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.