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Mystagogy (disciplina arcani (Cyril more concerned with it than other…
Mystagogy
disciplina arcani
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Cat 5.12 Cyril instructs the candidates who receive the Creed for their baptism not to even write it down
The MC states, ‘I saw clearly that seeing is much more convincing than hearing’
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Egeria reports ‘moans and cries’ and ‘loud applause’ when referring to the celebration of the mysteries and the teaching of them. This is testament to the emotive power that this kind of secrecy and then the revealing of them (resemblance to pagan rites)
Cyril of Jerusalem
It is unlikely that Cyril wrote his Catecheses before becoming a bishop and his letter to Constantius in 351 was recently after his accession to the bishopric as he speaks of the ‘first fruits’ of his ministry.
Cyril was born around time Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire. Hence, accepted to be a Christian, though Cyril entered controversy over his determination to preach the two natures of Christ when many of his contemporaries furthered the Arian heresy
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‘’Mystagogy’’, from the Greek root ‘‘agogos’’ meaning ‘’leader’’, can be understood as a process of leading or training in the mysteries (‘’mysta’’) of what has not yet been fully revealed.
Egeria= was a member of a religious community from Spain or South Gaul who was writing for her community sisters an account of her three year tour of the biblical lands
Egeria states that after five weeks of instruction and exorcisms the candidates were then given the creed just days before their baptisms. Only after Easter, where they will have been baptised and experienced the liturgy of the Eucharist for the first time, do they receive instruction as Cyril states, ‘about the reasons for everything that is done’
Cyril states, ‘if the Incarnation was an illusion, so too was our salvation’
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Cyril's rite had no thanksgiving series only- ‘We entreat God… to send forth the Holy Ghost… that He may make the bread the Body of Christ… for whatsoever comes in contact with the Holy Ghost, this is hallowed and transformed’
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Baptism is about empowerment- power over Satan. (C. 3.13) Cyril encouraging people to be baptised earlier?