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Week 28 · 5–9 April 2027 · Eastertide
The renunciation
Unit 10 · Cyril: Delivered in Easter week to the newly initiated, explaining what they had just undergone. Now you can talk.
Session A · the reading
About 55 minutes. Open and read aloud before any framing: no introduction, no “today we’re looking at”. Scripture first, then the Father.
- Acts 1–4
- Cyril, Mystagogical Catechesis I: the renunciation of Satan, and Pharaoh at the sea
Session B · the argument
About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.
Name it. Ephesians 1:3–14. The plan to sum up all things in Christ (1:10): the end was first. This is the hypothesis’s whole name.
What is it for?. The renunciation at the font. Cyril answers with Pharaoh.
Books this week
- A Catholic Bible with the deuterocanonical books
- Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments
Optional: one piece of media
The Sixth Sense (1999). Rated PG-13: watch it first. Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.
Now you can talk.
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