Category: Anointing of the Sick

Bishops take up twin documents on anointing of the sick

by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Anointing of the Sick, Archbishop Leonard Blair, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Liturgy, News, US bishops, USCCB, USCCB fall assembly | 0 |

The U.S. bishops agreed to consider revised texts, in both English and Spanish, for the anointing of the sick.

Anointing of the Sick: A Sacrament of Faith, Healing, and Peace

by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Anointing of the Sick, Featured, News, sacrament of the sick, Sacraments | 0 |

We live in a society where there is a great fear of illness and suffering, as demonstrated by the response to the coronavirus and the legalization of assisted suicide in some states. One way to lessen this fear among Catholics is to make them more aware that there is a sacrament that can provide graces […]

Lent and the Sacraments: Penance and Anointing of the Sick

by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Anointing of the Sick, Catechesis, Catechism, confession, Essay, Features, Lent, News, penance, Sacrament | 0 |

Sacraments of Healing The Catechism’s introduction to the “sacraments of healing” is so good that the best service to be provided here is simply to cite it verbatim: Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man […]

Anointing of the Sick: Depth, Beauty, and Grace in the Sacrament

by bcadmin | Jun 9, 2021 | Anointing of the Sick, Extreme Unction, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Sacraments, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |

Anointing of the Sick: Depth, Beauty, and Grace in the Sacrament It may seem pointless to read a reflection on the Anointing of the Sick by a person who has never received this sacrament. But it also makes sense. Just as the suffering, death, and Resurrection of Christ bought each of us undeserving sinners salvation and eternal life, it is through the graces of this sacrament […]

Advent a time to create a “to-do” list for the soul

by bcadmin | Dec 6, 2020 | Advent, Anointing of the Sick, Bible, Commentary, Faith, lead, Mass, News, On Spirituality, Prayer | 0 |

The Church is overflowing in ideas on how each of us can deepen in our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Healing & Peace

by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Faith, healing, News, Paul McKibben, peace, Sacraments | 0 |

By Paul McKibben Fr. George “Chip” Hines has experienced the power of Christ’s healing from the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick as both a priest and a recipient of it. “This is a grace that I’m receiving, and we cooperate with grace,” said Fr. Hines…

Why I Will Remain an “Adolescent” Priest

by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Coronavirus, Featured, Health & Spirituality, News | 0 |

It was a weekend in the last Lenten season and the strict lockdown for Covid-19 had just begun. I could not get my mind off of a friend of our religious community who was lying at home dying from a second massive stroke in a few months. The doctors said there was nothing more they […]

Beyond ‘last rites’: sharing the gift of the anointing of the sick

by bcadmin | Jun 16, 2020 | anointing, Anointing 101, Anointing of the Sick, Extreme Unction, Last Rites, Local News, News, Picks, Sacrament | 0 |

When Father Joseph Johnson speaks about the sacrament of the anointing of the sick with an elderly or ill parishioner, he sometimes has to get creative.

Text alerts unite Catholics in prayer for COVID-19 patients who will receive anointing

by bcadmin | May 14, 2020 | anointing corps, Anointing of the Sick, Coronavirus, covid, Local News, News | 0 |

Catholics across the archdiocese have been invited to support the team and “those who are suffering most intensely, usually in sterile isolation, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the archdiocese states on its website.

Minnesota bishop assembles priest team for anointing COVID-19 patients

by bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, News | 0 |

With local hospitals tightening restrictions for entering the rooms of patients with COVID-19, Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of St. Paul and Minneapolis is addressing an important pastoral need — administering the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to those suffering from the illness who are in danger of dying.

Indiana priests bring ‘power of the sacraments’ to the dying during pandemic

by bcadmin | May 3, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals, Last Rites, News | 0 |

For more than a month, churches have been empty. No baptisms, no weddings, no confessions heard. Priests celebrate Masses alone, livestreaming them on the internet. But they still go out to people who are dying to administer the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, even to those who are suffering from the virus.

Priests seeks ways to anoint the sick during coronavirus pandemic

by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Bishop Christopher Coyne, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News | 0 |

As hospitals adjust their procedures due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, some Catholic priests are departing from prescribed liturgical practices to administer the anointing of the sick, earning opposition from Church leaders who say the adaptations could invalidate the sacrament.