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THE HOLY MYSTERY

• OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK

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NOT the Last Rites

• If the person is dying
• Canon of Departure of the Soul from the Body
• The Office at the Parting of the Soul from the
  Body When there has been Prolonged Suffering.
• In addition to the usual
• Last Confession and Last Holy Communion

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Holy Mystery of Anointing

• For the sick
• To heal them!
• Not the Dying
• The Priest can use a shorten form
• If the circumstances are urgent or in another way
  requisite
• Eg hospital etc.
• The full Office is served on Wednesday of Great
  Week
• All the Faithful may receipt the Holy Mystery

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Theology

• Therapeutic for Healing
• Healing Both Physical Spiritual
• Conversion and Illumination
• Communal and Collective healing
• Eschatological preparation
• Preparing for Pascha Parousia

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The Full Office

• 7 Presbyters (cf. Jas.)
• 7 Liturgies of the Word
• 7 Prayers of Healing
• 7 x Anointed
• Commingling the Oil Wine
• Blessing the Oil Wine
• Absolution of Sin w Gospel Book
• Again, deprecatory Jesuss Hands
• Laying on of Hands (Jas.)

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Full Office II

• Unmercenary Saints
• Special category of saints
• Commemorated at the Offertory
• At every Divine Liturgy
• Physicians
• Healed without demanding
• Miraculous healings
• Post glorification miracles (eg via Icons)
• Cosmas Damian, Pantaleimon
• Invocation intercession
• Singing their Hymnody Kondaks

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Healing Prayer

• "Look down and hear us, Thine unworthy servants,
  and wheresoever in Thy great name we shall bring
  this oil, send down the gift of healing, and
  remission of sins and heal him, in the multitude
  of Thy mercies." We also find this connection in
  scripture.
• cf. the 1st Apostol Reading
• "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the
  elders of the church, and them them pray over
  him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
  Lord and the prayer of faith will save the sick
  man, and the Lord will raise him up (Js. 5).

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Remission of Sins

• Do Thou, O tender-hearted master, look down from
  the height of Thy sanctuary, overshadowing us
  sinners, who are also Thine unworthy servants,
  with the grace of the Holy Spirit,
• at this hour, and take up Thine abode in thy
  servant, N., who acknowledgeth his iniquities,
  and draweth near to Thee in faith accepting him
  because of Thy love towards mankind,
• forgiving him whatsoever he hath done amiss,
  whether by word, or deed, or thought, forgive
  him, cleanse him, make him pure from every sin
  and abiding ever present with him, preserve him
  all the remaining years of his life that,
  walking ever in Thy statutes, he may in no wise
  again become an object of malignant joy to the
  devil and Thy holy name may be glorified in him.

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Vocation Victory

• The healing that Christ offers is victory over
  this world and the devil
• that they who shall be anointed with this oil of
  regeneration
• may be terrible unto their adversaries, and may
  shine in the radiance of thy Saints, having
  neither spot or wrinkle and that they may attain
  unto thy rest everlasting, and receive the prize
  of their high calling

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Anointing

• Head
• Eyes
• Ears
• Nostrils
• Mouth
• Chest
• Back
• Hands
• feet

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Absolution

• O Holy King
• merciful and most compassionate
• Lord Jesus Christ, Son and Word of the living God
• You do not want a sinner to die but to convert
  and live.
• Upon the head of him/her who seeks forgiveness of
  sins through us
• I do not place my sinful hand
• But Your Hand, mighty and powerful,
• which is in this Gospel being held by me (my
  co-celebrants)
• upon the head of Your servant NN.

