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Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses is unavailable, but you can change that!

These six lectures on the Christian sacraments were delivered in Jerusalem in the middle of the fourth century. They belong to a period of rapid transition for the Church. Less than forty years before, Christianity had been an illegal religion, the object of intense persecution. Now it was the favored religion of the state. Potential converts thronged to the shining new basilicas, built through...

preservative of the body, and safeguard of the soul. Of this in ancient times the blessed Esaias prophesying said, And in this mountain,—(now he calls the Church a mountain elsewhere also, as when he says, In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established;)1—in this mountain, shall the Lord make unto all people a feast; they shall drink wine, they shall drink gladness, they shall be anointed with ointment.2 And that he may make thee sure, hear what he says of this ointment as
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