About the e-book: In the middle of the fourth century, a young priest, Cyril (315–86), was ordained bishop of Jerusalem, a see first led by St James, a kinsman of the Lord Jesus.
St Cyril is most famous for his twenty-three catechetical lectures, the first eighteen of which were delivered to prospective converts during Lent. St Cyril’s fifteenth lecture, printed here (2014), is devoted to the Lord Jesus’ second coming.
This new work is a substantial revision of the translation found in the elegant but somewhat archaic Library of the Fathers edition (1839), a text in the public domain but not as widely available online as the translation found in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers edition (1893).
Numerous editorial revisions have been made in order to foster ease of understanding, and over one hundred biblical citations have been added to the body of the text.
The Latin word for teacher is doctor, and Pope Leo XIII declared St Cyril a Doctor of the Church on 28 July 1882, with the publication of a Mass and Office in the saint's honour. Let us join the catechumens of that Lent of nearly seventeen centuries ago, and sit beside them in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, and listen to St Cyril’s teaching on Christ’s second coming.
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