What to do?
In any case, parents of children should remember that communion is not such a long moment as the service itself: it is +/– 10 minutes of time. In addition, children are brought up, or they come up first, before adults. In order not to stand with the child during the entire service (although no one forbids this), you can bring him to the temple for Communion itself (go into the temple at the words of the clergyman “come with the fear of God and faith”) and take him out after Communion.
If it is cold or hot in the temple, try to monitor the baby’s temperature by wrapping him up or uncovering him. If it’s stuffy, try to take a place near the salt, there are fewer people there and it’s less stuffy (they usually crowd in the vestibule).
To prevent the baby from having a stomach ache from hunger, feed him before Communion. Fasting does not apply to infants. An attempt to “put” infants on fasting leads to a natural feeling of hunger, which is very painful for the child if he is not allowed to eat. A child at this age does not understand the meaning of fasting. Fasting for children of this age is not obligatory and is even harmful to their health.
If the baby wakes up, try to lull him to sleep, he will cry less.
If the child is sick, you can give medicine if necessary.
Symptoms of inflammation
During the normal healing process, the pain after tooth extraction lasts 1-2 days, after which it gradually subsides, the wound becomes covered with a blood clot and heals over time. With inflammation, the pain can come in waves, not subside or even intensify. The nature of the pain is pulsating, can radiate to the ear, and manifests itself after eating. Does not respond to painkillers.
When examining yourself, pay attention to the following signs:
- the gums at the extraction site are red;
- the socket is dry, a blood clot does not form or is quickly destroyed;
- there is a gray or yellow coating;
- bleeding from the socket;
- increased body temperature;
- unpleasant taste and odor from the mouth;
- enlargement of the submandibular lymph nodes.
If at least one of the listed signs is present, you should consult a doctor. There is a suspicion of alveolitis.
Soulful reasons
One of the reasons for children's reluctance to receive communion is fear of the unknown. This fear is expressed by crying (in infants and slightly older children) or physical resistance and persistence (older children). Infants have no mechanism of resistance other than to express their anxiety by crying; older children may be physically stubborn; they try to persuade such children in every possible way.
Children's fear is evoked by prejudices and “horror stories”, even used jokingly. Parents, feeling the authority of the priest for their child, try to manipulate pastoral authority in order to achieve their goals, or to develop obedience in the child. Manipulating the image of a punishing priest who can cut out a child’s tongue for children’s misdeeds is not the best technique in parental pedagogy. The parent understands that the priest is not like that, but the child’s psyche is not yet able to confidently separate a joke from the truth and a game from reality (especially at primary school age). In the child’s consciousness, a priest appears, endowed with the qualities that his parents ascribed to him. The image of a priest-judge, punishing not only with words, but also with deeds, only repels the child, especially at the moment of Communion.
Vomiting and diarrhea after communion
Still, in my opinion, those who deliberately allow spitting, chewing gum, etc., on the day of communion, are wrong, frivolously citing the fact that 2 hours have already passed or the fact that they washed down the drink. Even if everything has already been consumed. BUT THE ATTITUDE ITSELF in such cases is correct?
And YOU are correct. God help you. Well, of course, leave all sorts of pseudo-Christian inventions (which some expressed in the topic) about “changes in energy” or “about everything unclean coming out of you” without attention. These are all false fabrications.
What to do?
If children are given communion from childhood (the earlier, the better), then they will develop a reflex that not everything is so scary in the world around them. After all, the child definitely perceives his parents positively (without internal judgment, good/bad), and everyone who is not a parent is a threat until he himself understands “what is good and what is bad.”
Therefore, other people's voices, other people's touches and manipulations over the baby, and especially those that give him unpleasant sensations, are acutely perceived by children. The reaction to the latter is well known to doctors: the baby is brought to the hospital for examination, entrusted to non-parental hands, the baby subconsciously feels threatened and cries, thereby expressing the full range of his indignation and wanting to return to his own hands.
Gradually, this turns into a reflex: many persons (clergy) bowing before his gaze with metal objects (a bowl, a spoon) will trigger the “doctor - pain” reflex. As a result, the baby begins to cry. The crying of other children is an alarm signal for him, despite the absolute calm in the environment.
Any disrespect for a clergyman, expressed in words or deeds, casually as a joke or seriously, is fleetingly deposited in a child’s memory and firmly imprinted in the mind, creating a distorted image of a priest in the child’s psyche.
