Description
The Catechetical Homilies are one of the best expositions of the Orthodox Christian Faith and one of the most important documents concerning the liturgical practice of the early Church that has faithfully been preserved in the Orthodox Church to the present day. Delivered during the forty days before Pascha as a preparation for Baptism, they comprise a procatechesis, eighteen baptismal catecheses, interpreting the Creed and the fundamentals of the Orthodox Faith, and five Mystagogical Catecheses for the initiates who had been baptized at Pascha, in which the bishop explains the sacred rites of Baptism and the Eucharist.
