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SeaStar
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Posted: April 14 2010 at 4:59pm \| IP Logged

This is one topic that doesn't come up much, one that I didn't realize until recently is a very real thing. I don't remember being stressed at all for FHC or confirmation, but I remember wishing that my wedding could just be over already.

However, in my ds, I definitely see signs of stress over FHC (or maybe he just likes to dive under the table when the subject is brought up

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I think there is a difference between being unready to receive and just being really nervous and unsure about the big day. Over the past couple of days I have heard a couple of stories about boys having a hard time dealing with the hoopla, which has made me feel hugely better.

I'm sure lots of us have stories about what happened on "the day"....

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Posted: April 14 2010 at 5:05pm \| IP Logged

I wasn't especially nervous about my own FHC (since I went through RCIA and was much too happy about it all!), but I am always very nervous during my children's baptisms. I always do at least one thing wrong or strangely (I remember I started to process at the wrong time at my first child's, and after my husband basically grabbed me by the clothing, I cried quietly in the pew for a while--very embarrassing). So, if a grown woman can be nervous about a sacrament she isn't even receiving, I can imagine how our children feel!

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Posted: April 15 2010 at 6:21am \| IP Logged

I was VERY anxious about being recieved into full communion as an adult (not because I had doubts or anything, just nerves) and found it awful to have to be at my children's baptisms, as I had never been to a baptism of a child before, we hadn't really talked to the priest, and our son who was about 4 was terrified which stressed me out a lot. Our wedding was not sacramental - just a civil cermemony, but I giggled and thought I would faint, so in one sense it was probably good that I was not in a proper wedding ceremony. I hate being looked at, find all social events very stressful so I am dreading all the sacraments to come.

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Posted: April 15 2010 at 9:10am \| IP Logged

My FHC was definitely *back in the day*, when there was a 3 hour pre-Communion fast and we knelt side by side at the altar rail. Because the Mass was at 9 a.m., I really hadn't eaten since dinner the night before. Also, I was so frightened that the priest or altar boy would drop the host or that I would pull my tongue back too fast and the host would fall on the floor. I guess I had been too impressed with the *cautionary tales* that I"d been told about this kind of thing. All of this combined to give me major butterflies in the stomach, and that led to the new anxiety that I would *throw up Jesus*. So, yes, I was definitely stressed! None of those things happened, and I've never worried about any of it since.

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Nancy

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