Reasonable parents do not neglect the spiritual education of their children and make a lot of efforts to get their children on the right path in life. A baby can be a participant in the sacrament of the sacrament from the moment of baptism. How to properly prepare a child for the sacrament?
Instructions
Step 1
Teach your child about the ordinance of the sacrament. Complete and comprehensive information about him can be gleaned from church literature. The kid can be told that he will go to visit God, where he will be treated to something sweet and from this he will become healthy, intelligent and obedient. Ideally, the child should be familiar with the sacrament of communion from a very young age, and it should not cause such reactions in him as "I do not want" and "I will not." If a child received communion from infancy, he knows that for a few days before the sacrament, an atmosphere of balance and peace reigns in the family, and adults and children over seven years old observe the fast.
Step 2
Prepare your child for the sacrament. Until the age of seven, the baby is given communion without confession. Observance of the fast in this case is also not required. After 7 years of age, the child must, to the best of his ability and health, observe a three-day fast. Determine the degree of its severity yourself, since nobody but you knows the child so well.
Step 3
Talk to your child about confession on the eve of communion. It is believed that the seven-year plan is already able to define good and evil, good and bad. Let the child remember those actions of which he needs to repent. First of all, these are those acts for which he is ashamed, painful and offensive. Then discuss with him all the cases when you had quarrels and misunderstandings. Let him analyze what causes conflicts. If he has anything to repent of, then repentance should be sincere and from a pure heart.
Step 4
Read the communion rule for the child in the evening. It can be found in almost all prayer books. The rule consists of three canons and the succession to communion. If it is difficult for a child to perceive all the necessary prayers at once, read only the canon from the following. And he will hear the rest of the prayers in the church.
Step 5
Avoid giving your child water or drink in the morning. Before going to church, make sure your child has not forgotten how to be baptized. After confession, the priest will cover his head with an epitrachil and read a special prayer of permission. After that, the child will have to cross himself, kiss the cross and the Gospel, and then ask permission for the sacrament.
Step 6
After receiving communion, stay with the child in the church and pray until the end of the service. It is better for you and your child to spend the rest of the day calmly, avoiding talking, TV and unnecessary fun, in order to preserve the purity of the soul purified from sins for as long as possible.
