle to the Corinthians(1 chapter)
12. On the Words, the Only-Begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father Very God Before All Ages, by Whom All Things Were Made(1 chapter)
13. On the words Incarnate, and Made Man(1 chapter)
14. On the words, Crucified and Buried(1 chapter)
15. On the Words, And Rose Again from the Dead on the Third Day, and Ascended into the Heavens, and Sat on the Right Hand of the Father(1 chapter)
16. On the Clause, And Shall Come in Glory to Judge the Quick and the Dead; Of Whose Kingdom There Shall Be No End(1 chapter)
17. On the Article, And in One Holy Ghost, the Comforter, Which Spake in the Prophets(1 chapter)
18. Continuation of the Discourse on the Holy Ghost(1 chapter)
19. On the Words, And in One Holy Catholic Church, and in the Resurrection of the Flesh, and the Life Everlasting(1 chapter)
20. First Lecture on the Mysteries(1 chapter)
21. On the Mysteries. II:  Of Baptism(1 chapter)
22. On the Mysteries. III:  On Chrism(1 chapter)
23. On the Mysteries. IV:  On the Body and Blood of Christ(1 chapter)
24. On the Mysteries. V:  On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion(1 chapter)