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Churching of Women
A new mother returns to church and is met not with judgment but with blessing and thanks
The churching of women is a rite of blessing and thanksgiving offered for a mother after childbirth on her return to church. Gregory I's correspondence with Augustine of Canterbury touches on the practice. It was historically kept in Catholic, Orthodox (as a forty-day churching), and Anglican traditions, though it has been largely abandoned in modern Western churches. The traditions differ in whether and how the rite is still observed.
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