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Oct
4
2006

Why Bother Confirming?

Under Ecclesiastical By Peter Ould
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John H has picked up a fantastic post by All the Fullness on how confirmation snuck into our churches by the backdoor and ended up confusing the whole “who’s in and out” issue on communion.
In the early Church, baptism, confirmation, and first communion were always done together, in a single rite of Christian initiation. The [...]

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