Why is that? Because in this case, the child perceives the immutability of the parents’ words as truth. Often, the words of parents for children are the ultimate truth (by adolescence, this “gullibility” disappears).
Temptations associated with Communion
The Holy Mysteries - the Body and Blood of Christ - are the most precious Shrine on earth. Already here, in the realities of the earthly world, the Eucharist introduces us to the benefits of the Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, a Christian should try to be especially vigilant regarding this Sacrament. There are temptations that await a Christian who wishes to receive communion. You need to know them, and you need to protect yourself from them. Some temptations precede our reception of the Holy Mysteries, while others follow Communion.
For example, one of the main temptations, very common these days, is associated with assessing the personal qualities of the priest performing the Liturgy. Thus, an invisible enemy is trying to sow rumors among believers about the sins of clergy and that not every priest can receive communion. If they notice shortcomings in a priest, then for some reason they think that such a person does not need to receive communion and that the grace of Communion will be diminished from this.
The Fatherland tells the story of how a presbyter from a nearby church came to a certain hermit and taught him the Holy Mysteries. Someone, visiting the hermit, told him about the sins of the presbyter, and when the presbyter came again, the hermit did not even open the door for him. The presbyter left, and the elder heard a voice from God: “People have taken My judgment for themselves.” After this, the hermit was given a vision. He saw a golden well with unusually good water. This well was owned by a leper who drew water and poured it into a golden vessel. The hermit suddenly felt unbearable thirst, but, abhorring lepers, did not want to take water from him. And again a voice came to him: “Why don’t you drink this water? What does it matter who draws it? He only draws and pours into the vessel.” The hermit, having come to his senses, understood the meaning of the vision and repented of his action. Then he called the presbyter and asked him to teach Holy Communion as before. So, before Communion, we should think not about how pious the priest performing the Sacrament is, but about whether we ourselves are worthy of being partakers of the Holy Gifts.
The Holy Mysteries are not the personal property of the priest. He is only a minister, and the administrator of the Holy Gifts is the Lord Himself
Let us remember that the Holy Mysteries are not the personal property of the priest. He is only a minister, and the administrator of the Holy Gifts is the Lord Himself. God acts in the Church through the clergy. Therefore, St. John Chrysostom said: “When you see that a priest is teaching you the Gifts, know that... it is Christ who is stretching out his hand to you.” Shall we reject this hand?
It happens that Christians who regularly partake of the Holy Mysteries, trying to lead an attentive spiritual life, are suddenly tempted by unclean and blasphemous thoughts. The invisible enemy is trying to defile the mind of a Christian with his obsessions, and through this, disrupt his preparation for Communion. But thoughts are like the wind that blows regardless of our desire. The Holy Fathers command not to focus attention on incoming thoughts, so as not to get bogged down in constant internal confrontation. The more we chew on a thought, the more real it becomes in our soul and the more difficult it becomes to resist it. It is better to ignore all mental excuses, and enclose the mind in the words of prayer, knowing that the approaching thoughts are not ours, but the enemy’s. Attentive, warm prayer dispels the twilight of evil attacks, the soul is freed from mental oppression and finds blessed peace.
Such temptation is also possible in our spiritual life. A Christian diligently prepares to receive the Holy Mysteries, fasts, abstains from worldly amusements and affairs, and carefully prepares for Confession. But as soon as he took communion, he joyfully threw off all spiritual labor, as if it were an extra, unnecessary burden. He naively hopes that the received grace will now itself protect and cover him without any effort on his part. As a result, relaxation sets in, a person easily stumbles and again plunges into the cycle of worldly vanity. Carelessly relying on God's help, such a person soon loses the gifts of Holy Communion. It is important to remember that God's grace does not save us without us. And in the ascetic teaching of the Church there is the concept of “synergy”, that is, “co-laboration”. The Lord creates and transforms the soul with our constant personal effort, participation, and assistance.
There is a temptation of the opposite nature. Seeing that some time after the Sacrament the sinful dust again settles on our soul, a cowardly person despairs and decides that there was little point in the Sacraments of Confession and Communion. What is the point of going to the Sacraments when sin still manifests itself in us? However, if we did not confess and receive communion, then we would not notice anything sinful in ourselves, we would lose sensitivity to sin and would begin to treat ourselves and our salvation completely indifferently. A ray of sun, penetrating into a room, shows how much dust is in the air, so in the light of the grace of the Sacraments, our shortcomings and infirmities become visible.
