Cyril of Jerusalem and the office of the readings

In today's non-biblical reading from the Liturgy of the hours, we are given a part of a catechetical instruction by St Cyril of Jerusalem.  I was struck with how appropriate the opening paragraph was for our country today:

If there is any slave of sin here present, he should at once prepare himself, through faith for the rebirth into freedom that makes us God's adopted children. He should lay aside the wretchedness of slavery to sin and put on the joyful slavery of the Lord, so as to be accounted worthy to inherit the kingdom of heaven.  By acknowledging your sins strip away your former self, seduced as it is by destructive desires, and put on the new self, renewed in the likeness of its creator.  Through faith receive the pledge of the Holy Spirit, so that you may be welcomed into the everlasting dwelling places.