--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> Anyone know if Eastern Rite Catholics bring
> infants to Communion? Padraic, have you seen
> it?
Yes, they do.
> (Or have you seen any
> other children obviously too young for First
> Communion in the Latin Rite
> receiving Communion in the Eastern Rite
> parishes you've visited? That
> would also indicate the same thing.)
>
> Does the West have anything like the naming of
> the child and the Churching
> of mother and child? On the eighth day after
> the birth of the child (and
> we count inclusively, so we would think of it
> as the seventh, whereas
> Orthodox call it the eighth - it's the same day
> of the week as the child
> was born on), the priest comes and there is a
> little service of naming the child.
Nothing like that. Generally at baptism, the
child is "introduced" to the community by name.
> On the fortieth day after the birth of the
> child, the mother and child
> return to Church. The mother, at least, hasn't
> been to Church since the
> birth, and the child hasn't been brought unless
> it was to be baptized.
Curious. There are certainly no such strictures
on women going to church after giving birth in RC
tradition.
Padraic.
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