Spiritual reasons
Spiritual reasons include the insufficient spiritual life of both the child and his close environment in which he grows up: parents, loved ones, the influence of school and street. When a person is spiritually weak, evil forces can act on him, harming his spiritual, mental, and sometimes physical health. A child's tender psyche, not strong enough mentally and spiritually, is the most vulnerable to demons.
How can this manifest itself? For example, a calm child, approaching to take communion, suddenly suddenly becomes aggressive. He resists unnaturally strongly for his age and in every possible way interferes with communion, shouting bad words, grimacing threateningly, and displaying “unchildish behavior” that is unnatural for him.
This behavior indicates that evil forces are acting through the child, which exceed his strength, which is very noticeable in each specific case. The action of demons can also be revealed in the unnatural force of screaming, sometimes an abusive scream, persistently threatening, immediately before communion.
Why are demons afraid that a child will receive communion? Because they once rejected Christ and, improving in every way in this, strive to turn man away from God. After all, in the words of the classic F. M. Dostoevsky, “the battlefield of the devil with God is the hearts of people.”
I can't be silent
First Communion
In Orthodoxy there is such a “sacrament” as communion. I am writing about it because, according to the Orthodox leadership, it is “the main thing” for any believer. In fact, it consists in the fact that a person must drink a teaspoon of the contents of a certain “cup” and eat certain “particles” that the priest puts into a spoon with liquid. The contents of the “cup” and the particles supposedly symbolize the “blood and flesh” of Christ. Moreover, the church claims that during this rite (“liturgy”) the contents of the cup and “particles” actually turn into blood and flesh.
“Communion (Communion, the acceptance of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ) is a Sacrament in which an Orthodox Christian, not symbolically, but really and livingly unites with Christ God to the extent that he is prepared for this. The image of this union is incomprehensible to rational perception, just as the mystery of the transformation of bread and wine into the Most Pure Body and Blood of Christ is incomprehensible” ( https://www.bogoslovy.ru/tainstva3.htm )
Particularly important, from the point of view of the church, is the so-called “first communion,” to which it is recommended to “bring” infants as early as possible. Ideally - breastfeeding. And there - without asking their consent or desire - infants are given communion only with the Blood, and they are given “just a little.”
On most forums, parents complain that children categorically do not want to drink the contents of the “cup” and eat pieces of an unknown substance, especially for the first time.
". One more thing about the sacrament: this is - how to say? - difficult and complex in its own way. We partake of the Most Pure Body and Blood of Christ. And I know one family, four children, believing parents, who explained to the children that they would eat the Flesh of Christ and drink His Blood. And the children were so horrified that they once and for all - they were now over forty years old - refused to take communion. Because it was presented to them in such a way that, in essence, it meant: “meat and blood.” ( https://azbyka.ru/?parkhomenko/rodit. detey_v_vere=20 ).
The procedure is clear. The “sacrament” itself is arranged with the greatest care, and there are a number of strange rules in it: 1.
Not a single drop of the substance from the “bowl” should fall on clothing or the floor.
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If any amount of the substance gets on clothes, then on the spot, right in the church, you must cut off the piece of fabric where the substance got in and give it to the priest, supposedly for “burning”.
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If a substance that gets onto clothing in any way is found at home (the child vomited, vomited, or dripped, but was not noticed in church), the clothing should be immediately burned, if possible without touching or examining.
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To prevent the “leakage” of the substance during the “sacrament,” a specially trained person holds a red “plate” under the chin of the communicant, a cloth that is also used to wipe the mouth after communion (traces of the substance, even if it gets in, are not visible on it).
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No one ever sees what is in the “bowl”, and no one ever takes this substance for analysis.
In two strange cases, when “those receiving communion” for some reason saw this substance (they were non-believers and specially came to see), it turned out to be really blood and meat (Christ’s, of course): “Eating the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist is an action not symbolic, but quite real. Not everyone can accommodate this secret. Rationalists try to “bypass” the mystery, reducing mysticism to a symbol. The proud perceive what is inaccessible to their reason as an insult: Leo Tolstoy blasphemously called the sacrament “cannibalism.” For others it is a wild superstition, for others it is an anachronism. But the children of the Church of Christ know that in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, under the guise of bread and wine, they truly partake of the Body and Blood of Christ in Their essence. Indeed, it is not human nature to eat raw flesh and blood, and therefore at Communion the Gifts of Christ are hidden under the image of bread and wine. Nevertheless, hidden under the outer shell of perishable matter is the incorruptible substance of the Divine nature. Sometimes, by special permission, the Lord lifts this veil of mystery and allows those in doubt to see the true nature of the Holy Gifts. 6.
