Baptism is only the first step on the path of Christian. The most important sacrament Orthodox church is the communion. How to make children, and especially babies? What are the rules and relaxation for this? How not to overdo it, acquiring the baby to the church and its sacraments? Read about this in today's story Mom's already baptized child.
My husband and I are Orthodox Parents, and therefore our decision on the baptism of the baby was mutual. For the spiritual education of the baby answer him god-parents. We understood this, so paid special attention to the choice of future great Mom And dads for your child. And here, our baby is an Orthodox Christian.
As it turned out, the most important part of the child's spiritual education is the communion. It is necessary not only for the child to be closer to God, but also for the guardian angel, in honor of whom the baby is crushed, guarded and protected him from different troubles.
The father told us that for the first time you need to come to the communion two weeks after the baptism of the child. And it absolutely no matter what we, parents themselves are rarely or not communion at all. After all, the kid soul can know much more than adults. Children up to seven years are commued without confession, and after - as adults: you must first confess, and only then go to the sacrament.
Another important point - usually the communice occurs on an empty stomach. Of course, babies are allowed to breakfast. Only to feed the baby should at least half an hour before the communion so that he does not break down. After three years, you must still try not to feed the child, but the strict framework as such does not exist up to seven years. Batyushka told that children from three years old are calmly kept without eating from the evening. The main thing is to enter it gradually and as a sacrament - than previously baby Get used to, then he will be easier for him. And a little later you can pass the kids to fast, but not strictly. For example, refuse games, cartoons, meat or something very tasty.
To the question of how often the child should begun, everyone should answer himself. Babies can every day, more adult children - once a week. We are trying to fit the kid every two weeks and for great holidays. Commission occurs on liturgies - it is better to learn in advance the time and end of service in the temple. First, children are commued, then women and men.
The baby is allowed to come directly to the communion. With more adult kids, you can come early depending on how long the child is able to withstand. As a rule, children do not like to stay in the church for a long time, I remember it by myself. It always seemed to me that there is very stuffy, it is necessary to stand for a very long time without movement. It should be understood that the patience in children is smaller, but energy is the opposite, more. Everything needs to be suitable with understanding - if the kid can not resist for a long time in place, do not force him, causing dislike for this rite from childhood.
And so, the time of the sacrament of communion has come. The priest makes a cup from the altar and reads a prayer, whose words need to repeat and solely pray for his child. Since we go to the communion exclusively with a god dad or a baby's mother, then at that time, some of them holds a baby. Before the bowl, they do not interfere, the children are older on the chest handles crosswise, and very small kept on their right hand. The father comes to each child and says loudly: "The servant of God is coming ...", after which his name is called. Our still small, and therefore the godfather parents call his name for him. When a child is growing up, it will have to call himself by name. Then give a little kagor on a spoon, and small children are holy water. At the very end of the service, the baby is applied to the cross.
According to the custom of the Church, the babies after their baptism before the age of age can pass very often, not only every week, but every day, moreover, without prior confession and post. Starting from 5-6 years, and if possible - and from earlier age, it is useful to teach children to communion on an empty stomach.
In the temple with babies, it should be coming not to the most common, and in advance, having calculated the time so as not to be late to the communion, but at the same time the child can be in the liturgy. Of course, everyone here has its own measure, but children need to teach prayer in the church. You need to do it gradually, so as not to tire the baby and not to cause anxiety praying in the temple. Children 6-7 years old if they were correctly accustomed to the service, may be present almost throughout the liturgy.
While the child was not fulfilled by seven years, it can be seen without confession and fasting. From three or four-year-old babies, an empty stomach is usually adjacent. From about a three-year-old, children together with their parents on the eve of communion can read two or three well-known prayers.
Of course, much depends on what life parents themselves live, whether the temple is the house of the desired meeting with God, and the prayer is a second breath. Many parents bring their children to the beginning of the service, together with them they pray, are involved in themselves and bring their children to the life of their lives, and do not stand before the question of bringing a child to communion. If a somewhat different situation in the family, then you can bring young children to the beginning of the Eucharistic canon or directly to the very moment of communion.
But it is necessary to teach his child to a fertile church atmosphere, then there will be fewer problems with the behavior of a child in the holy bowl. The decision to do how to do in the event that the child is crying and does not want to communion, the priest must take, which at that moment he sees the behavior of the child. The child must also be prepared for communion. Read the canon, akathist, an excerpt from the Holy Scriptures above its crib. All this will contribute to the spiritual increase in your Chad.
