BY: Michael Quijada Christopher Centeno William h Fernandez Jake tijerina Jordan Alvarez

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BY Michael QuijadaChristopher CentenoWilliam
h Fernandez Jake tijerinaJordan Alvarez

• Anointing of the sick

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Table of Contents

• Sacrament of Anointment Hope
• What does Anointing Celebrate
• Gods Loving Concern A Gift to the Whole Person
• How Do We Know God Really Cares?
• The Healing Power of the Faith Community
• Hope through Resurrection
• Different Rites for Different Circumstances
• Common Elements of Anointing
• Healing in the Early Church
• Anointing Becomes a Preparation for Dying
• Original Purpose is Restored

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Sacrament of Hope

• The Sacrament of Anointing reminds us of the
  hope-filled reality of Jesus own suffering,
  death, and Resurrection, and allows us to
  reaffirm our faith in that reality.
• The Sacrament of Anointing can be celebrated with
  a whole faith community, either as a part of a
  Mass or in a separate healing service.
• The sacrament of Anointment of the Sick is a
  central part of the overall pastoral care the
  church gives to its weak and ill members.

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What does Anointing Celebrate?

• When People are sick or close to death, they
  often talk about a great sense of loneliness and
  isolation, or worry, depression, and
  helplessness.
• The sacrament of Anointing offers a spiritual
  antidote to the damaging effects of illness.
• Anointing by a priest or a bishop is a statement
  by the whole Christian community that Gods
  gracious concern does not leave us in time s of
  suffering, illness, and even death.

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Gods Loving Concern A Gift to the whole person.

• Gods loving concern for sick, suffering, or
  dying people is the first and foremost truth
  celebrated in the Sacrament of Anointing.
• In this sacrament the people God seek not only to
  remind sick, and suffering people about the
  unconditional love and forgiveness but also to
  reassure them that God cares about their
  well-being.
• The Sacrament of Anointing acknowledges and
  celebrates the wholeness of the human person,
  paying attention to both physical and spiritual
  well-being

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How Do We Know God Really Cares?

• Two elements lie beneath the Christian belief in
  Gods compassion. Both come to us from the
  Gospels, and both involve actions and
  undertakings by Jesus Jesus cast out demons,
  relieved the suffering of people afflicted with
  many kinds of physical ailments, and actually
  restored people to life
• Jesus himself experienced suffering, death, and
  Resurrection

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How Do We Know God Really Cares? Cont.

• Examples
• In the book of Mark 521-43, Jesus brings the
  daughter of Jairus back to life and cure the
  woman who has a hemorrhage.
• In the book of Matthew 1521-28, Jesus cures a
  Canaanite womans daughter. Jesus also shows
  compassion for the Canaanite woman, who in Jesus
  day was marginalized person in society.
• From these accounts, we know that Jesus himself,
  healed because he felt compassion for hurting
  people
• He wanted to show people firsthand the power and
  depth of Gods compassion

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The Healing Power of the Faith Community

• When the Christian community brings Gods
  compassion and love to its members who are in
  pain or near death, as it does through the
  Sacrament of Anointing, the Community is acting
  as an instrument of Gods healing grace
• The healing ministry of Jesus is expressed in a
  variety ways through the churchs Pastoral Care
  of the Sick.
• This includes- visiting the sick, bringing Holy
  Communion to the sick, and praying for them
  during Mass and at other times.
• Other issues may include the personal and social
  sides of sickness and truly resolved by healing

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Hope through Resurrection

• The sacraments of Anointing reminds us of the
  hope-filled reality of Jesus own suffering,
  death, and Resurrection, and allows us to
  reaffirm our faith in that reality
• Life, not death, has the final word the God of
  Jesus is the God of Life, and Life not death,
  will always have the last word
• When an entire community takes part in the
  sacrament of Anointing, all the members of the
  community can reaffirm Resurrection faith.
• A sacrament of hope in its purest form
• All of Jesus suffering as well as the sacrament
  of Anointing, stand as testimony to Gods loving
  presence in the midst of human suffering

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Different Rites for Different Circumstances.

• There are several different rites that are
  available for celebrating the sacrament of
  Anointing.
• Offered with the wider faith community present
• Offered to nonterminally ill persons
• Offered to dying persons
• Not just for Dying Persons
• The differences allow for the varying
  circumstances and situations that naturally come
  up in the community.
• Ex. There are even directives for baptizing and
  confirming sick or dying people, if they wish to
  receive those sacraments and have not done so
  before.

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Common Elements in Anointing.

• A number of elements are common to all forms of
  celebrating the sacrament of Anointing
• Prayers.
• A Penitential Rite.
• Reading from the Scriptures.
• The Laying on of hands by the priest.
• Anointing with oil on the forehead and hands by
  the priest.
• Holy Communion.

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Common Elements in Anointing. Cont.

• Essential to the sacrament is the anointing by
  the priest of the persons forehead and the hands
  wile praying these words
• Through this holy anointing
• may the Lord in his love and mercy
• with the grace of the Holy Spirit.
• Amen.
• May the Lord who frees you from sin
• save you and raise you up.
• Amen.

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Healing in the Early Church

• As faithful followers of Christ, the Apostles and
  the first Christian communities carried on his
  healing mission
• During the early period of sacraments history,
  evidence suggests that any Christian could pray
  for sick people or anoint them with oil or lay
  hands on them, calling on the Spirit to heal them
• The oil, blessed by the Bishop, was used as an
  ointment on the injured part of the body or as a
  balm that covered the entire body.
• Sometimes it was even Drunk!!
• In many instances ill Christians were anointed
  with the blessed oil on a regular basis

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Anointing Becomes a Preparation for Dying

• Gradually, from about the 8th to the 12th
  century, significant changes in the sacrament of
  anointing occurred.
• By this time some people had begun treating the
  blessed oil like a magic potion
• This accounts partly for the ministry of
  Anointing becoming reserved for priests
• During this period Anointing also became
  associated with the sacrament of Penance, which,
  was generally administered to excommunicated
  persons only when they were near death, therefore
  it was seen as a preparation for death rather
  then a sacrament of healing.
• The sacrament was then called officially, an
  Extreme Unction- the last anointing.

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Original Purpose is Restored

• Today Anointings original purpose- healing- is
  once again emphasized
• The official designation of Anointing as part of
  the Catholic churchs overall pastoral care and
  concern for sick and dying people strongly
  indicates this fact
• In the Sacrament of Anointing, Catholics are
  reminded of Gods healing power that keeps
  flowing through Jesus into the Christian
  Community, the church
• Participating in the the mysterious truth of
  Jesus life, suffering, sickness, and even death
  can be part of the healing journey toward
  resurrected life and wholeness.

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