First Holy Communion (reflections)

[Succubus]

Yes. Holy water does not affect the validity of a sacrament.

And it is one of the few Catholic sacraments that can be performed by anyone, not just a priest.

Yes, that was a hurriedly knocked together amendment by the church to counter the flood of embarrassing enquiries as to what happens to the soul of infants who die without baptism.

Help! Little Timmy has just fallen out of his cot and landed on a steak knife, there's no time to find a priest! No problem misses just lick your finger and mark a cross on his head and he's good to go.
How very convenient, but! He's good to go where? When the church scrapped the idea of Limbo they shot themselves in the foot, they now openly state they don't know where un baptised children go.