Cat. xiii., which is occupied with the Crucifixion and
Burial, seems to have followed them immediately on the Friday: it
certainly came a few days only before Cat. xiv. § 1. For
speaking there of the preceding Lecture, Cyril says, “I know the
sorrow of Christ’s friends in these past days; because, as our
discourse stopped short at the Death and the Burial, and did not tell
the good tidings of the Resurrection, your mind was in suspense to hear
what you were longing for.” Now we know that Cat. xiv. was
delivered on the Monday after Passion Sunday: for the Epistle for
that 5th Sunday in Lent was Heb. vi. 11–14, referring to the
Ascension Dict. Chr. Antiq.
“Lectionary,” p. 958 b.: and in §
24 Cyril says, “The grace of God so ordered it, that thou
heardest most fully concerning it, so far as our weakness allowed,
yesterday on the Lord’s day, since by the providence of divine
grace the course of the Readings (ἀναγνωσμάτων)
in Church included the account of our Saviour’s going up into the
heavens.”