Last Rites / Anointing of the Sick
Oil, confession, and final Communion at the threshold of death
Last Rites minister to the seriously ill or dying through anointing with blessed oil, confession, and a final Communion called viaticum. The Letter of James commends anointing the sick, and Pope Innocent I addressed the practice in a letter of 416. Catholics and Orthodox, who call it Holy Unction, both keep it as a sacrament. Most Protestants reject it as a sacrament, though some retain prayer and anointing for the sick.
Key passages(13)
The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice · The Ecumenical Councils
The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
The Epistles of Cyprian. · Cyprian
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus · Socrates Scholasticus
The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament · Augustine of Hippo
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas
: or the Sin of Theft and Injustice · Jonathan Edwards
The Instructions of Commodianus. · Commodianus