Word: christe
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...point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will maintain separate worship services, but the clergy will share in other pastoral functions...
...Christian rituals, few are subject to more varied interpretation than confirmation. For Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, it is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ; for Protestants it is a church-created rite signifying the recipient's mature acceptance of faith. Despite the differences, both Catholics and Protestants are currently giving new thought to the meaning of confirmation-and to the age at which it should take place...
...raised to that of normal high school graduation; in Rochester, as in most other U.S. Catholic dioceses, children have traditionally been confirmed between the ages of nine and twelve. Explaining the change, Sheen declared: "At present, bishops are asked to confirm tots and send them out as soldiers of Christ. Confirmation should not be administered generally before the candidate is ready to exercise his lay priesthood in the world." At the same time, Sheen wants to inaugurate a new and so far unnamed ceremony for young Catholics at the age of 13, in the form of "a renewal of baptismal...
Reformation leaders rejected the traditional opinion that confirmation was a Christ-founded sacrament of the same importance as baptism or Holy Communion; but many churches have preserved the ritual as a way of sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement...
Signifying Maturity. In other Protestant churches the rite has somewhat less significance. In the United Church of Christ liturgy, confirmation indicates that a person is "accepted into full church membership." Methodists have a simple "order for confirmation and reception into the church," carried out by the minister by the laying on of hands...