During the first five hundred years or so of the history of the Roman Catholic Church, it was always the case that the sacraments of Christian initiation were celebrated in an invariable sequence: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist.
loon (plural loons) 1  idler, lout. ( 2 chiefly Scotland, Ulster) boy, lad. ( 3 chiefly Scotland) harlot; mistress. ( chiefly Scotland) 1  simpleton. (slang) crazy or deranged person. ( Ireland) English Soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
With its brilliant red eyes and haunting call, the Common Loon is one of the most recognizable water birds in North America. A denizen of freshwater systems in the summer, it breeds throughout most of Canada and some parts of the northern United States, and migrates south along both the eastern and western North American shorelines each winter.