Growing old, illnesses and death are inevitable parts of the cycle of life. Yet Time does not destroy the human person but prepares us foreternal life.
Healing Through Christ
Growing old, illnesses and death are inevitable parts of the cycle of life. Yet Time does not destroy the human person but prepares us for eternal life.
The Church, in her pastoral care and in continuing Jesus’ healing ministry, brings comfort in times of physical distress through the sacrament of anointing the sick.
From the earliest days, people sought the aid for the ravages of sickness and age using herbs, oils, and spells for healing.
Jesus’ ministry was spent healing the sick. The miracles of Jesus in the New Testament testify to cures. In fact, Jesus even commissioned the apostles to heal (Mark 6:7).
The practice of healing continued in the early Church; the healing power of the Lord continued through prayers and simple anointings. Laypersons, too, took blessed oil from church into homes and prayed with and anointed the sick. Gradually, this healing rite has developed into an elaborate church ceremony performed exclusively by clergy. Because it mirrored the healing actions of Jesus, this ritual was named a sacrament at the Second Council of Lyons.
Anointing the Sick after Vatican II
During the Middle Ages, the anointing of the sick was the sacrament of the dying or last rites. The Communion received became known as viaticum, which is Latin for “going with you on the way”. The dying were brought into the church and many priests paid hands on them and anointed them. This practice was later abandoned; the sick were anointed privately. In 1545, the council of Trent affirmed the sacrament of extreme unction, or the last anointing, as one of the 7 sacraments.
To recapture the authentic meaningfulness for the sacrament as Christ’s healing for the sick, Vatican II changed the name from extreme unction to sacrament of the sick, or anointing of the sick. The revised ritual for this sacrament includes pastoral care of the sick, which focuses on the Church’s overall ministry to the sick. |
How to request for a priest to anoint a sick in the hospital |
For patients in Assunta Hospital
Call
Assumption Church PJ
[603] 7784 4470 | 7782 5854
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For patients in University Hospital Call
St Francis Xavier Church
[603] 7956 5977 |
For patients in Subang Jaya Medical Centre or Sunway
Medical Centre, Call
St. Ignatius Church
[603] 7803 3512 |
| If all else fails, call any Catholic priest. |
| A Death in the family? |
Step 1
Immediate family members to contact and inform the Parish Office with the necessary document
-Death Certificate (if available)
-IC of the deceased
to arrange for funeral mass
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Step 2
To contact BEC leader to help arranging for the 7 days evening prayers |
| The Parish Priest will come to the home of the deceased or the funeral parlour to bless the body before the funeral at the church. |
| Parish priest will not accompany the body to the cemetary or the crematorium |
| Currently, it costs RM60.00 (Sixty Ringgit) to book a funeral mass |
 Print Funeral Mass Form (pdf file) |
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