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prefers otherwise. Even then the reception is to be part of a eucharistie celebration with a small community. (Confession of sin is made beforehand.) At the reception the candidate is accompanied, if possible, by one or two sponsors who have been instrumental in bringing him into full communion or in preparing him for it. If for serious reasons the reception tokes place outside Moss, it should occur at least in the context of a liturgy of the Ward. The nomes of those received into full communion are to be recorded in a
special book; the date and place of baptism should also be noted. If the individuel being odmitted to full communion has not been validly confirmed, the sacrement of Confirmation is administered in the reception ceremony. lt is the office of the bishop to receive baptized Christions into full communion; but if he delegates a priest to do so, the priest has by law the" right to confirm the candidate during the rite of admission. The sacramental principle involved is thot the bishop's ministry of con-firmation is considered less important thon the full and integral celebration of the sacrements of initiation on a single occasion.