In addition, children often feel sick from what they eat and drink during the “sacrament,” and as a result there is a special rule: after “eating” from the “cup,” one must go and drink it and eat it.
For these purposes, there is a drink “warmth” and some flour products. Particular care is required to remain silent after communion, so as not to accidentally spit out a single molecule of what you have eaten or drunk. (“The liar must be thoroughly licked with his lips, and after wiping his lips with a cloth, kiss the edge of the cup with reverence. Then, without venerating the icons or talking, you need to move away from the pulpit and take a “drink” - holy water with wine and a particle prosphora (in this way, it is as if the oral cavity is washed, so that the smallest particles of the Gifts are not accidentally expelled from oneself, for example, when sneezing.) 7.
Preparation for communion for better assimilation (“Finally, preparing to accept into oneself - into one’s flesh and into your soul - The Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, terrible in their greatness, must be cleansed by body and soul. Fasting and Confession serve this purpose")
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Mandatory “post-communion” procedures - applying, kissing to the “cross”, “special icon”, etc. . and much more, via links and generally upon any request. And from past conversations with “believers.” ——-
So WHAT exactly are children given to drink and eat at communion? WHAT makes many children and adults sick?
Source of article: https: //nonjoy.livejournal.com/135077.html
What to do?
The manifestation of demonic actions may be evidence of an insufficiently strong spiritual life of children or their parents. Children in this case act as an indicator of the spiritual health of the family. Visiting Church, living in accordance with the rhythm of church life, growth in spiritual life, harmony in the family, family unity in God gradually make a person’s life smoother, more stable, more stable psychologically.
The child, seeing this “progress,” will instinctively reach out to God for Communion. He will stretch his soul and body, because the church rhythm of life - constant, peaceful - is different from the everyday non-church rhythm, fluctuating and depending on various factors. Often these factors are not related to the pressing problems of human life, mental, spiritual and physical, but are aimed at satisfying various passions, throwing the entire human structure into disorder.
The spiritual life of parents is always reflected and manifested in their children. Therefore, children’s refusal to receive Communion may be a consequence of insufficient spiritual life. Spiritual growth must occur in proportion to physical growth.
Failure in physical development manifests itself in one or another anomaly. Evidence of a certain spiritual development is the desire for Communion, which must be developed from childhood: bringing small children to church and accustoming them to life in the Church from birth, so that what was laid down in childhood serves as a standard in later life. Then you can avoid resistance even at an older age.
What to do if you feel sick after communion?
Reader question:
Good day. I’m pregnant, first trimester, yesterday I went to confession for the first time in my life, was admitted to communion, took communion the next morning on an empty stomach, but drank water. After the end of the service, an hour later I vomited (toxicosis) on the train on the way home (the temple is 15 km from home). Is my communion valid?
Archpriest Andrei Efanov answers:
Dear Anastasia, communion is a union with the Lord Jesus Christ, and it cannot be invalid if it has taken place! Under the guise of Bread and Wine, you tasted the Body and Blood of Christ, and this union, thank God, took place and was completed.
And the answer to it will not be based at all on the idea of what happens to the matter of the Bread and Wine eaten. Christ remains with us and in us until we ourselves drive Him out of our hearts. And we do this when we deliberately sin: we judge, get angry, fuss, lie, be hypocritical, and so on. It is at these moments that Christ leaves the temple of our soul. Therefore, in the prayer books after prayers for Holy Communion, it is written that after receiving the Holy Mysteries of Christ, a person must behave very carefully, carefully and try to preserve the gift that he received in the Sacrament read more.
So don't let this physiological incident upset you. Keep yourself peaceful and clean and everything will be fine.
And for the future, know that in such cases you should collect the vomit and throw it into a river or other untrampled place (for example, burn it in an oven).
Let this first communion in your life become the path leading to life in Christ! Dont be upset! From now on, try to go to confession and receive communion at least once a month. God bless you, the baby you are carrying (or babies), and the whole family!
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