Anointing of the Sick

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Anointing of the Sick

• Victor Alfaro
• Jorge Bojorkez
• Diego Alulema
• Erick Bravo
• Efrain Mercado

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Mrs. Becks Story

• Mrs. Beck has spent the last 40 years
• caring for her family. She attended daily
• mass whenever she could and was very
• involved in the church community.

She needs more than pills and shots, she needs
the touch of loving concern. It changes her view
on her illness. Although she is physically
impaired , she feels healed, somehow more whole.
Therefore, the sacrament reaffirms her belief in
Jesus, who once suffered for us, and in his
healing touch.
Unfortunately five months ago sickness changed
things radically. Now she must spend her time at
home being taken care of by her children.
Little things taken for granted are now major
concerns for her. Her prayers were Thank you,
Lord, for my family and friends, and all the
things were blessed with. Now there Jesus, into
your hands I commend my spirit.
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What Does Anointing Celebrate?

• To many people, times of illness and suffering
  seem senseless and devoid of meaning, permeated
  by an overwhelming emptiness.

The sacrament of Anointing offers a spiritual
antidote to the damaging effects of illness.
Anointing
by a priest or a bishop is a statement by the
whole Christian community that Gods gracious
concern does not leave us in times of suffering,
illness, and even death.
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Gods Loving Concern

• Gods loving concern for sick,
• suffering, or dying people is the first
• and foremost truth celebrated in the
• sacrament of Anointing.

Knowing that God cares about us when we are
hurting can have a powerful healing effect on us.
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Healing the Whole Person

• If you or someone close to you has ever been
• seriously injured or been sick, you know that
• being sick affects all of you your body, mind,
• and soul. Physical illnesses do not just affect
  our
• body.

Likewise, emotional difficulties
usually have some sort of negative impact on your
physical health. Such as depression.
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Modern medicine acknowledges the relationship
between emotional and physical health, and many
health-care professionals are giving increasing
regard to the emotional and spiritual needs of
their patients.
Often people do experience physical healing
after receiving this sacrament, but that is not
its primary purpose.
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How Do We Know God Really Cares?

• Jesus cast out demons to actually restore
• people to life.
• Jesus himself experienced suffering, death, and
  Resurrection.

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My Son

• A womans only son died. In her grief, she went
  to
• a holy man for help. He told her to fetch a
• mustard seed from a house that has not ever
• known sorrow. She went off. She came first to a
• splendid mansion, and asked I am looking for a
• home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a
• place? They told her that she had certainly came
• to the wrong place and began to describe all the
• tragic things that recently had befallen them.

The woman said to herself, Who is better able
to help these poor, unfortunate people than I,
who have had misfortune of my own? She stayed
to comfort them and then went on to other homes
to find the magical seed. She went house to house
hearing their tragic stories. Eventually she
became so involved in ministering to other
peoples grief that ultimately she forgot about
her quest. She never realized that her compassion
had, in fact, driven the sorrow out of her life.
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Life, Not Death, Has the Final Word

• The Gospels tell us that
• Jesus himself suffered
• such mental and physical
• pain and was finally put to
• death by the terrible
• method of crucifixion.

The powerful hopeful message of the paschal
mystery The God of Jesus Is the God of life.
And life, not death, will always have the last
word.
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Different Rites for Different Circumstances

• Offered with the wider faith
• community present.
• Anointing can be celebrated
• with a whole faith
• community, either
• as part of a mass or in a
• separate healing service.

Offered to nonterminally ill persons. It can also
be celebrated by Individuals who are seriously,
but not terminally ill.
Offered to dying persons. It is also available to
bring A special comfort and peace to those
persons who suffer from a terminal illness or are
close to death. In which the person receives his
or her last communion.
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Anointing of the Sick