They may not administer Penance ( Reconciliation ), Anointing of the Sick ( Extreme Unction ), or function as an ordained celebrant or concelebrant of the Mass ( by virtue of their office and their training and institution, they may act, if the need arises, as altar servers, lectors, ushers, porters, or Eucharistic ministers of the Cup, and if need be, the Host ).

Detail of Seven Sacraments Altarpiece | The Seven Sacraments ( 1445 ) by Roger van der Weyden showing the sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick.

Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or " unction " ( an older term with the same meaning ) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person.

Since 1972, the Roman Catholic Church uses the name " Anointing of the Sick " both in the English translations issued by the Holy See of its official documents in Latin and in the English official documents of Episcopal conferences.

An extensive account of the teaching of the Catholic Church on Anointing of the Sick is given in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1499 – 1532.

As the sacrament of Marriage gives grace for the married state, the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick gives grace for the state into which people enter through sickness.

The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick has as its effects:

The Roman Rite Anointing of the Sick, as revised in 1972, puts greater stress than in the immediately preceding centuries on the sacrament's aspect of healing, and points to the place sickness holds in the normal life of Christians and its part in the redemptive work of the Church.

Some Protestant US military chaplains carry the Roman Rite version of the Anointing of the Sick with them for use if called upon to assist wounded or dying soldiers who are Catholics.

The Catholic and Orthodox Churches consider invalid as a sacrament the administration of Anointing of the Sick by such chaplains, who in the eyes of those Churches are not validly ordained priests.

* Anointing of the Sick ( Catholic Church )

* Church Fathers on the Anointing of the Sick

* The Anointing of the Sick

* Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

* Holy Anointing of the Sick article from the Moscow Patriarchate

# REDIRECT Anointing of the Sick ( Catholic Church )

# REDIRECT Anointing of the Sick ( Catholic Church )

They rejected therefore, as early as 1416, everything that they believed had no basis in the Bible, such as the veneration of saints and images, fasts, superfluous holidays, the oath, intercession for the dead, auricular Confession, indulgences, the sacraments of Confirmation and the Anointing of the Sick ; they admitted laymen and women to the preacher's office, and chose their own priests.

These are the sacraments of Anointing of the Sick ( which, in spite of not being reserved for the dying, is sometimes mistakenly supposed to be what is meant by " the last rites "), Penance and the Eucharist.

In the Roman Ritual's Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum, Viaticum is the only sacrament dealt with in Part II: Pastoral Care of the Dying.

The sacraments of Anointing of the Sick ( Extreme Unction ) and Confirmation or Chrismation are also administered by priests, though in the Western tradition Confirmation is ordinarily celebrated by a bishop.

Before his execution, McVeigh took the Catholic sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

Other rites such as Confirmation, Ordination, Holy Matrimony, Funerals, and Anointing of the Sick are performed but are not considered sacraments.

The only sacraments celebrated during this time are Baptism ( for those in danger of death ), Penance, and Anointing of the Sick.

The normal order of administration is: first Penance ( if the dying person is physically unable to confess, absolution, conditional on the existence of contrition, is given ); next, Anointing ; finally, Viaticum ( if the person can receive it ).

Anointing is considered to be a public rather than a private sacrament, and so as many of the faithful who are able are encouraged to attend.

In some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church it is customary for the bishop to visit each parish or region of the diocese some time during Great Lent and give Anointing for the faithful, together with the local clergy.

Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.

If all three are administered immediately one after another, the normal order of administration is: first Penance then Anointing, then Viaticum.

Anointing is sometimes also called anting because of a similar behavior in birds.

The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is often administered immediately before giving Viaticum if a priest is available to do so.

Anointing is also used to aid persons within negative cycles — illnesses, demonic possession or streaks of " bad luck ".

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anointing of an Orthodox Sovereign is considered a Sacred Mystery ( Sacrament ).

The same Myron which is used in Chrismation is used for the Anointing of the Monarch.

Anointing is part of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, and the Oil of the Infirm is used for this.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is one of the three that used to be called " the last rites ," because it was administered to someone who was dying.

It believes cannabis to be one of the main ingredients in the original Anointing Oil, as described in the Bible.

* Anointing ( The title Christ is derived from the Greek term Χριστός ( Khristós ) meaning " the anointed one ")

To explain this discrepancy it is claimed that one of two things occurred: Either the container of Holy Anointing Oil miraculously multiplied when supply became low ( as did the cruise of oil mentioned in the story of Elijah and the widow woman or the oil that lasted for eight days without being consumed during the Jewish Chanukka ) or, following new oil was added to the old, thus continuing the original oil for all time.

Though Orthodox instructional materials may list seven Sacred Mysteries ( Western names in parentheses )-Baptism, Chrismation ( Confirmation ), Confession ( Penance, Reconciliation or Confession ), Holy Communion ( Eucharist or Holy Communion ), Marriage ( Holy Matrimony ), Ordination ( Holy Orders ), and Unction ( Anointing of the Sick.

Likewise Catholic ministers licitly administer the Sacraments of Penance, the Eucharist and Anointing of the Sick to Christian faithful of Eastern Churches, who do not have full communion with the Catholic Church, if they ask for them on their own and are properly disposed.

*" The pastor ... may also grant permission to use the earlier ritual for the administration of the Sacraments of Baptism, Marriage, Penance, and the Anointing of the Sick, if the good of souls would seem to require it.