What is "catechumens"

Usage examples of "catechumens".

In this stage of their progress they were called catechumens, of whom, according to Suicer, there were two classes,-one called ‘Audientes,’ who had only entered upon their course, and begun to hear the word of God.

When the catechumens had given full proof of the ripeness of their knowledge, and of the stedfastness of their faith, they were baptized, admitted to the table of the Lord, and styled Fideles.

Pusey in a note remarks, was delivered orally to the catechumens to commit it to memory, and by them delivered back, i.

It was only as competentes, and ready for baptism, that the catechumens were taught the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed.

On the vigil of Easter, the solemn administration of baptism was rudely interrupted by the soldiers, who alarmed the modesty of the naked catechumens, and violated, by their presence, the awful mysteries of the Christian worship.

From the very first catechumens were exorcised as a preparation for the Sacrament of Baptism.