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To: NYer
I have some personal commentary to offer on this, I think, but until then, here is a website with much discussion on this.

Infant communion

It is not uncommon at all to see women in line for communion with a 3 month old infant. Usually, the infant is given the Mysteries first, then the mom.

13 posted on 01/31/2004 11:50:48 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema
A very interesting history on Infant Communion.

"n these circumstances the Church began to feel uneasy about the communion of persons who might not be able to swallow the host. "

This was my first thought. How does one deal with an infant who 'spits up' the consecrated host. As for dipping fingers in the Sacred Blood and placing it in the mouth of an infant to suckle ... well, I believe that the introduction of microbiology probably nixed that practice.

It is not uncommon at all to see women in line for communion with a 3 month old infant.

So it is the mother who determines when an infant is old enough to commune?

14 posted on 02/01/2004 7:08:28 AM PST by NYer (Ad Jesum per Mariam)
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To: NYer
Now here is my question for you. How do you accept the long time period between baptismal regeneration and the seal of the Holy Spirit? Does that mean the infant is without the Holy Spirit until they have confirmation?

And how does baptism also confer church membership in your church, as it does in ours?

17 posted on 02/01/2004 8:03:05 AM PST by MarMema
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