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Offline Cryptinox

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When did this practice start to spread?
« on: August 01, 2021, 12:06:29 AM »
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  • I have realized that today's Byzantine rite Catholics give Extreme Unction even to those who aren't extremely ill during their Holy Week. Did this happen before Vatican II? I know that Pope Benedict XIV condemned this practice in Ex Quo.
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    The two following points are to be noticed in connection with the first part of the third admonition. First, even though the Greeks have been clearly forbidden to confer the sacrament of extreme unction on any but the seriously ill, they have not been prohibited from anointing sick or possessed people with the oil of the lamp, which is kept in the church, as well as others who ask for it either out of devotion or for deliverance from some affliction. For the oil which is kept in the lamp was not consecrated by the bishop or priest for use in administering extreme unction. We are well aware that the request has previously been made for permission for the Greeks to be anointed with the oil of extreme unction in cases other than serious illness without the sacramental form being spoken by the priest. They of course reasoned that the sacrament is conferred not by the mere application of the matter, but necessarily requires that the form be pronounced at the same time. But this request was not acceptable since We can never permit a sacrament established by Christ to be converted into any whimsical ceremony even if it is a pious one. This is rightly observed by Fr. de Carboneano in his Appendix ad Tractatum P. Antoine de Extrema Unctione, sect. 4, p. 661. Despite the affirmation of Quintaduenas that parish clergy may send the holy oil of the sick upon request to the ill and others in order that they may anoint themselves in their sickness (Treatise 5, de Extreme Unctione, sing. 11), anyone who attempts to do this is punished with heavy penalties by the ecclesiastical tribunal, either for misuse of a sacrament of the church or being under suspicion of unorthodox belief concerning the sacrament, as Clericatus aptly remarks (de Savamento Extremae Unctionis, sect. 70, no. 32). Ex Quo, Pope Benedict XIV

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    Re: When did this practice start to spread?
    « Reply #1 on: August 01, 2021, 06:38:49 AM »
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  • I don’t know when or how the practice started.  I DO know my uncle got Last Rites from an Eastern priest because he was dying and my aunt couldn’t find a single Roman Rite priest to come to the house and minister to him.