Oiling of the patients

The oiling of the patients is a Sacrement Churches roman catholic, orthodoxe of any kind, and Anglicans by which that which suffers is entrusted to the compassion of Christ (sometimes known as Christ doctor ). Oiling is made with an oil bénite.

Several evangelic churches practice also the oiling of oil for the patients, but do not regard it as a sacrament.

The oiling of the patients is an ordinance of the priesthood in the Église of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Days.

Biblical base

The source of this sacrament is in the New Testament, insinuated by Marc - Marc 6,13 “They drove out many demons, and they oignaient of oil much of patients and cured them. ” -, but recommended to faithful and promulgated by Jacques, apostle and brother of the Lord - Jacques is 5,14-15 “Somebody among sick for you? That it calls old Church, and that the old ones request for him, by oignant it of oil in the name of the Lord; the prayer of the faith will save the patient, and the Lord will raise it; and if it made sins, it to him will be forgiven” (DC. Thirty: DS 1695).

In the Catholic church

During centuries, this oiling took the form of the last sacrament of dying (and not only of the patients). It then took the name of extreme unction . She was regarded as a sacrament in single matter. After the Concile Vatican II, the apostolic Constitution Sacram unctionem infirmorum , November 30th 1972, established the rite of oiling by oil whereas the priest pronounces only once: “ Per istam sanctam unctionem and suam piissimam misericordiam adiuvet you Dominus gratia Spiritus Sancti, C has peccatis liberatum you salvet atque propitius allevet. (“By this holy oiling, that the Lord, in his great kindness comforts you by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Thus, having released you of all sins, that It saves you and raises you”)”. One also speaks about sacrament of the patients .

Oiling is not thus any more the sacrament of the desperate cases but a prayer for the re-establishment of the serious patients, with the assistance of the priest and the close relations of the patient. The oiling of the patients can naturally be repeated (whereas the extreme unction was regarded as a single sacrament - as the marriage).

Nevertheless, to accompany the patients at the end of the lifetime, oiling can be accompanied by a Eucharistie which takes then the name of Viaticum (or Viatique ).

In the Protestant Churches

The Protestant Churches do not have all the same position concerning the prayer for the patients. For some, God does not act any more in a miraculous or supernatural way at our time. For other (in particular charismatic Churches), the miracles reported in the Bible are still possible today. In these Churches, the oil oiling is practiced regularly, in general by the old ones of the community (according to what is written in the epistle of Jacques referred to above).

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