What Does Churching Mean?

What Does Churching Mean?

In Christian tradition the churching of women, also known as thanksgiving for the birth or adoption of a child, is the ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth.

What did churched mean?

Churching' refers to a blessing that mothers were given following recovery from childbirth. ... Many people considered that childbirth made a woman unholy or unclean because it resulted from sexual activity; sexual abstinence and virginity being equated to holiness.

What does churched out mean?

I agree, it means you've gone to church too much or you've spent too much time at church. It's a play on a phrase like "I'm tired out," "I'm tuckered out," using church as a verb.

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