May I self-anoint w/EVVO like I formerly did w/St Perriguin oil from the catholic store?

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2018-Priest #1 blesses personal oil for me to use at home

2019-Priest #2 blesses personal oil for me to use at home

2020-Priest #3 Refuses telling me it’s not allowed.

Can anyone here explain?

What in Cannon Law has changed?
 
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I have never heard that it was newly banned in 2020.

Please, anyone who is educated as to the facts in this area, please do respond.

What happened?
 
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The priest may be concerned that you are using the oil to anoint someone who is ill —what did you tell him you wanted the oil for?
 
I assume you mean “St. Peregrine” oil, as this is a powerful saint invoked as an intercessor for cancer patients.

A couple of things.
Nobody can anoint himself or herself. Anointing is a ministerial act. Just as Samuel took his horn and anointed David as priest, prophet, and king, today clerics of the Catholic Church anoint her faithful and even ordain new priests with sacred chrism.

By the same token, anointing by laity is highly discouraged or even forbidden. There is a high risk of the faithful becoming confused by a “lay anointing” to think that it has efficacy or parity with the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. This is a sacrament that cannot even be conferred by Deacons!

There are several groups in the Church which give great value to blessed oils. I personally have all my olive oil blessed. But the priests at my parish rightly inquired as to why I was having this done, and I replied that I intend to cook with it. You read that correctly: oil blessed by priests for the laity is for cooking. It is still a sacramental, and a highly symbolic creature when used in our everyday kitchen concoctions, but blessed oil is food, for all the reasons above, and more.

Enjoy your spaghetti! 😃
 
Nothing changed as far as I know. I used and use blessed oil and there was never a problem with priest to bless it and he knew why I needed it.
Blessed oil is sacramental and using it by yourself on yourself isn’t like you would imitate priest in sacrament of Anointing of the Sick so there shouldn’t be problems. The same is with blessed water.

Maybe there was some misunderstanding, try to ask priest to explain.
 
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Water is not merely blessed, it is Holy Water, which is constituted by a specific rite, and expressly given to the faithful for us to have and use in our homes for blessing ourselves. Holy water is dispensed via spigot at every Catholic parish. Holy water stoups are sold in gift stores and installed in the home, by the entrance door. Holy Water bottles are sold by the thousand to the faithful who piously use them.

I am simply unaware of an infrastructure to support laymen anointing each other with oil. I am also unaware of liturgical ritual books or prayers that are prescribed for lay anointings. Therefore, in the absence of prescribed forumulae, and guided by the liturgical principle that nobody improvises the words but recites them verbatim from a duly-approved book, I conclude that anointing with blessed oil by a layperson is not something the Church has viewed as licit.

That being said, some priests may have different ideas about what is licit; these views do not change liceity, but I would say that if you are under obedience to one of the stricter priests, you should err on the side of caution.
 
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am simply unaware of an infrastructure to support laymen anointing each other with oil. I am also unaware of liturgical ritual books or prayers that are prescribed for lay anointings.
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Nobody mention antointing each other, we talk about someone blessing themself alone which isn’t ilicit.
 
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Water is not merely blessed, it is Holy Water, which is constituted by a specific rite, and expressly given to the faithful for us to have and use in our homes for blessing ourselves.
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Yes water is blessed by priest and then becomes Holy Water. The same is with oil.
Blessed oil is also sold in Catholic stores. Never heard that it isn’t allowed.
I don’t understand what is problem here?
 
You pay for the bottle not the sacramental in it. That isn’t simony
 
Actually yes, I should write that catholic stores sell bottles with free blessed oil/water/salt inside.

I think I saw it also on some Lourdes pages for Holy water with exactly the same descriptions. And price is always symbolic.
 
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Self-anointing has an interesting history in the Church - people used to pour oil through martyrs’ tombs and pick it up when it came out the other side; the idea being that it would pick up some of the holiness of the saints relics on the way through! The risk here with what the OP is describing is confusion with anointing of the sick which, because of its penitential character, is reserved to priests. I’m guessing that the blessing with which the oil was blessed wasn’t the same formula used for blessing the oil of the sick (which any priest can do if needed) and that, when she anoints herself at home the OP doesn’t use the sacramental formula. That aside, the healing and reconciling aspects of the sacrament shouldn’t be separated - even though what the OP is doing isn’t sacramental, it’s sort of taking one part of the sacrament (the anointing) and separating it from the other. While lay-anointing was a thing historically in the Church, developments in our understanding of the sacraments of anointing and reconciliation mean it is no longer. So while what the OP is doing may not be strictly illicit, that doesn’t mean that it should be encouraged. Instead, find a priest; be healed, be freed.
 
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Yes, I am under a very strict priest

I suddenly have a need to cook Italian, lol!

Please send me receipies, ha ha ha!

I need to find a receipie thread
 
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By the way, I am in love with the Catholic Church and am so happy that I became Catholic just a year ago.

It’s so beautiful, majestic, and reverent.

Thank you, Jesus, for the healings you have given to me, as well as the crosses, so that I may grow in faith.

Thank you for the Priests who have led me and are continuing to lead me in the faith, keeping me from any corruption as far as they are able, sacrificing their lives for others, bearing their burdens, and blessing us all by their living in persona christie every day of their lives.

I pray to continue to learn, to grow in virtues and courage in the faith, and especially in love for others.

PAX
 
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That looks like spaghetti bolognese, is it? I cooked some of that just the other evening for dinner.

Growing up, that was “spaghetti” — we knew no other. We didn’t add the “bolognese” — we wouldn’t have even known what that was. And we didn’t know what olive oil was either — we knew it existed, but it wasn’t something we used or had any familiarity with. I was raised very simply. (And no, we weren’t Italian.) We didn’t even have a microwave or a dishwasher, we could have afforded them, we just didn’t use them.

My son cannot believe how bare-bones I was raised.
 
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