> << What is actually done near the time of death is the sacrament of
> the
> anointing of the sick, or holy unction as it used to be called.
> >>
>
> By the hands of the Dominican sisters who taught me, it was referred
> to as
> "Extreme Unction" (or as we heard it "extramonkshun"). "Anointing
> of the
> Sick" was not used by anyone I knew until about 8th grade or early
> school,
> IOW early 70's.
The term "extreme unction" has been dropped, as being ambiguous. There
are in fact three anointings, or unctions, administered by the Church.
The first is the anointing of catechumens, used as part of the rite of
exorcism in preparation for baptism; the second, the holy Chrism, which
is used at baptism itself; and the third and last, the anointing of
the sick. The term "extrema unctio" meant the last anointing of the
three. It did not mean - ever- that it had to be administered "in
extremis" i.e. at the moment of death. Misunderstanding on this point
was no doubt the reason that the term "Anointing of the sick" was
substituted for "extreme unction" after Vatican II.
Oriens.
>
> mark
>
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