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  The Catholic Encyclopedia - Extreme Unction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Luther denied the sacramentality of extreme unction and classed it among rites that are of human or ecclesiastical institution (De Captivit.
Hence the guarded statement of the Council of Trent that extreme unction as a sacrament is merely "insinuated" in St. Mark, i.e.
The majority of theologians, however, deny the validity of extreme unction repeated while the danger of death remains the same, and they assume that this is the implicit teaching of the Council of Trent.
jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/05716a.htm   (11710 words)

  
 EXTREME UNCTION - LoveToKnow Article on EXTREME UNCTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It was a popular opinion in the middle ages that extreme unction extinguishes all ties and links with this world, so that he whohas received it must, if he recovers, renounce the eating of flesh and matrimonial relations.
A few peasants of Lombardy still believe that one who has received extreme unction ought to be left to die, and that sick people may be starved to death through the withholding of food on superstitious grounds.
Some Gnostics sprinkled the heads of the dying with oil and water to render them invisible to the powers of darkness; but in the East generally, where the need to compete with the Cathar sacrament of Consolatio was less acutely,felt, extreme unction is unknown.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EX/EXTREME_UNCTION.htm   (453 words)

  
 SSPXAsia.com: The New Sacrament of Extreme Unction: Mar-Apr 1999 Newsletter
The new doctrine of the sacrament of Extreme Unction clearly appears in the new ritual of the benediction of the oil of the sick by the Bishop on Holy Thursday.
The traditional Roman ritual of this sacrament says that this blessing is usually given along with Extreme Unction, and grants a plenary indulgence (remission of the whole penalty of purgatory) for the dying.
It is again a consequence of the new doctrine on Extreme Unction since Vatican II, which insists more on the cure of the body than on the cure of the sins.
www.sspxasia.com /Newsletters/1999/Mar-Apr/The-New-Sacrament-of-Extreme-Unction.htm   (1484 words)

  
 Summa Theologica
We must now consider the sacrament of Extreme Unction: in respect of which five points have to be considered: (1) Its essentials and institution; (2) Its effect; (3) Its minister; (4) on whom should it be conferred and in what parts; (5) Its repetition.
Hence that unction is not a sacrament as Extreme Unction is.
Reply to Objection 3: Dionysius makes no mention of Extreme Unction, as neither of Penance, nor of Matrimony, because he had no intention to decide any question about the sacraments, save in so far as they serve to illustrate the orderly disposition of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, as regards the ministers, their actions, and the recipients.
www.godrules.net /library/summa/XP029.htm   (4580 words)

  
 Extreme Unction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Sacrament of Extreme Unction, or 'Anointing of the Sick,' is vital at the point of death.
Extreme Unction is for strengthening the soul at the point of death.
Extreme Unction takes away the mortal sin of an unconscious person who has made an act of imperfect contrition.
www.memorare.com /tests/tfquizunction.html   (118 words)

  
 Baltimore Catechism No. 3 - Lesson 25
Extreme Unction is the Sacrament which, through the anointing and prayer of the priest, gives health and strength to the soul, and sometimes to the body, when we are in danger of death from sickness.
Extreme Unction was instituted at the time of the apostles, for James the Apostle exhorts the sick to receive it.
Extreme Unction will take away mortal sin if the dying person is no longer able to confess, provided he has the sorrow for his sins that would bee necessary for the worthy reception of the Sacrament of Penance.
www.ourladyswarriors.org /faith/bc3-25.htm   (2711 words)

  
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CHAPTER I. On the Institution of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
Now, this sacred unction of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord, as truly and properly a sacrament of the new law, insinuated indeed in Mark, but recommended and promulgated to the faithful by James the Apostle, and brother of the Lord.
For the unction very aptly represents the grace of the Holy Ghost with which the soul of the sick person is invisibly anointed; and furthermore that whose words, "By this unction," &c.
history.hanover.edu /early/trent/ct14unct.htm   (444 words)

  
 Goffine's Devout Instructions: Extreme Unction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
EXTREME UNCTION is a sacrament in which, through the anointing with holy oil and the prayer of the priest, the grace of God is imparted to the sick in danger of death, for the welfare of the soul, and often also for that of the body.
This sacrament is called Extreme Unction, because it is usually the last sacred anointing administered by the Church.
Penance, the Holy Viaticum, and Extreme Unction are sometimes called "the sacraments of the dying", or "the last sacraments".
www.catholicforum.com /saints/gdi306.htm   (322 words)

