At the very time of delivering the lectures, Cyril was also in the habit of preaching to the general congregation on the Lord’s day Cat. x. 14., when the candidates for Baptism were especially required to be present Cat. i. 6..  In the Church of Jerusalem it was still the custom for sermons to be preached by several Presbyters in succession, the Bishop preaching last.  From Cyril’s Homily on the Paralytic (§ 20) we learn that he preached immediately before the Bishop, and so must have held a distinguished position among the Priests.  This is also implied in the fact, that within three or four years after delivering his Catechetical Lectures to the candidates for Baptism, he was chosen to succeed Maximus in the See of Jerusalem.