Approaching the holy bowl, chest babies need to be kept horizontally, head on their right hand. Handles should be held so that the child does not accidentally pushed the bowl, or did not grab lying (spoon). Breasts should not be tightly feeding in front of the liturgy so that after the communion they did not swollen.
Parents, communion of children, should also try to start holy secrets, thereby showing the example of their children. Family is a small church, where people go to God together, they will easily save and communion from one bowl.
Little children usually fit under one type (only by the blood of Christ). But if the baby comes often and behaves at the bowl calmly, the priest can give a child (not breast) a small particle.
On the liturgy of the requested gifts of infants who do not take part, they are not involved, because on this liturgy in the bowl there is a body of Christ, aluminated by blood, and nitally wine, not implemented in the blood of the Savior.
Some parents in their nerazumiyia and Malvair are afraid to approach children, depriving them to those saving and strengthening grace. They explain this by the fact that the child, taking the sacrament from one spoon and the bowls with everyone, can infect some disease.
This fear is disbelief in the saving power of the sacrament. As a rule, it is reasoned by non-church and low-membering people, who do not know anything about the lives of the Church. The Eucharist is the greatest miracle on the ground permanently, and another proof of the truth of this miracle is that liturgy is not interrupted even during terrible epidemics of plague, cholera and other infectious deaths.
In Kiev, in the XVIII - early XIX century, he served quite famous in the city of Archpriest John Levanda. He was famous for his gift of the preacher, people were specially intended to listen to his sermons. He served in the area called the hem. In 1770, the plague epidemic began in the city, which especially raged on Podol. The bodies of the dead were covered with whole hobs. For two months, six thousand people died around in the area. And this priest did not interrupt his ministry. He confessed, sacraged, ocked, consoled his parishioners, and the disease did not touch him. And there are a lot of such cases. The priests are deacon and priests - after the communion of believers consume the remaining holy gifts. They did it always, at all times, not afraid to get infected during terrible tunes.
Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov; 1884-1962), a missionary, to be a bishop of Kamchatsky built for lepers of leproseries and consecrated the temple there. After all the leases are told, the clergymen consumed the gifts, and none of them got infected.
The Saint of Moscow Philaret (Drozdow) one official filed a report, where he narrated the courageous act of one priest and asked him to submit it to the award. This official witnessed how to one relative, a sick cholera, came for a farewell of the Holy Mysters the priest. But the patient was so we weak that he could not keep a part of the body of the Body of Christ and dropped her mouth to the floor. And this clergy, not having fluttering, consumed the fallen particle itself.
Neither the priests nor the deacons that consume the holy gifts and then climb the holy bowl, drinking water, do not get sick more often than any other people. Therefore, communizing children and their coming to communion must leave all sorts of squeamishness, fear and Maltori.
about. Pavel Gmer
Why do you drive children for the sacrament?
The most important thing is a meeting of a child with God. In addition, the child gradually takes on the temple. You will never hear from a matured child: "My mother did not teach me to go to church ..."
And more ... Many times the parents were convinced that after the communion of Pado did not sick, although the disease seemed inevitable because of analyzes or external signs. Baby with neurology behave much calmer, they are better eating and sleep with any health problems ...
Vera is a powerful source of calm and confidence for a person. And during the cross of signs, the rhythm of heartbeat is improved and breathing aligns.
Later, when Chado will begin to confess, the communion and conversation with the father may be removed by the mature child from the feeling of impunity and permissiveness, alas, peculiar to adolescent age.
It is necessary to fit the child - this is important for its spiritual and mental development, health, in order to Heavenly patron, in honor of which the child is sinking, was close to the child, guarded and protected him from all the troubles that the baby lies on his life path.
When the first time to make a child
We admit children from the moment of baptism, because in baptism, they like mysteriously immersed in Christ and begin to live his life. And our belonging to Christ does not depend on the number of our knowledge. A child with a soul can know more than his parents or more adult people. Therefore, the question is not that he does not know so much, does not understand and therefore if he can come up ... His soul came to the grace of Christ, and he communicates with him.
