Musings From The High Desert

This week Fr. Gabriel narrates a composite view of the "awe-inspiring rites of initiation" as they may have been experienced around the turn of the 4th and 5th Centuries. Although this narrative is a fabrication, it follows quite closely what we know about baptism, chrismation/confirmation, and the first reception of eucharist from sources such as the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem and On the Sacraments by St. Ambrose of Milan.