The Benedict Year › Reading Backwards from the Pascha › Unit 10 · Cyril
Week 29 · 12–16 April 2027 · Eastertide
Baptism
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 5–8
- Cyril, Mystagogical Catechesis II: baptism, and Romans 6
Session B · the argument
About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.
Look back. Which cards on the Tile Board does Cyril use? Let the child find them.
Books this week
- A Catholic Bible with the deuterocanonical books
- Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments
Optional: one piece of media
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Rated PG-13: watch it first. Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.
The child memorized Romans 6:3–4 in Lent. Cyril quotes it.
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