During worship, a bowl is taken out, in which the special sanctified bread was backed by small pieces and poured wine-diluted wine. The prayers that you naturally have read over this bowl, will be called upon by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and thus the Holy Spirit descends into this bowl and it is believed that it is invisible blood and flesh of Christ.
I'll calm all right away. No man fell ill from this. No baby got worsening. On the contrary, children need to be used as often as possible.
First arrival in the temple turn into a real holiday! If the child is older, he will like to put candles, choose a memorable icon. You can give an interesting Orthodox book, cassette; After the church - somewhere tasty food, and maybe we take a walk in cheerful company Kids, who are always a lot of the temple.
How to explain the meaning of the mystery of the baby
It would be nice to explain the meaning of the sacrament in the form available for each kid: a two-year-old daughter or son explain that this is a meeting with God. Kids do not need to talk about the body and blood of the Savior - the children to this awareness are not ready for their age and they will understand it over time or you will be able to explain this to the child in time affordable form. Here can help sunday School For children or a good conversation with a father, when the kid will grow a little and begin to understand more. But you should not tell the child about the "delicious", if we are talking about the communion. What to say? - This is a communion. So we tell our children: Sun, look, it is bread. This is porridge. This is sugar. Let's try. And the child for life absorbs the received information.
Appearance, clothes of parents and children
For Mom - it is desirable to put on a long skirt, a handkerchief and a jig with long sleeves (three-quarters "sleeve in the heat). For the monastery, these conditions are strictly mandatory. But the clothes can be beautiful, and festive, on the canons "in black" only widows go to the temple of God.
For children - the girl should be in a hat or handkerchief, and the son is without a headdress. By the way, you should turn off the church cellular telephone. In winter, in the temple you need to remove mittens. Upper clothes can be removed or unzipped.
Is it possible to feed children before communion
Until 3 years there is no restrictions in food. Breasts can be calmly feed, but it is preferably a bit in advance (at least for 30 minutes, although if there is an opportunity, it is better to 1.5 hours before the communion) so that the baby does not shook after the communion.
After three years, children are tested on an empty stomach. It is impossible to drink even holy water (the question of taking drugs can be asked the priest).
But after the sacrament, feed the kids is not plentiful, especially if you get to the house by car.
When to come to the sacrament with kids
Best of all, of course, know the service schedule in advance. Most often, liturgy (communion only on liturgy) begins on weekdays and on Saturdays - at 8, and on Sunday and on holidays - at 7 and at 9 or 10 in the morning.
However, in some temples can be a little different: at 7, 7.30 or 6.30 am ...
When to give kids to communion. Adults can look at the child's condition if he behaves calmly stand up and in service. Usually, small children bring in front of themselves, which is happening after the prayer "Our Father", usually in 50 minutes, an hour after the start of worship, but you need to be prepared that the service will be longer. The schedule is always hung in advance. Children up to 7 years old can be in service with adults or walking near the temple.
Participle
Before going to the bowl (to the communion), take the blessing from the father who confesses (stand in the queue with children does not need). If there are no Batyushki - go to the communion and tell about this to the priest, which sends.
Communion - the biggest shrine, the Lord itself God! By the way, that is why before the bowl does not suffer.
Older children fold on the chest handle crushed (right - on top of the left). Kids adults plant on the right (!) Hand, and babies put on the right hand head. Nipples before the bowl do not give. This is done so that neither a single drop of communion is shedding on clothes.
Altarists during the communion hold a special red fabric - boards, and the mouth of the baby will necessarily burst.
And be sure to explain the baby that the particle must be swallowed. And better - trace yourself, especially for the first time.
If the droplet of the communion fell on clothes or the child jumped after the communion - go to the father and tell me about it.
First, children are involved. After the words of the father: "Slave God comes ..." - you need to clearly call church name Child (the name with which the child was baptized). For babies, the name calls an adult, and older children call their names independently.
After the communion, not talking about themselves and not allowing to talk to the children, lead them to a special table - to the communion and take a piece of prosphora.
Then, the baby can be attached to the crucifixion or wait for the end of the service and to make a crossed, which will bring a priest at the very end of service.
It is not necessary to wait for the end of the service - see the child.
Until seven years, children are not confess.
The article is prepared by the editorial board "Children's"
according to the article "Child Commissaria"
club of Orthodox writers "Olympia"
Questions about the sacrament of communion
C.what is the communion?
