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Does anyone know when the practice of laying hands after baptism turned into chrismation?
Does anyone know when the practice of laying hands after baptism turned into chrismation?
This is all very informative thank you. I suppose I wonder why the bishops couldn't or didn't authorize the priests to continue the tradition of laying hands after baptism. After all they give authority for priests to perform baptisms.
Thanks. I was trying to remember if he did this to me during my chrismation. It was kind of a blur!the priests do. watch an Orthodox baptism, one of the first (and most common) things the priest does is lay his hands on the illumined. and the priest is the one who applies the chrism.
Yes thanks. Ithink its interesting that they both did this.Aside, deacons can baptize but not perform the chrismation.. which gives clarity to the story of Philip in acts 8
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
In the Catholic Church, it is still the bishop who does the chrismation, so all the children who had been baptized since the last time the bishop visited, would all be chrismation together the next time he was there. Over time it began to be left until the children had reached their teens and it is the reason the Latin rite does not give communion to infants.
In the Orthodox Church when a child is baptised, they are also chrismated and can immediately begin receiving Holy Communion. They are full members of the body of Christ from the get go.
That's right. Entry into the Church is through the three fold sacraments of Baptism, Chrismated and Holy Communion.the reception into the Church technically doesn't stop until the first communion as well