Pray more frequently, that God may count you worthy of the heavenly and immortal mysteries. Be idle neither day nor night; but when sleep falls from your eyes, then let the mind [your] be at leisure for prayer. And if you see a shameful thought rising up in your mind, take the saving reminder of the judgment; give your mind leisure for learning, that it may forget evil things. If you see someone saying to you; And are you going down to enter the water? for does the city not now have baths? Know that the dragon of the sea is devising these things for you; pay no heed to the lips of the speaker, but to God who is at work. Guard your own soul, so that you may become unassailable; that, having remained in hope, you may become an heir of eternal salvation. 17 We, for our part, as men, both command and teach these things. But do not make our building hay, and stubble, and chaff; that we may not suffer loss when the work is burned down; but make the work gold, and silver, and precious stones. For in me is the saying, in you the purposing, but in God the perfecting. Let us strengthen the mind; let us brace the soul; let us prepare the heart; we are running for our soul; we are hoping for eternal things. But God is able, [who knows your hearts, and discerns who is genuine, and who a hypocrite] to guard the genuine, and to make the hypocrite a believer. For God is able even to make the unbeliever a believer, if only he gives his heart. And to blot out the handwriting that is against you; and to grant you an amnesty for your former trespasses; and to plant you in the Church, and enlist you for Himself, having clothed you with the armor of righteousness; and to fill you with the heavenly things of the new covenant, and to give the indelible seal of the Holy Spirit for ever, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. Postscript. [These Catechetical Lectures for those who are to be enlightened, while you offer them for reading both to those who are coming to baptism, and to the faithful who have already had the washing, do not give them at all either to catechumens, or to any others who are not Christians; since you will give an account to the Lord. And if you make a copy, write this at the beginning, as in the Lord's sight].

Εὔχου πυκνότερον, ἵνα ὁ Θεός σε καταξιώσῃ τῶν ἐπουρανίων καὶ ἀθανάτων μυστηρίων. Μήτε ἡμέραν ἄργει, μήτε νύκτα· ἀλλ' ὅταν ὁ ὕπνος ἐκ τῶν ὀμμάτων σου ἐκπέσῃ, τότε ἡ διάνοιά [σου] εἰς προσευχὴν σχολαζέτω. Κἂν ἴδῃς λογισμὸν αἰσχρὸν ἀναβάντα εἰς τὴν διάνοιάν σου, λάβε κρίσεως ὑπομνηστικὸν σωτηρίας· σχόλασον τὴν διάνοιαν εἰς τὸ μαθεῖν, ἵνα ἐπιλάθῃ φαύλων πραγμάτων. Ἐὰν ἴδῃς τινά σοι λέγοντα· Καὶ εἰσέρχῃ εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ καταβῆναι; ἄρτι γὰρ οὐκ ἔχει ἡ πόλις βαλανεῖα; Γίνωσκε ὅτι ὁ δράκων τῆς θαλάσσης ταῦτά σοι κατασκευάζει· μὴ πρόσεχε τοῖς χείλεσι τοῦ λαλοῦντος, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἐνεργοῦντι Θεῷ. Φύλασσε τὴν σαυτοῦ ψυχὴν, ὅπως ἄληπτος γένῃ· ἵνα παραμείνας τῇ ἐλπίδι, κληρονόμος γένῃ σωτηρίας αἰωνίου. 17 Ἡμεῖς μὲν ταῦτα, ὡς ἄνθρωποι, καὶ παραγγέλλομεν καὶ διδάσκομεν. Μὴ ποιήσητε δὲ τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἡμῶν χόρτον, καὶ καλάμην, καὶ ἄχυρα· ἵνα μὴ τοῦ ἔργου κατακαέντος, ζημιωθῶμεν· ἀλλὰ ποιήσατε τὸ ἔργον χρυσίον, καὶ ἀργύριον, καὶ λίθους τιμίους. Ἐν ἐμοὶ μὲν γάρ ἐστι τὸ εἰπεῖν, ἐν σοὶ δὲ τὸ προθέσθαι, ἐν Θεῷ δὲ τὸ τελειῶσαι. Νευρώσωμεν τὴν διάνοιαν· συντείνωμεν τὴν ψυχήν· ἑτοιμάσωμεν τὴν καρδίαν· περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχομεν· περὶ αἰωνίων πραγμάτων ἐλπίζομεν. ∆υνατὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς, [ὁ τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν εἰδὼς, καὶ γινώσκων τίς μέν ἐστι γνήσιος, τίς δὲ ὑποκριτὴς] τὸν μὲν γνήσιον φυλάξαι, τὸν δὲ ὑποκριτὴν πιστοποιῆσαι. ∆ύναται γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς καὶ τὸν ἄπιστον πιστοποιῆσαι, ἐὰν μόνον δῷ τὴν καρδίαν. Καὶ ἐξαλείψαι τὸ καθ' ὑμῶν χειρόγραφον· ἀμνηστίαν δὲ ὑμῖν παράσχοι τῶν πρώτων παραπτωμάτων· φυτεύσοι δὲ ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ στρατεύσοι ὑμᾶς ἑαυτῷ, ὅπλα περιβαλὼν τῆς δικαιοσύνης· οὐρανίων δὲ πραγμάτων καινῆς διαθήκης πληρώσειε, καὶ Πνεύματος ἁγίου σφραγίδα δώῃ ἀνεξάλειπτον εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν. Προσλόγιον. [Τὰς τῶν Φωτιζομένων κατηχήσεις ταύτας, τοῖς μὲν τῷ βαπτίσματι προσερχομένοις, καὶ τοῖς τὸ λουτρὸν ἔχουσιν ἤδη πιστοῖς, εἰς ἀνάγνωσιν παρεχόμενος, μὴ δὸς τὸ σύνολον μήτε κατηχουμένοις, μήτε ἄλλοις τισὶ τοῖς μὴ οὖσι χριστιανοῖς· ἐπεὶ τῷ Κυρίῳ λόγον δώσεις. Καὶ ἐὰν ποιῇς ἀντίγραφον, ὡς ἐπὶ Κυρίου ταῦτα πρόγραψον].