![]() ![]() in sexto Benedict XIV, “Inter sollicitos”, § 9-1795). The present age for tonsure is seven full years (Cap. doorkeeper, reader, and exorcist, was seven, and for acolyte, twelve years complete. The requisite age, according to Gratian, for tonsure and the first three minor orders, i.e. The three states, ecclesiastical, religious, and laic, embrace all the ecclesiastical enactments concerning age.ĪNTE-TRIDENTINE DISCIPLINE.- Ecclesiastical State.-The ancient discipline was neither universal nor fixed, but varied with circumstances of time and locality. ![]() ![]() Hence, the canonical age necessarily varies as do the privileges, offices, dignities, etc. It is evident that a lesser development of body and mind is necessary to the reception of baptism than is required for either matrimony or the priesthood, and greater qualifications for the higher than for the lower offices. Hence the Church prescribes that age at which one is generally supposed to have the necessary qualifications. ![]() Each and every one of these, being a human act, requires a development of mind and body proportioned to the free and voluntary acceptance of these gifts and privileges, also an adequate knowledge of, and capability for, the duties and obligations attached. Canonical age is the year fixed by the canons, or law of the Church, at which her subjects become capable of incurring certain obligations, enjoying special privileges, embracing special states of life, holding office or dignity, or receiving the sacraments. The terminal year in each of the above ages must be complete. Conc., December 4, 1627), to the seventh year childhood, 7-14 puberty, 14-25 majority (young manhood), 25-40 manhood, 40-50 or 60 old age, 60-70 decrepitude, 70-100, or death. They divide the years of a man into seven ages, to wit: infancy, from the day of birth, not baptism (Sacr. Jurists define it as “that period of life at which the law allows persons to do acts and discharge functions which, for want of years, they were prohibited from doing or undertaking before” (Bouvier’s Law Dict.). The geologist, physiologist, and jurist define it differently, each from his own viewpoint. Age, CANONICAL.-The word age, taken in its widest meaning, may be described as “a period of time”. ![]()
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