The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

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The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick
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Questions

• Has illness affected you or someone you know? How
  did you deal with the illness?
• Have you ever experienced the Sacrament of the
  Anointing of the Sick yourself or with another?
• What was the experience like?

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Overview of Evening

• Prayer
• Intro to evening
• Age specific learning
• Dismiss adults with children
• Gather for closing prayer

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Age Specific Learning

• Preschool with Maureen
• Grades 1-5 Libby
• Grades 6-8 Dennis
• Grade 9 Fr. Matt
• Adults with Fr. Tom

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Ground Rules

• Participation is optional
• If someone says pass move on
• Ask questions anytime
• Share as much as comfortable
• Let Jesus speak to you

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Main Points

• Illness and how it affects us
• Biblically based healing
• The effects of the Anointing of the Sick
• It is Jesus himself in the sacrament who touches

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Definition of Sacrament

• Signs of grace, instituted by Christ and given to
  the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to
  us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are
  celebrated signify and make present the graces
  proper to each sacrament.

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Biblical Reference

• Matthew 814-15
• Matthew 85-13
• Matthew 81-3
• Luke 843-48
• Luke 1311-13
• John 91-12

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CCC 1499

• By the sacred anointing of the sick and the
  prayer of the priests the whole Church commends
  those who are ill to the suffering and glorified
  Lord, that he may raise them up and save them.
  And indeed she exhorts them to contribute to the
  good of the People of God by freely uniting
  themselves to the Passion and death of Christ.

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Illness in Human Life

• CCC1500- Illness and suffering have always been
  among the gravest problems confronted in human
  life. In Illness, we experience our
  powerlessness, our limitations, and finitude.
  Every illness can make us glimpse death.

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Illness in Human Life

• CCC 1501 Illness can lead to anguish,
  self-absorption, sometimes even despair and
  revolt against God. It can also make a person
  more mature, helping him discern in his life what
  is not essential so that he can turn toward that
  which is. Very often illness provokes a search
  for God and a return to him.

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Illness in Human Life

• CCC 1504 Often Jesus asks the sick to believe.
  He makes use of signs to heal spittle and laying
  on of hands, mud and washing. The sick try to
  touch him, for power came forth from him and
  healed them all. And so in the sacraments Christ
  continues to touch us in order to heal us.

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Illness in Human Life

• CCC 1505 On the cross Jesus took upon himself
  the whole weight of evil and took away the sin of
  the world, of which illness is only a
  consequence Christ gives new meaning to
  suf-fering it can configure us to him and unite
  us with his redemptive Passion.

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Who Receives the Sacrament

• CCC 151415 The Anointing of the Sick is not a
  sacrament for those only who are at the point of
  death. As soon as anyone of the faithful begin to
  be in danger of death from sickness or old age
  the time to anoint has arrived. The sacrament may
  be repeated.

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Where can anointing take place

• Hospital
• Home
• Accident scene
• Church
• Almost anywhere

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Words of Anointing

• Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his
  love and mercy help you with the grace of the
  Holy Spirit (anoint forehead)
• May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and
  raise you up (anoint hands)

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Oil of the Infirm

• Blessed by bishop at Chrism Mass during Holy Week
• One of three oils blessed
• Brought back to each parish
• Christian/Catholic connection

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Effects of Anointing

• Uniting the sick with Jesus and the Church
• Providing strength and courage to face illness or
  age
• Forgiveness of sins
• Restoration of health
• Preparation for eternal life

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Question

• Think of people you know who are seriously ill,
  facing surgery, or reaching old age. How could
  the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick help
  them?

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Terminology

• Extreme Unction
• Last Rites
• Viaticum
• Anointing of the Sick
• Communal anointing

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Conclusion

• Illness and how it affects us
• Biblically based healing
• The effects of the Anointing of the Sick
• It is Jesus who touches

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Request

• Need volunteers to be anointed at all Masses on
  the weekend of January 26-27
• 2 or 3 at every Mass
• Please see me after presentation
• Thanks

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Next Time

• February 10,11 and 13
• Sacrament of Marriage
• Expanding Horizons May 9-18 Sacraments of
  vocations (Marriage and Holy Orders)
• Bring Bibles and Catechism
• Everyone is welcome