This is a sacrament in which an Orthodox Christian comes (comes) the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in the remaining of sins and the eternal and through it mysteriously connects to him, by becoming a party of eternal life. The comprehension of this sacrament is superior to human understanding.
This sacrament is calledEuharustia, which means "thanksgiving."
TOaK and what is the mysteriousness of communion?
The mystery of communion is established by the Lord by the Lord Jesus Christ at a secret evening with the apostles on the eve of their suffering. He took the bread in his preching hands, blessed him, prevented and divided him to his disciples, saying: "Send, Fly: Sieu is my body" (Matt. 26:26). Then he took the cup with wine, blessed her and, feeding his students, said: "Drink everything, for this, so there is a blood of my new covenant, for many poured into leaving sins" (MF. 26: 27-28). At the same time apostles, and in their face and all believers, the Savior gave the commandment to commit this sacrament until the world's conclusion in the memoir of his suffering, death and resurrection for unity with him believers. He said: "We create this in my memoil" (Luch 22:19).
Pochra need to pass?
The Lord himself says about the obligation of communion for all believers in it: "True, truly telling you: if you do not have the flesh of the Son of Human and drinking it, then you will not have any life. The pile of my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life, and I resurrect him on the last day. For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly being. The pointed flesh and drinking my blood is in me, and I am in it "(John 6: 53-56).
Non-communizing Holy Taine deprives himself a source of life - Christ, puts himself out. A person who is looking for a connection in his life with God can hope that he will be with him in eternity.
TOaK prepare for communion?
Those who wish must have a hearty repentance, humility, the firm intention to correct. For several days are preparing for the mystery of communion. These days are preparing for confessions, they try to pray more and diligently at home, refrain from the fun and idle pastime. Prayer connects the post - bodily abstinence from rapid food and married relationships.
On the eve of the day of communion or in the morning to liturgy, it is necessary to confess to be in the evening worship. After midnight, do not eat, do not drink.
The duration of preparation, the measure of the post and the prayer rule is negotiated with the priest. However, no matter how much we have prepared for communion - we cannot prepare to prepare. And only looking at the crushed and humble heart, the Lord in his love takes us into their communication.
TOdo you need to prepare for communion?
For prayer preparation for communion there is a normal rule that is in orthodox prayerful. It consists of reading three canons: the canon of the revenue to Lord Jesus Christ, the canon of the prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, Canon Angel Keeper and the submission to the Holy Communion, which consists of canon and prayers. In the evening, it is also necessary to read prayers for dreams to the coming, and in the morning - morning prayers.
For the blessing of the confessor, this prayer rule before the communion can be reduced, increased or replaced by another.
TOak approach to communion?
Before the start of communion, communizing in advance come closer to the amvon, then not to hurry and not create inconvenience to others praying. At the same time, it is necessary to skip the kids forward, which are coming for the first. When the royal gate is open and the deacon leaves with the Holy bowl with the exclamation: "Let's start with the fear of God and faith," it is necessary to make a terrestrial bow and folded the hands on the breast conversion (right on top of the left). Approaching the holy bowl and before the bowl itself is not baptized to inadvertently do not push it. It is necessary to start the holy bowl with the fear of God and reverence. Going to the cup, it is clear to pronounce its Christian name given with baptism, to widely open the mouth, reverent, with the consciousness of the Holiness of the Great Sacrament to take the holy gifts and immediately swallow. Then kiss the base of the bowl as the edge of Christ itself. It is impossible to touch the bowl of the hands and kiss the priest's hand. Then you should move to the table with warmth, put the sacrament that the shrine does not remain in the mouth.
TOak often need to pass?
Many holy fathers call for communities as often as possible.
Usually believers are confessed and communioned in all four multi-day posts. church year, in the two-month, great and temple holidays, on Sunday days, in the days of their name and birth, spouses - on the day of their wedding.
The frequency of the participation of a Christian in the sacrament of communion is established individually for the blessing of the confessor. More consumer - at least twice a month.
D. are we witty, sinful, often commitory?
Some Christians are quickened extremely rare, motivating it with their unnecessary. There is not a single person worthy of the communion of the Holy Tain on Earth. No matter how much a person would try to clear himself before God, he still will not be worthy of adopting such the greatest shrine, like the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. God gave people the Holy Holy Secrets not by their dignity, but on the great grace and love for the fallen creature. "Not healthy have a need for a doctor, but patients" (Luke 5:31). Take the holy gifts a Christian should not as a reward for his spiritual feats, but as a gift Loving Father Heaven like a saving means of sanctification of the soul and body.
