Purification

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3 questions

• QWhy are women to refrain from taking the blessing of the Holy Communion during periods of menstruation? Why are girls baptized after 80 days and boys after only 40 days?
• QWhy is the purification period eighty days after the birth of a girl while it is only fourty days after the birth of a boy?
• QAfter delivery, why are women not allowed to receive Holy Communion except after a definitive number of days (forty for a baby boy and eighty for a baby girl)?

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