General Anointing of the Sick?

[Eric_Prine]

That’s really interesting. So at least there is some precedent for giving Extreme Unction to people who aren’t likely to be dying soon, even if it’s not a Western tradition.

And most Eastern Catholics and Orthodox would also have a problem on only giving the Church member Unction is they were at an ‘age of reason’. Not only baptism, but chrismation (confirmation) and the Eucharist are given to infant when they are baptized.
This thread has made me realize that with how much I’ve been spending time with Eastern Christians that I may think more Eastern than Western. If I have to adhere to Western canon though my spiritual life is becoming more Eastern, it may be time for me to start questioning if I should appeal to have my status officially moved to an Eastern Rite.

 

[Vico]

And most Eastern Catholics and Orthodox would also have a problem on only giving the Church member Unction is they were at an ‘age of reason’. Not only baptism, but chrismation (confirmation) and the Eucharist are given to infant when they are baptized.
This thread has made me realize that with how much I’ve been spending time with Eastern Christians that I may think more Eastern than Western. If I have to adhere to Western canon though my spiritual life is becoming more Eastern, it may be time for me to start questioning if I should appeal to have my status officially moved to an Eastern Rite.

CCEO

Canon 737

1. By the sacramental anointing of the sick with prayers of a priest, the Christian faithful who are gravely ill and sincerely contrite receive grace, by which, strengthened by the hope of eternal reward and absolved from sins, they are disposed to correct their lives and are helped in patiently enduring their infirmity and suffering.
2. In the Churches in which it is the custom that the sacrament of anointing of the sick be administered by several priests, it should be seen to inasmuch as it is possible that this custom is preserved.

Canon 740
Christian faithful who are gravely ill, who lack consciousness or the use of reason, are presumed to want this sacrament to be administered to them in danger of death or even at another time according to the judgment of the priest.