Is it possible to take one day several times?
No one and in any case, one and the same day should not be seated twice. If the holy gifts teach out of several cups, you can take them only from one.
Everyone is adjacent from one spoon, is it impossible to get sick?
There has never been a single case so that someone has become infected through a communion: even when people come in hospital churches, no one is afraid. After the communion of believers, the remaining holy gifts uses a priest or deacon, but even during epidemics they do not ill. This is the greatest sacrament of the church, this, including for the healing of the soul and body.
Is it possible to kiss the cross after the communion?
After liturgy, everyone praying is applied to the cross: and who are sacraged, and those who are not involved.
Is it possible to kiss the icons and the hand of the priest after the communion, make earthly bows?
After communion before the filming, it should be refrained from the kissing icons and the hands of the priest, but there is no such rule that the competing should not kiss the icon or the hand of the priest on this day and not do earth bows. It is important to keep tongue, thoughts and heart from any evil.
How to behave on the day of communion?
The day of communion is a special day in the life of a Christian, when he mysteriously connects with Christ. On the day of the Holy Communion, behave a reverent and usually, so as not to insult his actions with the shrine. Thanks to the Lord for great blessing. These days must be held as great holidays, as far as possible devoting their concentration and spiritual effort.
Is it possible to come in any day?
Especially always on the resurrection in the morning, as well as, on the other days, when the Divine Liturgy serve. Watch the timeline service in your temple. In our church, Liturgy serves every day, except for the period of the Great Post.
During the Great Post at some everyday days, as well as, on Wednesday and Friday, on Maslenitsa, the liturgy is not supposed
Is the communion paid?
No, in all temples the sacrament of communion is always made free.
Is it possible to come after the binding without confession?
Cobrants does not cancel the confession. Confession is needed. Sins that a person realizes must be confessable.
Is it possible to replace the sacrapiece if it is possible to replace the sacrapiece with the Epiphany Water with Artos (or Antidore)?
This erroneous opinion about the possibility of replacing the communion of baptismic water with arthos (or antidor) occurred, possibly due to the fact that people who have canonical or other obstacles to the communion of the Holy Taine are permitted to consolidate Epiphany water with antidors. However, this cannot be understood as an equivalent replacement. Communion can not be replaced.
Can an Orthodox Christian coming up in any nonsense church?
No, only in the Orthodox Church.
How to make a one-year-old child?
If the child is not able to calmly be in the temple all the service, then it can be brought by the time of communion.
Is it possible to eat for up to 7 years before communion? Is it possible to pass the patients not on an empty stomach?
This issue is solved individually on the advice with the priest.
Little children in front of the communion give there and drink as needed not to damage them nervous system and bodily health. Older children, from 4-5 years of age, gradually teach to the semistry of an empty stomach. Children from 7 years of age are involved, besides the partition of an empty stomach, also to the preparationeit of communion through prayer, post and confession, but of course in a very lightweight version.
Adults in some exceptional cases are blessed by not an empty stomach.
Can children take up to 14 years old without confession?
Without confession, only children under 7 years old can pass. From 7 years of age, children are involved after confession.
Is it possible to communion pregnant?
Can. Pregnant women are desirable to pass the Saints of Christ Tain more often, preparing for communion with repentance, confession, prayer and fasting, which for pregnant women weakens.
The church of the child is desirable to start from the moment parents found out that they will have a child. In the womb, the child perceives everything that happens to her mother and around her. At this time, participation in the sacraments and prayer of parents is very important.
How to make it sick at home?
The relatives of the patient must first agree with the priest about the time of communion and consult how to prepare the patient to this sacrament.
When can you come around at the week to the Great Post?
In the period of the Great Post, children are involved in Saturdays and Sundays. Adults, in addition to Saturday and Resurrection, can communion on Wednesdays and Fridays, when the liturgy of the paid gifts serve. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to the Great Post of Liturgy did not hold, except for the days of great church holidays.
Why did the babies come accelerated on the liturgy of paid gifts?
