Anointing Mass on Saturday, February 11

Father Marc will have special “Anointing of the Sick Mass” on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 12:00 PM, followed by a lunch.  If you would like an anointing, please click on the button below or call the Parish Center at 676-1378 to RSVP.  We will have name tags made and need a headcount for the caterer.  Please RSVP not later than February 8th.
 
In the 9th century a European church custom involved the anointing of the sick and dying in a “sacrament of the sick.”  By the 12th century this ritual was viewed as a last anointing before one’s death and passage over to eternal life.  By the 16th century, the time of the Council of Trent, Catholics had begun to speak of a sacrament called extreme unction.  Church leaders have ordered, in more recent times, that this be known as anointing of the sick.

What are the three main parts of anointing the sick?
The sacrament itself has three distinct parts: the prayer of faith, the laying-on of hands, and the anointing with oil on the forehead and hands. In the prayer of faith, it is the whole community, the People of God, who pray for God's help for the sick person.

What does the Anointing of the Sick do?
When a priest confers this Sacrament, the individual receives from the Holy Spirit the Graces of strengthening, peace, and courage to overcome the difficulties that go with the condition of serious illness or the frailty of old age.