1. Sacrament of Healing Celebrating God’s Healing Love
Anointing of the Sick
Sacrament of Healing
Celebrating God’s Healing Love

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Ritual Elements Prayers Penitential rite Scriptures
Laying on of hand by priest
Anointing with oil on forehead and hands(essential)
Holy Communion-
Viaticum

5. History 12th Century Second Vatican Council
Early Christian communities
8th-12th Centuries
12th Century
Second Vatican Council