What happened to last rites?

[CB_Catholic]

I had a rare and aggressive non-Hodgkin’s T-cell lymphoma, for which there is no standard medical treatment. Stage IV. 50+ tumors throughout my lymphatic system and cancer in my bone marrow. About two months to live. I received the Anointing. This was almost four years ago now, and there is no evidence of the disease today. My Fred Hutchinson research oncologist, not a religious man, calls it a miracle.
Unlike the three Sacraments of initiation, or of Holy Orders, the Anointing is a Sacrament that we are intended to receive as often as we have need. The very humbling aspect of this is that, if we receive healing, it is a revelation from God that our salvation is not yet complete.

Praise God for your healing!

I understand your last statement well–I should be dead for these past 15 years, but my cardiac condition was discovered by “accident” and I was able to have surgery to correct it. My cardiologist said it was a miracle I hadn’t dropped dead in my tracks. Anyway, after this was all over, I realized that God certainly was not finished with me yet, that I had a lot of “cleaning up” to be done in me, that I really was not fit for His kingdom, and He was merciful enough not to take me in that spiritual state.

Oh yeah, that can be humbling.

 

[po18guy]

Praise God for your healing!

I understand your last statement well–I should be dead for these past 15 years, but my cardiac condition was discovered by “accident” and I was able to have surgery to correct it. My cardiologist said it was a miracle I hadn’t dropped dead in my tracks. Anyway, after this was all over, I realized that God certainly was not finished with me yet, that I had a lot of “cleaning up” to be done in me, that I really was not fit for His kingdom, and He was merciful enough not to take me in that spiritual state.

Oh yeah, that can be humbling.

And, it stands as stark evidence of His mercy. Let us both be miracles then!

 

[Big_Feet]

Another change brought about by Vatican II.
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It’s like we’re losing our Catholic identity in little ways.

I wholeheartedly disagree. With time and review of the official documents and writings of Vatican II, the council fathers have helped us as Catholics BETTER understand our Faith and identity in little ways, such as this sacrament, by re-educating and expanding the understanding of the faithful on the TRUE meaning and use of our Faith and the sacraments.

I am not talking here of the potential misinterpretations that many here despise from after this powerful Church council, but the actual documents and approved writings that came directly from the council fathers.

 

[TrueLight]

I had a rare and aggressive non-Hodgkin’s T-cell lymphoma, for which there is no standard medical treatment. Stage IV. 50+ tumors throughout my lymphatic system and cancer in my bone marrow. About two months to live. I received the Anointing. This was almost four years ago now, and there is no evidence of the disease today. My Fred Hutchinson research oncologist, not a religious man, calls it a miracle.
Unlike the three Sacraments of initiation, or of Holy Orders, the Anointing is a Sacrament that we are intended to receive as often as we have need. The very humbling aspect of this is that, if we receive healing, it is a revelation from God that our salvation is not yet complete.

What a wonderful testimony. I remember reading the prayer thread in the prayer intentions forum that was created to pray for healing for you.

 

[TimothyH]

I had a rare and aggressive non-Hodgkin’s T-cell lymphoma, for which there is no standard medical treatment. Stage IV. 50+ tumors throughout my lymphatic system and cancer in my bone marrow. About two months to live. I received the Anointing. This was almost four years ago now, and there is no evidence of the disease today. My Fred Hutchinson research oncologist, not a religious man, calls it a miracle.
Unlike the three Sacraments of initiation, or of Holy Orders, the Anointing is a Sacrament that we are intended to receive as often as we have need. The very humbling aspect of this is that, if we receive healing, it is a revelation from God that our salvation is not yet complete.

This is amazing testimony. This is Biblical, like the healing in the Gospels. Praise God.

You know that this grace was granted through Mary, right? The grace of the sacraments come to us through Mary. Have you given thought to consecrating yourself to her in return?

I have some knowledge of what you went through. My daugher Stephanie had Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and died of it in 1996 at 4.5 years old, one year and four days after a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. She was treated at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City. We looked at going to Fred Hutchinson. You were blessed to be able to be treated there.

Here is the kicker… Her funeral Mass and burial was on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, August 15. The Church just doesn’t do funerals on such a solemnity which is also a holy day of obligation. Someone talked to someone and Mary got it done.

People don’t realize that there are only two kinds of sacraments. If you look in the Catechism, you will see two headings, Sacraments of Initiation and Sacraments of Healing. People think of confession as a sacrament of forgiveness, but it is so much more. Forgiveness is great as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. God wants to heal us of our sins.

-Tim-

 

[po18guy]

What a wonderful testimony. I remember reading the prayer thread in the prayer intentions forum that was created to pray for healing for you.

Of course, there is a lot more to the story, but I credit the prayers of my fellow CAF members with much of it. Being healed is easy to swallow - being shown by the healing that more work is necessary for my salvation goes down a little harder.

 

[TrueLight]

But “Last Rites” hasn’t gone anywhere. You can still call a priest for last rites if someone is dying.

-Tim-

Awesome.

I just want to say thanks everyone who responded to what I said.

I also want to say that I absolutely believe in the anointing of the sick and power of prayer.

 

[po18guy]

This is amazing testimony. This is Biblical, like the healing in the Gospels. Praise God.

You know that this grace was granted through Mary, right? The grace of the sacraments come to us through Mary. Have you given thought to consecrating yourself to her in return?

I have some knowledge of what you went through. My daugher Stephanie had Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and died of it in 1996 at 4.5 years old, one year and four days after a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. She was treated at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City. We looked at going to Fred Hutchinson. You were blessed to be able to be treated there.

Here is the kicker… Her funeral Mass and burial was on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, August 15. The Church just doesn’t do funerals on such a solemnity which is also a holy day of obligation. Someone talked to someone and Mary got it done.

People don’t realize that there are only two kinds of sacraments. If you look in the Catechism, you will see two headings, Sacraments of Initiation and Sacraments of Healing. People think of confession as a sacrament of forgiveness, but it is so much more. Forgiveness is great as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. God wants to heal us of our sins.

-Tim-

Although it was not a spontaneous healing, and involved being nearly killed with chemotherapy, my prognosis went from poor to very poor after an immediate post-chemo relapse. However, at the exact moment when I was scheduled for a final massive chemo infusion and subsequent palliative care, a clinical trial of a drug for my exact lymphoma opened up. I entered the trial just over three years ago and have remained in complete response ever since.

I haven’t thought about consecration to Mary, but I know that Saint Bernadette has been pulling for me all along - even before my baptism. But, that’s another story. I credit my CAF family and their persistent prayers for the graces that I have received.

 

[tradcathusa]

Young Trad Cath, can you help me out? In the traditional Rite of Extreme Unction, doesn’t the Apostolic Blessing which carries the plenary indulgence omit the requirement of being free from the attchment to sin? I thought I was taight this long ago and that is why it is so important to get the priest to the dying. Waiting to hear from you