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**zabiqapara** · 07-29-2008, 05:51 AM

Adults who enter would be confirmed first, but that's an accident of the liturgy. Since the eucharist comes at the end and the other sacrements come earlier it just works out that way.

The typical cradle to grave order of sacrements would go something like:

1)Baptism
2)(1st) Confession (~7 years old)
3)(1st) Eucharist (~8 years old)
4)Confirmation (~13 years old)
5)Matrimony or Holy Orders
6)Extreme Unction

Ages were what I was for them. Confession is tightly linked to the Eucharist because you're supposed to go through with a clean moral slate. They're set at about 7 or 8 years old because that's the age the Church feels children should be able to distinguish between right and wrong.

Confirmation is more of a coming of age ritual, like a bar mitzvah. It's the official adulthood for the Church, e.g. any confirmed male is technically eligible for the papacy.

07-29-2008, 05:51 AM	#28
zabiqapara Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Adults who enter would be confirmed first, but that's an accident of the liturgy. Since the eucharist comes at the end and the other sacrements come earlier it just works out that way. The typical cradle to grave order of sacrements would go something like: 1)Baptism 2)(1st) Confession (~7 years old) 3)(1st) Eucharist (~8 years old) 4)Confirmation (~13 years old) 5)Matrimony or Holy Orders 6)Extreme Unction Ages were what I was for them. Confession is tightly linked to the Eucharist because you're supposed to go through with a clean moral slate. They're set at about 7 or 8 years old because that's the age the Church feels children should be able to distinguish between right and wrong. Confirmation is more of a coming of age ritual, like a bar mitzvah. It's the official adulthood for the Church, e.g. any confirmed male is technically eligible for the papacy.
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