Divorced and remarried - access to the anointing of the sick

[Tigg]

A priest must always offer to hear the person’s confession before Anointing (so far as this is possible).

Here’s the canon again
Can. 1007 The anointing of the sick is not to be conferred upon those who obstinately persist in a manifestly grave sin.

The word manifest means (by definition) that the sin itself is public. It’s on display, so to speak. When we look at the sentence as a whole, the criteria is “obstinately persists” in a “manifest” grave sin.

So there are 3 conditions:

1. grave sin
2. obstinately persists (not merely persists, but obstinately/stubbornly so)
3. the sin (and/or the persistence to continue the sin) is manifest

Those 3 combined make for a very high standard to cause the priest to not-confer (delay) the sacrament of Anointing. Circumstances such as these (all 3 together) are very rare indeed.

Does that help?

How very glad we are that you can confirm what many have been saying. This very question (and subsequent argument) came up in one of the many threads on the synod debate. A footnote had appeared in a document written by Cardinal DePaolis in which the above referenced canon was stated with the three conditions. Further clarification was given by another source that even the request of the sick to “call a priest” indicates contrition.

 

[Tigg]

Footnote to above post

Remember the old days when you could walk into a Catholic store and buy a card to slip in your wallet which read, “I am a Catholic. In case of accident, please call a priest.”

I have made up my own card which is in a prominent place and will be seen even before you find my driver’s license.

 

[MaryT777]

Footnote to above post

Remember the old days when you could walk into a Catholic store and buy a card to slip in your wallet which read, “I am a Catholic. In case of accident, please call a priest.”

I have made up my own card which is in a prominent place and will be seen even before you find my driver’s license.

I have my grandmothers who died at age 93~~~I think that’s a great idea to make one for myself.

Mary.

 

[z_0101]

Footnote to above post

Remember the old days when you could walk into a Catholic store and buy a card to slip in your wallet which read, “I am a Catholic. In case of accident, please call a priest.”

I have made up my own card which is in a prominent place and will be seen even before you find my driver’s license.

I have one… bought it from the Catholic Bookstore

 

[TK421]

The worthiness/ability to receive the graces of sacrament is more-or-less left to the responsibility of the person, otherwise you’d have to conduct a CSI/Deep Space Nine investigation anytime somebody ever walked up for communion, confesses (did they deliberately leave something grave out?), got married (is it valid??), received Holy Orders (what if they’re a disguised, mischievous Amish woman that got a fake ID?), wanted healing of the sick, etc. Yes, there is some amount of preparation and review involved in baptism, confirmation (if you don’t get confirmed as a baby), confession, marriage, etc., but ultimately, if somebody wants to “cheat the system”, it’s extremely easy to do. The part of the Church in Heaven is impossible to fool one way or another.

 

[Vico]

The worthiness/ability to receive the graces of sacrament is more-or-less left to the responsibility of the person, otherwise you’d have to conduct a CSI/Deep Space Nine investigation anytime somebody ever walked up for communion, confesses (did they deliberately leave something grave out?), got married (is it valid??), received Holy Orders (what if they’re a disguised, mischievous Amish woman that got a fake ID?), wanted healing of the sick, etc. Yes, there is some amount of preparation and review involved in baptism, confirmation (if you don’t get confirmed as a baby), confession, marriage, etc., but ultimately, if somebody wants to “cheat the system”, it’s extremely easy to do. The part of the Church in Heaven is impossible to fool one way or another.

For emphasis, St.Paul writes in 1 Cor 3: 8 Now he that planteth, and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. 9 For we are God’s coadjutors *: you are God’s husbandry; you are God’s building.

• συνεργός *synergos - Strongs G4904: *

1. 
   *]a companion in work, fellow worker