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Rites auf passage: First Holy Communion, Confirmation, etc

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Rites auf passage: First Holy Communion, Confirmation, etc

What were your rites of passage?
And what kind of memory do you still have of that day?
 
For me it was this:

First Communion is a ceremony in some Christian traditions during which a person first receives the Eucharist[1]. It is most common in the Latin Church tradition of the Catholic Church, as well as in many parts of the Lutheran Church and Anglican Communion. In churches that celebrate First Communion, it typically occurs between the ages of seven and thirteen, often acting as a rite of passage.
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First Communion - Wikipedia
 
Ceremony serves its purpose, but a real rite of passage is a life event in which ones faith (whatever that may be) is tested. The ceremony is representative or foreshadowing of these events, but I don't believe it's the same.
 
ecofarm said:
Ceremony serves its purpose, but a real rite of passage is a life event in which ones faith (whatever that may be) is tested. The ceremony is representative or foreshadowing of these events, but I don't believe it's the same.
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Same or not the same, but these feasts are often called that way.
 
Rumpel said:
Same or not the same, but these feasts are often called that way.
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What the ceremony represents and when such an event actually occurred (before, after, more than once?) is more interesting than the ceremony alone.
 
Maybe maybe ...

But the ceremony is clear for everybody.
Your own secret rite of passage is not.

Don't look down on ceremonies.
Even if it has become very "modern" and "chic" to do so.
 
Secular confirmations

Several secular, mainly Humanist, organizations direct civil confirmations for older children, as a statement of their life stance that is an alternative to traditional religious ceremonies for children of that age.

Some atheist regimes have as a matter of policy fostered the replacement of Christian rituals such as confirmation with non-religious ones. In the historically Protestant German Democratic Republic (East Germany), for example, "the Jugendweihe (youth dedication) gradually supplanted the Christian practice of Confirmation."[70] A concept that first appeared in 1852, the Jugendweihe is described as "a solemn initiation marking the transition from youth to adulthood that was developed in opposition to Protestant and Catholic Churches' Confirmation."[71]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation
 
And what are your memories of those days, if you have any?
 
It is for a good reason that I continue with this topic now.
For traditionally the Sunday after Easter was called "Weißer Sonntag" in Germany.
And this was the day of the First Holy Communion for Catholic children.

Do you have any memories?
 


First Holy Communion in Ireland
 
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And hardly any answers.

:(
 
I really cannot believe, that NOBODY should have ANY memories of those days.
 
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