Anointing of the sick and God's grace to them.

[MoreCoffee]

In Catholic teaching one of the sacraments is called the anointing of the sick. It is intended to be an appeal to God for physical and mental healing. Not all are healed physically yet some are and the act of receiving the sacrament brings grace of its own. My Pentecostal brothers and sisters are familiar with anointing the sick and prayers for healing and some from other traditions know these practises too. I will not spend time posting scripture references nor quote passages because we all, as Christian faithful, believe that God loves his people gives grace them them and will heal their ills either in this world or in the next. But for any who want reassurance regarding these things take a little time and download bible software like e-sword for windows (and apple Mac OS too I think) and search for healing and anointing with oil. You will, all things going well and God willing, find passages to comfort and reassure you that God does love you and does desire to help you.

Here is a mass where anointing of the sick occurs. Start watching at time about 19 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsoqro6Jl4

 

[TurtleHare]

You know i always thought that it was for anyone who's on a deathbed and it somehow brought to them a special blessing from God so that when they die they have a peace within them that everything is cool between them and God? Now I don't mind the calling for a priest at all when one is sick because James says to go ahead and do that, my bible says elder, and that prayer in faith be offered up and the Lord will raise him up and sins forgiven which. As a Lutheran our pastors gladly go visiting the sick and dying and pray over them and give to them the gospel which is far more important than the healing of the body that will die anyway but still God can heal if he so chooses and some he allows to die and to the family behind it's a terrible thing but to the one dead who had faith it is far better to be with God.

 

[NewCreation435]

I've been Baptist most of my Christian life and we don't tend to anoint people very much, but I did have a person come to the front at the end of the service one Sunday who was sick with cancer and we laid hands on her and anointed her. She passed away a few weeks later.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I've been Baptist most of my Christian life and we don't tend to anoint people very much, but I did have a person come to the front at the end of the service one Sunday who was sick with cancer and we laid hands on her and anointed her. She passed away a few weeks later.

Do you believe that the prayers said and the anointing gave her any comfort in her last illness?

 

[NewCreation435]

Do you believe that the prayers said and the anointing gave her any comfort in her last illness?

Yes, I do. I think she came to a place of peace in her last few days.

 

[Wilhemena]

God has called most of my family and very many of my friends home to him and it might surprise you that I am acquainted with Roman Catholics who do find peace after being anointed.

 

[MoreCoffee]

God has called most of my family and very many of my friends home to him and it might surprise you that I am acquainted with Roman Catholics who do find peace after being anointed.

It does not surprise me. I know a number of Catholics who died and after receiving the anointing of the sick and especially after receiving the Viatecum both the dying person and the family and friends received blessings despite the grief of losing a loved one.