In Baptism Hist., pages 317 and 318, he has this annotation (cap. 8, ibid), "Cyril himself exhorts some catechumens who before had spent several years in sensuality and lewdness, that they should not think it grievous to do penance for forty days, saying: 'Beloved, forsake that which is present, and believe in the things to come. So many years you have spent, and served the world in vain; will you not, then, begin, and for the sake of your souls, abstain for forty days?"'
In Baptism Hist., page 318, we read (Cyril in Catech. 2, Mijstag.), "Repent, O man, and the grace of baptism shall not be withheld from thee.", "Again: Cyril strenuously exhorts such newly planted ones unto godliness, so that when they go to receive baptism, they will not be rejected, like the guest spoken of in the Gospel, who did not have on a wedding garment. Therefore he says: 'Far be it, that any of those who have given in their names for baptism, and have been entered on the lists, should hear: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?"' From Vicecom., lib. 2, cap. 12, on Cyril., "Again he says (Cyril in Catech. 3, Mijstag) 'Begin to wash your garments by repentance, that, being called to the marriage of the Lamb, you may be found worthy."', "Again (Baptism. Hist., page 319, Cyril Catech. 1, Mijstag): 'Say to those who are to be baptized: Hear the voice of the prophet that saith
