… Mario F. Lages Mario F. Lages argued that early Jerusalem practice, too, knew an original 3-week Lenten preparation period of catechumens for paschal baptism. This lectionary includes a canon of Lenten readings with concluding psalmody assigned to Wednesday and Friday gatherings at Sion and a list of 19 catechetical biblical readings assigned to Lenten catechesis, which parallel the pre-baptismal catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem. Lages also pointed to the introductory rubric in the 9th or 10th-century Armenian rite of baptism and to a pertinent rubric in the 5th-century Georgian Lectionary. The Armenian baptismal rubric reads in part:
