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Originally posted by aephi alum
I always thought Catholics called it baptism and Protestants called it christening, generally speaking.
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I am a Lutheran, and we call it baptism, but we are rather close to the Catholics in many ways. I know some people use the words interchangably as synonyms, but I checked my dictionary and it said the christening was the rite of the baptism. To me a christening is more of a term that older people would use.
Also, we do Confirmation as well. However for the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) it can vary from congregation to congregation. My home church has Confirmation classes during the 8th grade school year with completion at Pentecost. The kids at the church in my college town finished THREE
years of classes and were confirmed on Reformation Sunday. My best friend is Episcopalian and she went through a confirmation similar to mine.