sick Flashcards
In relation to God, illness can do two things:
It can either lead the patient to anguish, sometimes even despair and revolt against God or it can make the person more spiritually mature and could very often provoke a search for God and a return to God.
When we talk about the reign of God, we are not referring to earthly reign or kingdom. We are referring to
God’s relationship with us
However, it was __________, who promulgated this sacrament.
the apostle James, the brother of the Lord
_____________ (1438-1445) counted Anointing of the Sick as one of the Seven Sacraments.
The Council of Florence
Pope Paul VI in the document:_________reaffirmed the definitive teaching of the Council of Trent that Anointing is a sacrament of the New Testament instituted by Christ, alluded to by Mark, and promulgated by James 5:14–15.
Sacram Unctione Infirmorum of November 30, 1972,
- Although the Council of Florence taught that this sacrament heals the mind, the soul and the body, it also taught that ‘this sacrament should not be given to the sick unless death is expected.’ Hence the name
Extreme Unction.
- The Council of Trent was even more restrictive. It taught that this sacrament “unction is to be applied to the sick, but to those especially who lie in such danger as to seem to be about to depart this life: whence also it is called the
sacrament of the departing.”