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Understanding Anointing of the Sick

The Anointing of the sick is a sacrament received by Catholics near death or facing serious illness. It absolves sins and bestows God's grace upon the sick or dying person through prayers, readings, and anointing with blessed oil by a priest. Receiving the sacrament helps restore faith, offers spiritual comfort and healing, and prepares one for eternal life with God in heaven by transforming their view of suffering.

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Understanding Anointing of the Sick

The Anointing of the sick is a sacrament received by Catholics near death or facing serious illness. It absolves sins and bestows God's grace upon the sick or dying person through prayers, readings, and anointing with blessed oil by a priest. Receiving the sacrament helps restore faith, offers spiritual comfort and healing, and prepares one for eternal life with God in heaven by transforming their view of suffering.

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Anointing

of the sick

Anointing of the sick is a very important


sacrament as it absolves you from all your sins
not everyone has the chance to receive this
sacrament but if you can you should.

This sacrament could only be received by a


priest and is usually received at an old age, you
are meant to have this sacrament when you are
dying and is very close to reconciliation.

This sacrament is the sacrament of healing in


which a priest a sick or dying person with oil to
bestow the grace of God onto them
Anointing of the sick offers a spiritual cure to the
damaging affects of illnesses.

This sacrament helps us to restore our faith with


God and gives us spiritual comfort
This sacrament of healing also joins our
sufferings with God when He died on the cross, it
prepares us for eternal life with god in heaven.

This sacrament helps transform the lives of


those who receive it by looking at suffering in a
new way, it gives them a sense of hope

The process of anointing of the sick


uPrayers
uPenitential rite
uReadings from the scriptures
uLaying on of the hands of the priest
uAnointing with blessed oil on the forehead and
hands by the priest
uPriest says liturgy
uHoly communion

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