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OCIA Adapted for Children

This form of the Order of Christian Initiation is intended for children:

  • not baptized as infants who are age 7 or older,
  • baptized in another Christian denomination and are entering the Catholic faith and are age 7 or older, AND
  • who were baptized Catholic but have not received the sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist by the age of 10.
  • See paragraphs 252-259 in the OCIA for more detail about initiation of children who have reached catechetical age.