Morning Prayer - FRIDAY, 18 March 2022

LISTEN: Morning Prayer - March 18, 2022 | Friday in the Second Week of Lent

This Friday, we continue our Lenten fast and offer our works, prayers and sacrifices for all catechumens of the faith.

Today, we also commemorate St. Cyril, the bishop of Jerusalem who, along with St. Athanasius and others, belongs to the great champions of faith in the fight against Arianism. Famous as a teacher and preacher, he has left a series of catechetical instructions that constitute a priceless heirloom from Christian antiquity. Of the twenty-four extant discourses, nineteen were directed to catechumens during Lent as a preparation for baptism, while five so-called mystagogical instructions were given during Easter time to make the mysteries of Christianity better known to those already baptized. He died in 386. He is held in high esteem by both the Catholics and the Orthodox, and he was declared a Doctor of the Church by the Pope in 1883.

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