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  • Thumbnail for Order of Christian Initiation of Adults
    called Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). In the United States, the name was changed to the OCIA in 2021 to reflect greater fidelity to the original...
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    A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change...
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    Another example is the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The term "rite" became widely used after the Second Vatican Council. While "rite" is often associated...
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    ISBN 0-8146-2164-3 Fisher, J.D.C., (1970) Christian initiation. The Reformation period. Some early reformed rites of Baptism and Confirmation and other contemporary...
    5 KB (549 words) - 17:41, 23 March 2023
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    ceremony. Among those Christians who practice teen-aged confirmation, the practice may be perceived, secondarily, as a "coming of age" rite. In many Protestant...
    74 KB (8,628 words) - 16:10, 8 July 2024
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    persuaded. The Roman Catholic Church revived the catechumenate with its Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) wherein being a catechumen is one of a number...
    28 KB (3,488 words) - 02:13, 17 June 2024
  • Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, a process developed by the Catholic Church for prospective converts to Catholicism who are above the age of infant...
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    Baptism (redirect from Baptism (Christian))
    water') is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by sprinkling or pouring water on the head, or...
    222 KB (23,332 words) - 17:15, 27 June 2024
  • (1988). Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults: Approved for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of America by the National Conference of Catholic...
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    "In the Eastern rites the Christian initiation of infants also begins with Baptism followed immediately by Confirmation (Chrismation) and the Eucharist...
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    formal rite of passage comparable to the Christian Confirmation. Some of these ceremonies are even called "civil confirmations". The purpose of these ceremonies...
    37 KB (4,819 words) - 16:39, 21 June 2024
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    Americans. For Aboriginal Australians and Polynesians, circumcision likely started as a blood sacrifice and a test of bravery and became an initiation rite with...
    143 KB (15,694 words) - 12:47, 25 June 2024
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    Confirmation in the Catholic Church is one of the seven sacraments. It is also one of the three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church, the other two...
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    Ulwaluko (category Rites of passage)
    traditional circumcision and initiation from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people, and is...
    17 KB (2,083 words) - 20:57, 6 July 2024
  • order for young women would be beneficial. The first Initiation consisted of a class of 171 young women on April 6, 1922, in the auditorium of the Scottish...
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    congregation's priest or minister. The rite used would be the same as that denomination's rite for adults, i.e., by pouring holy water (affusion) or by sprinkling...
    64 KB (7,267 words) - 04:00, 21 June 2024
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    that are far from the Church. This itinerary of formation adapts the rites of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) for those that have already...
    47 KB (4,975 words) - 02:05, 7 July 2024
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    Baptismal font (category Christian worship and liturgy)
    as a receptacle for baptismal water used for baptism, as a part of Christian initiation for both rites of infant and adult baptism. The earliest western...
    17 KB (1,856 words) - 12:05, 5 July 2024
  • Liminality (redirect from Liminal rite)
    better understanding of "tripartite structure" of liminal situations, one can look at a specific rite of initiation: the initiation of youngsters into adulthood...
    70 KB (9,082 words) - 13:35, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of baptism
    Christians, using an adaptation of the rite intended for adults, became more common than baptisms of adult converts, the number of catechumens decreased. As...
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