On the liturgy of the paid gifts in the cup contains only blessed wine, and the particles of the lamb (bread, the pretty in the body of Christ) are pre-impregnated with blood. Since babies, due to their physiology, it is impossible to make a particle of the body, and there is no blood in the bowl, they are not perfected by the blood.
Can the laitys come across a solid sadmice? How do they prepare for communion at this time? Can a priest ban commits for Easter?
When preparing for communion on a solid semitz, there is always afraid of short food. At this time, the preparation for communion consists in repentance, reconciliation with the neighbor and reading the prayer rule for communion.
Commission for Easter is the goal and joy for everyone orthodox Christian. The entire Holy Fourth is preparing us for communion in Easter night: "We will erect to repentance, and feelings will clean up, to Smyzh Brani, the entrance of the post is creative: the hope of graceful heart is not interested, not used in fucking. And we will be demolished by the Lamb of God, in the sacred and light-blooded night of the resurrection, for the sake of the given migration, the student introduced in the evening of the sacrament, and the darkness of the ruin of the Light of His Resurrection "(the styer on the notch, in the meat suite in the evening).
Prep. Nicodemus Svyatogorets says: "Those who, though, do not come to Easter, but they don't celebrate Easter, such people do not celebrate ... Because these people do not have the causes and occasion of the holiday, who are the sweet Jesus Christ, and do not have The spiritual joy that is born from Divine Promotion. "
When Christians wanden from communion on a bright week, the fathers of the Trullian Cathedral (so-called the five-sixth cathedral) of the 66th rule witnessed the initial tradition: "From the Holy Day of the Resurrection of Christ of our God before the week, in the whole week, the faithful Saints churches incessantly exercising in the psalms and singing and songs of spiritual, rejoice and triumph in Christ, and the reading of divine writings attentive, and the holy mysters enjoying. For in this way, with Christ, they are as follows and ascended. "
Thus, the communion for Easter, in the days of Light Sadmitsa, and in general, on continuous weeks, no one from Orthodox Christians is not yet rebeling, who can be allowed to holy communion on other days of the church year.
What are the rules of prayer preparation for communion?
Volume prayer rule Before communion, the canons of the church are not regulated. For Chad of the Russian Orthodox Church, he should be no less than the rules of the Holy Communion in our prayers, including three psalms, canon and prayers before communion.
There is also a pious tradition of reading three canons and akathist before the adoption of the Holy Taine of Holy Tain: the canon of the rest of our Jesus Christ, canon to the Virgin, Canon the Guardian Angel.
Does confession need before each communion?
The mandatory confession before the partition canons of the church is not regulated. Confession before each communion is a Russian tradition caused by an extremely rare communion of Christians in the synodal period of the history of the Russian Church.
For those who came for the first time or with heavy sins, for the newcomers of Christians, confession is obligatory for the incoming, since for them, a frequent confession and instructions of the priest have an important catechosis and pastoral importance.
Currently, a regular confession should be encouraged, but not from every believer should require an indispensable confession before each communion. In coordination with the confessor for persons regularly confessional and communal, observing church rules And posts installed by the Church, the individual rhythm of confession and communion can be installed (Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)).
Communion of children
Why do you drive children for the sacrament?
The most important thing is a meeting of a child with God. In addition, the child gradually takes on the temple. You will never hear from a matured child: "My mother did not teach me to go to church ..."
And more ... Many times the parents were convinced that after the communion of Pado did not sick, although the disease seemed inevitable because of analyzes or external signs. Baby with neurology behave much calmer, they are better eating and sleep with any health problems ...
Vera is a powerful source of calm and confidence for a person. And during the cross of signs, the rhythm of heartbeat is improved and breathing aligns.
Later, when Chado will begin to confess, the communion and conversation with the father may be removed by the mature child from the feeling of impunity and permissiveness, alas, peculiar to adolescent age.
It is necessary to fit the child - this is important for his spiritual and mental development, health, so that the heavenly patron, in honor of whom the child is painted, was close to the child, guarded and protected him from all the troubles that the baby lies on his life path.
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When the first time to make a child
We admit children from the moment of baptism, because in baptism, they like mysteriously immersed in Christ and begin to live his life. And our belonging to Christ does not depend on the number of our knowledge. A child with a soul can know more than his parents or more adult people. Therefore, the question is not that he does not know so much, does not understand and therefore if he can come up ... His soul came to the grace of Christ, and he communicates with him.
