Anointing of the Sick

A·noint·ing of the Sick (-nointng)

n. Roman Catholic Church

The sacrament of anointing a critically ill or weak person, with prayers for recovery and an act of penance or confession. It replaced the sacramental rite of extreme unction in 1972.

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anointing of the sick

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(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil Former name extreme unction

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anointing of the sick - a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation extreme unction, last rites sacrament - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction