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Offline Stubborn

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Re: Why is Extreme Unction limited to danger of death only?
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2022, 03:20:23 PM »
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    • Quote from: Pax Vobis on May 24, 2022, 02:54:50 PM
    Well, I think your definitions are a bit of semantics.  "Near imminent" = lurking, because the surgery is scheduled, therefore the danger of death is knowable and predictable.  Imminent means "about to happen", like a dangerous surgery.


    If a priest gave you exteme unction 2 weeks before a surgery, that's not correct.  More than a day before?  Kinda extreme, unless (in our day and age) that's the only priest available.  A day before?  Makes more sense.  In other words, you might die tomorrow in surgery = near imminent.
    Well, the other side of that coin is the priest could have given you EU a day before the surgery, but after surgery you never regained consciousness and died 2 weeks later = good thing you received EU when you did.

    Or he gave you EU 2 weeks before the surgery but you died a week before surgery = good thing you received EU when you did.

    Sometimes it might only make sense with hind site.
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    Re: Why is Extreme Unction limited to danger of death only?
    « Reply #16 on: May 24, 2022, 03:28:47 PM »
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    Well, the other side of that coin is the priest could have given you EU a day before the surgery, but after surgery you never regained consciousness and died 2 weeks later = good thing you received EU when you did.
    Right, this would be an appropriate use of the sacrament.

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    Or he gave you EU 2 weeks before the surgery but you died a week before surgery = good thing you received EU when you did.
    Unless you were in danger of death BEFORE the surgery, then this sacramental use was wrong.  The point is, there has to be a "danger of death" to receive the sacrament, otherwise every catholic should get extreme unction every single day (just in case you died suddenly).  But that's not the point of the sacrament.
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    Re: Why is Extreme Unction limited to danger of death only?
    « Reply #17 on: May 24, 2022, 03:39:20 PM »
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    • In this day and age especially, you are in danger of death with any surgery when they knock you out.
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