Children’s Fasting
Children’s Fasting
Question
For how long should a child aged three or four years fast before Communion?
Answer
Children according to their ability to endure. But do not be strict with them.
At first, it is enough for them to get used to the church and to Communion, while keeping them away from the temptation of food. For example, do not buy him a qurbana before entering the church and cause him to stumble by eating from it. Likewise, do not take him to a church whose liturgy is long, beyond the child’s endurance…
Also, keeping him occupied with the music of the hymns, with the pictures and icons, the candles, and the movements of the priests and deacons. All of this makes him forget food during the liturgy.
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