  
 Extreme Unction
That Extreme Unction is strictly speaking a Sacrament, is first to be explained; and this the words of St. James the Apostle, promulgating the law of this Sacrament, clearly establish.
Extreme Unction, then, can be administered to no one who is not dangerously sick; not even to those who are in danger of death, as when they undertake a perilous voyage, or enter into battle with the sure prospect of death, or have been condemned to death and are on the way to execution.
Extreme Unction was not instituted primarily for the remission of grave offences; only Baptism and Penance accomplish this directly.
www.canapologetics.net /html/extreme_unction.html   (2391 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Extreme Unction or Holy Anointing is the Sacrament which, through the anointing and prayer of the priest, gives health and strength to the soul, and sometimes to the body, when we are in danger of death from sickness, or "in need".
Extreme means last, and Unction means an anointing or rubbing with oil, and because Orthodox Catholics are anointed with oil at Baptism, Chrismation (Confirmation) and Holy Orders, the last Sacrament in which oil is used is called Extreme Unction, or the last Unction or anointing.
Extreme Unction or Holy Anointing will take away mortal sin if the dying person is no longer able to confess, provided he has the sorrow for his sins that would be necessary for the worthy reception of the Sacrament of Penance.
www.reu.org /public/catecism/c25.htm   (2976 words)

  
 Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick
As the anointing by conferring the Holy Spirit completes the sacrament of baptism, so extreme unction is the complement and completion of penance.
It was not until the Reformation denied the sacramentally of extreme unction and its institution by Christ that a more exact exposition was demanded of the Council of Trent.
Extreme Unction is a true sacrament instituted by Christ and proclaimed by St. James.
www.saint-mike.org /Library/Sacraments/Anointing_of_sick.html   (420 words)

  
 Extreme Unction
The first effect of Extreme Unction is the Remission of sins which follows from the passage in St. James: 'If anyone be in a state of sin, his sins are forgiven him,' and which is indeed confirmed by the very 'form' of the Sacrament which states 'Indulgeat tibi Dominus...
The third and terribly important effect of Extreme Unction is what is called the comfortatio animae: or the 'Comforting of the Soul.' The approach of death with its distressing pains, its physical prostration and the associated mental disquietude, can truly be a most appalling experience.
Lastly, though not strictly speaking a theological effect, the administration of the Extreme Unction under traditional circumstances, made it perfectly plain to the individual concerned that he was facing death.
www.wandea.org.pl /extreme-unction.htm   (810 words)

  
 Extreme unction
The last office which Popery performs for living men is to give them "extreme unction," to anoint them in the name of the Lord, after they have been shriven and absolved, and thus to prepare them for their last and unseen journey.
This was professedly an unction in the name of the "Lord of Heaven," to fit and prepare them for being admitted in vision into his awful presence.
Its votaries were anointed for their last journey, that by the double influence of superstition and powerful stimulants introduced into the frame by the only way in which it might then be possible, their minds might be fortified at once against the sense of guilt and the assaults of the king of terrors.
4dw.net /nonconformer/TwoBabylons/chapter_04_4.html   (900 words)

  
 CATECHISM OF ST. PIUS X: The Sacraments -- The Sacrament of Extreme Unction
1 A: Extreme Unction is a sacrament instituted for the spiritual as well as for the temporal comfort of the sick in danger of death.
A: Extreme Unction should be received when the illness is dangerous, and after the sick person has received, if possible, the sacraments of Penance and the Blessed Eucharist; it is even well to receive it while he has the use of his senses, and has still some hope of recovery.
A: The principal dispositions for receiving Extreme Unction are: To be in the state of grace; to have confidence in the power of this sacrament and in the mercy of God and to be resigned to the will of the Lord.
www.cin.org /users/james/ebooks/master/pius/psacr-u.htm   (242 words)

  
 SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Does Extreme Unction remit sins?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Now repentance is required in the recipient of Extreme Unction for the remission of his sins.
On the other hand, Extreme Unction is not done all at once, since several anointings are required.
Therefore since Extreme Unction is a sacrament of the New Law, its effect is the remission of sins.
www.newadvent.org /summa/503001.htm   (957 words)

  
 Extreme Unction
The "extreme unction" of Rome, as the very expression itself declares, is not intended for any such purpose.
These "unctions," says Salverte, "were exceedingly frequent in the ancient ceremonies.....Before consulting the oracle of Trophonius, they were rubbed with oil over the whole body.
The very same reason that suggested such an unction before initiation on this present scene of things, would naturally plead more powerfully still for a special "unction" when the individual was called, not in vision, but in reality, to face the "Mystery of mysteries," his personal introduction into the world unseen and eternal.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /2bab021.htm   (694 words)

