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.
A long-bodied, low-slung diver. Many people consider the loon a symbol of wilderness; its rich yodeling and moaning calls, heard by day or night, are characteristic sounds of early summer in the north woods. In winter, silent and more subtly marked, Common Loons inhabit coastal waters and large southern lakes.