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oleo infirmorum | Latin for the oil used for the rite of anointing |
What Viaticum includes | includes confession, anointing and communion |
Viaticum translation | "with you on the way" |
What Viaticum is sometimes called | "last rites" |
extreme unction | term no longer used for the sacrament |
The Letter of James | biblical source for the sacrament |
Gospel of John | where we find the raising of Lazarus |
Jairus' daughter | healing story found in all three synoptic gospels |
beginning of anointing rite | sign of the cross |
mission | The sacrament allows the Church to copntiue Jesus' mission of healing and forgiveness |
forgiveness of sins | one of the graces of the sacrament |
a priest | the ordinary minister of the sacrament |
presbyter | another word for priest found in the NT |
unity | the sacrament helps us unite our sufferings to the cross of Christ |
strength | the grace of the sacrament that helps us cope with illness |
laying on of hands | in silence, precedes the prayer over the oil |
Where the person is anointed | forehead and hands |
litany | a prayer with a series of prayers, each followed with a repeated response |