  
 Sensual Bondage and the Voice behind Ernest Dowson's "Extreme Unction"
Nevertheless, Dowson does not focus on this spiritual ritual as one which is solely concerned with the body, but rather, here unction becomes a form of atonement, a cure of both the spirit and the senses.
Thus, essentially, he finally presents in "Extreme Unction" what is a very anti-Blakian notion of the transcendence of life into death, for here the senses must be stripped away in order to gain prophetic vision and to pass into the paradise of the afterlife.
Finally, in the first three stanzas the ritual of extreme unction and the healing of human shortcomings are all generalized because there is no specific person who is being anointed.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/dowson/eron13.html   (800 words)

  
 THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION
Oil is used in Extreme Unction-as in Confirmation-as a sign of strength; for as the priest applies the holy oil in the Sacrament, the grace of the Sacrament is taking effect upon the soul.
Answer: Extreme Unction is the Sacrament which, through the anointing and prayer of the priest, gives health and strength to the soul, and sometimes to the body, when we are in danger of death from sickness.
Answer: The effects of Extreme Unction are: first, to comfort us in the pains of sickness and to strengthen us against temptations; second, to remit venial sins and to cleanse our soul from the remains of sin; third, to restore us to health when God sees fit.
www.jesus-passion.com /sacrament_of_extreme_unction.htm   (2506 words)

  
 EIPS - Extreme Unction
EXTREME UNCTION is one of the sacraments of Rome, and as such, is held to "confer grace on the receiver;" it is therefore placed on the same level with the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Baptism, and Confirmation.
But let us now look carefully to the matter of Extreme Unction; the use of oil for the purposes of personal unction, was, and still is, common in the East, and like the kiss of charity, washing the saints' feet, and some other things, it was mixed up with the proceedings of the Primitive Christians.
That doctrine, apparently to the superficial reader, as stated by James, was opposed to the grace of the Gospel, and, therefore, abused by the Romanists; a fact from which, with characteristic decision, zeal, and impetuosity, Luther was led to question the inspiration of the Apostle James.
www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?ArtKey=extremeunction   (1564 words)

  
 SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is Extreme Unction a sacrament?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Now the effect intended in the administration of the sacraments is the healing of the disease of sin: wherefore it is written (Isaiah 27:9): "This is all the fruit, that the sin.
The oil with which catechumens are anointed does not convey the remission of sins to them by its unction, for that belongs to Baptism.
Dionysius makes no mention of Extreme Unction, as neither of Penance, nor of Matrimony, because he had no intention to decide any question about the sacraments, save in so far as they serve to illustrate the orderly disposition of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, as regards the ministers, their actions, and the recipients.
www.newadvent.org /summa/502901.htm   (608 words)

  
 Under Julius III  Council of Trent-14
The Doctrine of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction
This sacred unction of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord as truly and properly a sacrament of the New Law, alluded to indeed by Mark[63] but recommended and announced to the faithful by James the Apostle and brother of the Lord.
These things regarding the sacraments of penance and extreme unction this holy ecumenical council professes and teaches and proposes to all the faithful of Christ to be believed and held.
www.ewtn.com /library/COUNCILS/TRENT14.HTM   (1723 words)

  
 Anointing of the Sick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In past centuries, when the sacrament was in fact conferred only on those in immediate danger of death, it came to be known in the West as "Extreme Unction", i.e.
Catholic theology requires that administration of the sacrament be by a validly ordained priest, and thus holds that the rite in question, though helpful, like any prayer, for the sick person, is not a valid sacrament or channel of grace.
Traditional Catholic Anointing of the Sick (Unction) used before Vatican II and by traditional Catholics today
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_unction   (765 words)

  
 Circle of Prayer - The Sacrament of the Sick
Extreme Unction, now called the Sacrament of the Sick, is a sacrament by which, through the prayers of a priest and the anointing with olive oil (blessed by the bishop), a person who is in danger of death from sickness is given health of the soul and sometimes also of the body.
Extreme Unction gives strength to the soul, takes away venial sin and temporal punishment, remits mortal sin (if present), and sometimes gives heRlth to the body.
The only persons who can receive this sacrament are those who are baptized, have reached the age of reason, and who are in danger of death from sickness, accident, or old age.
www.circleofprayer.com /extreme-unction.html   (1022 words)

  
 Why don't we talk about extreme unction anymore?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Extreme Unction used to frighten many people, because it meant near death.
The sacrament of the sick must be associated with a pastoral effort that is concerned, not only with the unction, but also the visit and the communion of the sick.
The unction of the sick is the sacrament of the sick; Viaticum is the sacrament of the dying.
www.cssr.net /repchret/english/sacraments/answer25.htm   (354 words)

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