During worship, a bowl is taken out, in which the special sanctified bread was backed by small pieces and poured wine-diluted wine. The prayers that you naturally have read over this bowl, will be called upon by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ and thus the Holy Spirit descends into this bowl and it is believed that it is invisible blood and flesh of Christ.
I'll calm all right away. No man fell ill from this. No baby got worsening. On the contrary, children need to be used as often as possible.
First arrival in the temple turn into a real holiday! If the child is older, he will like to put candles, choose a memorable icon. You can give an interesting Orthodox book, cassette; After the church - somewhere delicious food, and maybe we are walking in a funny company kids who are always a lot of the temple.
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How to explain the meaning of the rite baby
It would be nice to explain the meaning of the rite in the form available for each kid: a two-year-old daughter or son explain that this meeting with God. The kids do not need to talk about the body and blood of the Savior - the children to this awareness are not ready for their age and they will understand it over time or you will be able to explain it in an affordable child over time. Here, a Sunday school can help for children or a good conversation with a father when the kid will grow a little and starts to understand more. But you should not tell the child about the "delicious", if we are talking about the communion. What to say? - This is a communion. So we tell our children: Sun, look, it is bread. This is porridge. This is sugar. Let's try. And the child for life absorbs the received information.
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Appearance, clothes of parents and children
For Mom - it is desirable to put on a long skirt, a handkerchief and a jig with long sleeves (three-quarters "sleeve in the heat). For the monastery, these conditions are strictly mandatory. But the clothes can be beautiful, and festive, on the canons "in black" only widows go to the temple of God.
For children - the girl should be in a hat or handkerchief, and the son is without a headdress. By the way, you should turn off the cell phone in the church. In winter, in the temple you need to remove mittens. Upper clothes can be removed or unzipped.
Is it possible to feed children before communion
Until 3 years there is no restrictions in food. Breasts can be calmly feed, but it is preferably a bit in advance (at least for 30 minutes, although if there is an opportunity, it is better to 1.5 hours before the communion) so that the baby does not shook after the communion.
After three years, children are tested on an empty stomach. It is impossible to drink even holy water (the question of taking drugs can be asked the priest).
But after the sacrament, feed the kids is not plentiful, especially if you get to the house by car.
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When to come to the sacrament with kids
Best of all, of course, know the service schedule in advance. Most often, liturgy (communion only on liturgy) begins on weekdays and on Saturdays - at 8, and on Sunday and on holidays - at 7 and at 9 or 10 in the morning.
However, in some temples can be a little different: at 7, 7.30 or 6.30 am ...
When to give kids to communion. Adults can look at the child's condition if he behaves calmly stand up and in service. Usually, small children bring in front of themselves, which is happening after the prayer "Our Father", usually in 50 minutes, an hour after the start of worship, but you need to be prepared that the service will be longer. The schedule is always hung in advance. Children up to 7 years old can be in service with adults or walking near the temple.
Participle
Before going to the bowl (to the communion), take the blessing from the father who confesses (stand in the queue with children does not need). If there are no Batyushki - go to the communion and tell about this to the priest, which sends.
Communion - the biggest shrine, the Lord itself God! By the way, that is why before the bowl does not suffer.
Older children fold on the chest handle crushed (right - on top of the left). Kids adults plant on the right (!) Hand, and babies put on the right hand head. Nipples before the bowl do not give. This is done so that neither a single drop of communion is shedding on clothes.
Altarists during the communion hold a special red fabric - boards, and the mouth of the baby will necessarily burst.
And be sure to explain the baby that the particle must be swallowed. And better - trace yourself, especially for the first time.
If the droplet of the communion fell on clothes or the child jumped after the communion - go to the father and tell me about it.
First, children are involved. After the words of the father: "The servant of God comes ..." - you need to clearly call the church name of the child (the name with which the child was baptized). For babies, the name calls an adult, and older children call their names independently.
After the communion, not talking about themselves and not allowing to talk to the children, lead them to a special table - to the communion and take a piece of prosphora.
Then, the baby can be attached to the crucifixion or wait for the end of the service and to make a crossed, which will bring a priest at the very end of service.
It is not necessary to wait for the end of the service - see the child.
Until seven years, children are not confess.
The article is prepared by the editorial board "Children's"
According to the article "Child Commissaria"
Club of Orthodox writers "Olympia"