Anointing of the Sick
Victor
Alfaro
Jorge Bojorkez
Diego Alulema
Mrs. Becks
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and shots, she needs the
Mrs. Beck has spent the last 40 years
touch of loving concern. It
caring for her family. She attended daily
changes
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radically.
Now she
involved
in
the church
community.
physically
impaired
, of
she
her time
at home being
taken care
by her
children.
feels healed, somehow more
whole. Therefore, the
Little
things taken
for granted
sacrament
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her are now
major
concerns
for her.
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belief
in Jesus,
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and
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all the
things were blessed
healing
touch.
with. Now there Jesus, into your hands I
commend my spirit.
What Does Anointing
Celebrate?
To many people, times of illness and suffering
seem senseless and devoid of meaning,
permeated by an overwhelming emptiness.
The
sacrament of Anointing offers a
Anointing
spiritual antidote to the damaging
by a priest
or a bishop is a statement
effects
of illness.
by the whole Christian community
that Gods gracious concern does not
leave us in times of suffering, illness,
and even death.
Gods Loving Concern
Gods loving concern for sick,
suffering, or dying people is the first
and foremost truth celebrated in the
sacrament of Anointing.
Knowing that God cares
about us when we are
hurting can have a powerful
healing effect on us.
Healing the Whole
Person
If you or someone close to you has ever been
seriously injured or been sick, you know that
being sick affects all of you your body, mind,
and soul. Physical illnesses do not just affect
our
body. Likewise, emotional difficulties
usually have
some sort of negative impact on your
physical
health. Such as depression.
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How Do We Know God
Really Cares?
Jesus cast out demons to actually
restore
people to life.
&
Jesus himself experienced suffering,
death, and Resurrection.
My Son
A womans only son died. In her grief, she went
to The woman said to herself, Who
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man for
help.
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people
than
who
known sorrow. She went off. She came first to a
had misfortune of my own? She
splendid mansion, and asked I am looking for a
stayed to comfort them and then went
home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a
on to other homes to find the magical
place? They told her that she had certainly
seed.
came She went house to house
hearing
their
tragic
stories.
Eventually
to the wrong
place
and began
to describe
all the
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involved
ministering
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had in
befallen
them.
to other peoples grief that ultimately
she forgot about her quest. She never
The Gospels tell us that
Jesus himself suffered
such mental and physical
pain and was finally put
to
death by the terrible
method of crucifixion.
Life, Not Death, Has
the Final Word
The powerful hopeful
message of the
paschal mystery: The
God of Jesus Is the
God of life. And life,
Different Rites for
Different
Circumstances
Offered with the wider
faith
Offered to nonterminally
community present.
ill
Anointing can be
persons. It can also be
celebrated
celebrated by Individuals
with a whole faith
who are seriously, but
community, either
not terminally ill.
as part of a mass or in a
separate healing service.Offered to dying persons. It
is also available to bring A
special comfort and peace to
those persons who suffer
from a terminal illness or are
close to death. In
Anointing of the
Sick