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Absolution II

• Together with them, I too pray and beseech Your
  sympathetic and forgiving benevolence
• O God our Saviour,
• Who through the Prophet Nathan pardoned David
  when he repented of his sins
• Who accepted Manassehs prayer of contrition.
• With Your customary benevolence, accept Your
  servant NN,
• Who today repents of his/her faults and overlook
  all his/her sins.
• For you are our God,
• Who commanded the forgivenness those who sinned
  even seventy times seven.
• As is your immensity so is your mercy.
• All glory, honour, and worship belong to You
• Now and ever and for ages of ages. Amen

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Order of Anointing Service

• Introductory Prayers and Psalms 143 51
• confess our sinfulness before God and ask Him to
  cleanse us and make a "new and right spirit
  within us"
• The Canon of the Anointing Service
• we ask God to show mercy upon us
• cleanse our souls
• drive away all evil powers
• grant salvation to those who are sick or
  suffering
• grant us the healing of our souls and bodies

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Unmercenary Doctor Saints

• Hymns invoking the intercession of the
  Unmercenary Saints
• anargyroi without silver/
• Saintly Doctors
• who helped the sick and suffering
• Esp. those poor, without insisting on
• God granted them Miraculous healing power
• In their lifetime after their Repose
• Cf. miracles of Saints walking out through their
  icons to cure the sick

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7 Apostle Gospel Readings

• James 510-16 Luke 1025-37
• the Good Samaritan (Oil and Wine for healing)
• Romans 151-7 Luke 191-10
• Zaccheus Repentance Forgiveness of Sin
• I Corinthians 1227-31131-8 Matthew 101,5-8
• Call of the 12 empowering to heal all manner of
  disease, cleanse lepers, raise dead
• II Corinthians 616-18, 71 Matthew 814-23
• Healing of St Peters Mother-in-law
• II Corinthians 18-11 Matthew 251-13
• Wise Virgins Oil and Light and the Bridegroom
  cometh
• Galatians 522-62 Matthew 1521-28
• the Syro-Phoenician Woman daughter healed from
  demonic possession
• I Thessalonians 514-23 Matthew 99-13
• Call of St Matthew It is not the healthy but the
  sick that need a physician
• I came to call not the just, but sinners to
  repentance

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Blessing of Wine Olive Oil

• Exapostelarion and Tropar of the Office
• Prayer of the Oil
• (wine bz antiseptic properties
• Cf. the Good Samaritan parable)
• O Lord who, in thy mercies and bounties, healest
  the disorders of our souls and bodies, do Thou,
  the same Master, sanctify this Oil, that it may
  be effectual for those who shall be anointed
  therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from
  every passion, every malady of the flesh and of
  the spirit, and every ill
• and that therein may be glorified Thy most Holy
  Name, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
  Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of
  ages. Amen.

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Prayer of Anointing

• O Holy Father, Physician of souls and bodies, Who
  didst send Thine only-begotten Son, our Lord
  Jesus Christ, to heal every infirmity and deliver
  from death
• Heal Thou, also, Thy servants from the ills of
  the body and soul which do hinder them, and
  quicken them, by the Grace of Thy Christ
• through the prayers of our most Holy Lady, the
  Birth-Giver of God and Ever Virgin Mary through
  the intercession of the honourable bodiless
  Powers of Heaven through the power of the
  Precious and Life-Giving Cross through the
  protection of the honourable, glorious, Prophet
  and Forerunner John the Baptist of the holy,
  glorious and righteous Martyrs of our righteous
  and Godbearing Fathers of the holy and healing
  unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John,
  Thaleleus and Tryfon, Panteleimon and Hermolaus,
  Samson and Diomidis, Mokius and Aniketos of the
  holy and righteous ancestors of God, Joachim and
  Anna and of all the Saints.
• For Thou art the Fountain of healing, O God, our
  God, and unto Thee do we ascribe glory, to the
  Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
  now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

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Heaven/Kingdom Bridal Chamber

• Let us, like the wise virgins, prepare for the
  Resurrection Second Coming of the Lord
• I behold Thy Bridal Chamber
• Richly adorned, O my Saviour
• But I have no wedding garment
• To worthily enter
• Make radiant the garment of my soul
• O Giver of Light and Save me

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