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Anointing of the Sick. Sacrament of Healing Celebrating God’s Healing Love. What Anointing Celebrates: God’s loving concern. 1-God loves and cares for us when we are sick, suffering or dying 2-God heals our spirit and gives us comfort through the love of the Christian community
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Anointing of the Sick Sacrament of Healing Celebrating God’s Healing Love
What Anointing Celebrates: God’s loving concern • 1-God loves and cares for us when we are sick, suffering or dying • 2-God heals our spirit and gives us comfort through the love of the Christian community • 3-Jesus’ suffering and death were not his final fate and neither for us.
Ritual-Different Rites for Different Circumstances • Whole faith community –part of a mass or in a separate healing service • Non-Terminally ill person • Dying Persons • Who and how often
Ritual Elements • Prayers • Penitential rite • Scriptures • Laying on of hand by priest • Anointing with oil on forehead and hands(essential) • Holy Communion- • Viaticum
History • Early Christian communities • 8th-12th Centuries • 12th Century • Second Vatican Council