CATECHETICAL LECTURES I-XII With PROTOCATECHESIS St. Cyril of Jerusalem Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church PROCATECHESIS PROLOGUE TO THE CATECHETICAL LECTURES OF CYRIL, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]. ALREADY there is an odour of blessedness upon you, O ye who are soon to be enlightened1:...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hough many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love. Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking down the barrier that divided us and abolishing the law with its precepts...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]atience is a precept for salvation given us by our Lord our teacher: Whoever endures to the end will be saved. And again: If you persevere in my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Lord's prayer continues: Thy kingdom come. We ask that the kingdom of God may appear to us, just as we ask that his name may be sanctified in us. For when does God not reign, or when does his kingdom...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us. Who would not strive wholeheartedly to attain to such glory, to become a friend of God and straightway rejoice with...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear brother, the reason why I could not write to you immediately was that all the clergy were embroiled in the heat of the conflict. They could not possibly leave, all of them having prepared themselves for divine and heavenly...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ur obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps]ow great is the Lord’s indulgence! How kindly he bends down to us, how he overflows with goodness towards us! For he wishes us to pray in the sight of God in such a way as to call God Fatherand to...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hrist has clearly added a law here, binding us to a definite condition, that we should ask for our debts to be forgiven us only as much as we ourselves forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot obtain what we...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction The Second Vatican Council, with its Dogmatic ConstitutionLumen gentium, and its Decrees on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) and the Oriental Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum), has contributed in a decisive way to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiolgy. The Supreme Pontiffs have also contributed to this renewal by...