Dear Father | Anointing of the Sick imparts Jesus' own healing powers
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Question:
Who qualifies to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick? Need one be gravely ill?
Msgr. Mitas' Answer:
Of all the changes in the Church after the Vatican Council, those affecting this sacrament were perhaps the most dramatic. Formerly known as "Extreme Unction" (literally, the "last anointing"), it was given exclusively to the dying, and everybody knew it.
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