The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick gives health and strength to the soul and sometimes the body when one is dangerously ill. All Catholics who have reached the age of reason and are beginning to be in danger of death from sickness, accident, or old age should receive it. While it's best not to wait until extreme danger, we also shouldn't refuse the sacrament to those who are in doubt or unable to confess. Only priests can administer Anointing of the Sick, which increases grace, forgives sins, and strengthens one to suffer with patience.

1. GLIMPSE OF FAITH
ANNOINTING
OF THE SICK

2. What is Anointing of the Sick ?

3. The sacrament
which gives
health and
strength to the
soul and

4. sometimes the
body when
we are
dangerously ill.

5. Who should receive
Anointing of the Sick?

6. All Catholics who
have reached
the use of
reason and who
begin to be in

7. Danger of death
from sickness,
accident, or old
age should
receive

8. Anointing of the
Sick.

9. Should we wait until we are in
extreme danger of death before
we receive Anointing of the Sick ?

10. We should not
wait until we
are in extreme
danger of death
before we

11. receive
Anointing of the
Sick; we should
see to it that, as
far as possible,

12. we receive the
sacrament while
we are still in full
possession of our
faculties.

13. What are the effects of the
sacrament of
Anointing of the Sick?

14. 1 .An increase of
sanctifying grace,
or at times the
restoration of the
life of grace.

15. 2 The
.
forgiveness of
venial sins, and
even mortal
sins if the

16. repentant sick
person is
unable to
confess them.

17. 3 The remission
.
of the temporal
punishment still
due to
unremitted sins.

18. 4 Strength to
.
suffer sickness
with patience
and resist
temptations.

19. 5 Recovery of
.
bodily health
when it is good
for the soul.

20. How should we prepare
ourselves to receive Anointing
of the Sick worthily ?

21. •By a good
confession
•By acts of faith,
hope and
charity

22. •By fostering in
us the desire to
identify
ourselves fully
with God’s will.

23. Who can validly administer
Anointing of the Sick ?

24. Only a priest can
validly
administer
Anointing of the
Sick.

25. When is it advisable to call
priest to visit the sick ?

26. It is advisable to
call the priest to
visit the sick at
the beginning of
any serious
illness, even
without imminent

27. danger of death,
and when a
person
advanced in
age begins to

28. be notably
weakened in
physical
strength since it
is the duty of

29. priest to visit the
sick and
administer to
them the
sacraments

30. they need.

31. The sacrament
which gives
health and
strength to the
soul and

32. May the same sick person be
anointed again?

33. The same sick
person may be
anointed again
if he falls into
serious

34. sickness again
after his
physical
recovery, or if
during the same

35. same illness his
condition
becomes more
serious.

36. What should be done when there is doubt
as to whether the sick person has
reached the use of reason, whether he is
dangerously ill, or whether he is dead ?

37. When there is
doubt as to
whether the sick
person has
reached the use
of reason, or
whether he is

38. dangerously ill,
or whether he is
dead, Anointing
of the Sick
should be

39. administered.

40. What should be done when there is doubt
as to whether the sick person has
reached the use of reason, or whether he
is dangerously ill, or whether he is dead ?

41. When there is
doubt as to
whether the
sick person has
reached the use
of reason, or

42. whether he is
dangerously ill, or
whether he is
dead, Anointing
of the Sick should
be administered.

43. Should sick Catholics who have
lost the use of their faculties be
given Anointing of the Sick ?

44. Sick Catholics
who have lost
the use of their
faculties should
be given

45. anointing of the
sick if they at
least implicitly
asked for their
faculties.

46. What about those who
obstinately persist in
manifest serious sin ?

47. Anointing of the
Sick should not
be conferred on
those who
obstinately

48. persisted in
manifest
serious sin.

49. GLIMPSE OF FAITH
ANNOINTING
OF THE SICK