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Cultivating True Sight at the Center of the World: Cyril of Jerusalem and the Lenten Catechumenate1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Dayna S. Kalleres
Affiliation:
postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Extract

In 351 c.e., Cyril of Jerusalem prepared catechumens for baptism at what he identified as the very center of the world. From Golgotha Christ once stretched his hands to embrace the ends of the earth, and Cyril's catechumens would soon receive a distinctive baptism predicated on their proximity to Golgotha first and Christ's tomb second. For this bishop location was truly everything, in his own words: “For others only hear but we both see and handle.” Cyril's Lenten Catechumenate consisted of an eight-week course of prebaptismal preparation culminating in an Easter baptism. Within this institution Cyril offered a privileged course of Christian inculcation and a singular notion of the “Christian Soldier.” Through a highly visual exegesis of the crucifixion and resurrection, Cyril transformed baptizands into witnesses to these two events, a status obligating them to defend the actuality of these moments and, in so doing, promote Cyril's particular conceptualization of Jerusalem as Holy Land.

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71. Cat. 13.38–39.

72. Cat. 13.22.

73. Cat. 13.8.

74. Ibid.

75. Cat. 13.35.

76. Cat. 13.15.

77. Cat. 13.35. Isa. 51:1.

78. Matt. 27:60; Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53.

79. Cat. 13.35.

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82. Cat. 13.17–21.

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86. Ibid., 74.

87. Cat. 13.9.

88. Cat. 13.9; Ps. 59:6.

89. Cat. 13.25; Amos 8:9.

90. Cat. 13.12.

91. Ibid.

92. Ibid; Ps. 2:3.

93. Ibid; Isa. 3:14.

94. Cat. 13.13.

95. Ibid; Deut. 32:6.

96. Ibid; Isa. 50:6; Matt. 27:26.

97. Cat. 13.13.

98. Of course Cyril did not intend to dismantle ecclesial mediation altogether. He viewed his own role as Jerusalem's bishop as essential, particularly in his ability to teach initiates how to access the true power of Jerusalem's holy sites.

99. Cat. 13.14; Hosea 10:6

100. Cat. 13.15.

101. Ibid.; Cf. Jer. 12:7.

102. Col. 1:15–18.

103. 1 Cor. 11:3.

104. Col. 2:10.

105. Cat. 13.23.

106. Cat. 13.29; Ps. 69:21.

107. Cat. 13.29; Isa. 5:1–2.

108. Cat. 13.35.

109. Lam. 3:53.

110. 1 Pet. 2:6; Isa. 28:16.

111. Cat. 13.35.

112. Egeria, Itin. 37.

113. Cat. 14.10.

114. Song of Songs 11.12.

115. Gen. 1:2.

116. Cat. 14.10.

117. Cat. 14.5; Song of Songs 4.12.

118. Luke 24:37; John 19:39.

119. Cat. 14.12; Song of Songs 3.1; Matt. 27:52.

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