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Updated: May 29, 2025
The administration of the Sacrament of Baptism forms an important feature in the ceremonies of this day: indeed anciently it was customary to confer it only on holy-saturday, and the eve of Whit-sunday, except in case of necessity . On these two days those Catechumens who were sufficiently instructed, and also children, used to be baptised by the bishop, and by the bishop of Rome as well as others ; and after they had been baptised, they all received Confirmation and the holy Eucharist .
The most likely way in which the Gospels grew into their present forms is, that the various traditions relating to Christ were written down in different places for the instruction of catechumens, and that these, passing from hand to hand, and mouth to mouth, grew into a large mass of disjointed stories, common to many churches.
When the catechumens were assembled for the first time, Theodore found himself quite unexpectedly surrounded by a totally different class of boys to whom he had been used at school. When he entered the assembly-room he was met by the stare of something like a hundred inimical eyes. There were tobacco binders, chimney sweeps, apprentices of all trades.
The boy's clear eyes looked at him with interest, but without a vestige of fear. "We were playing," he said. "It was the baptism of the catechumens. I was the bishop, and they" pointing to his companions were the catechumens." "Are you a Christian?" asked Alexander. "Yes," answered the boy proudly. "And these?" "Catechumens." "What did you do?" "I poured the water on them and said the words."
It is not enough to have prepared the conversion of his catechumens with the subtlety of the psychologist, and such perfect Christian charity; but he accompanies them to the very end, and charges them once more before the baptismal piscina. How he is changed!
Hopkins, of Newport Gardner, one of his African catechumens, a negro of singular genius and ability, who, being desirous of his freedom, that he might be a missionary to Africa, and having long worked without being able to raise the amount required, was counselled by Dr. Hopkins that it might be a shorter way to seek his freedom from the Lord, by a day of solemn fasting and prayer.
With that sum and formal good wishes the fathers of the Hospice of the Catechumens thrust him out of their doors into the broad world.
In Upper Egypt certain Christian fraternities had been established, and one of these had addressed a prayer to the great mother-community at Alexandria, that it would send to them a presbyter, a deacon and a deaconess capable of organizing and guiding the believers and catechumens in the province of Hermopolis where they were already numbered by thousands.
"He may attend the school of catechumens in the metropolis, and if he if he " "That we shall see," interrupted Paulus. "For the present it comes to this, we must let him go from hence, and leave him to seek out his own way. You fancy that there may be in heaven a place of glory for such as have never been overcome, and you would fain have seen Hermas among them.
"I only have to say," began the young Christian thus designated, "that I have recently met among the catechumens with some who have attached themselves to us from the basest motives. I mean the idlers who are glad to receive our alms. Have you noticed here a cynic philosopher whose starving brother we maintain? Our deacon Clemens has just ascertained that he is the only son of his father "
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