The newly-baptized will traditionally wear Christening Outfits their baptismal garment for eight days, especially when receiving Holy Communion. These are exceptional days of prayer and fasting., at the limitation of which they return to the church for the "Removal of the Robe on the Eighth Day" and ablutions (in many places today, this ceremony is performed on the same day as the baptism, immediately after Chrismation). During this ceremony, the priest loosens the zone on the baptismal robe and prays:
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He then sprinkles the newly-baptized with bathe and washes all of the places the chrism was applied, and performs the tonsure.
