Dissertation I. On Extreme Unction Considered in Itself

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Extreme Unction can be defined: the sacrament by which a sick person, through an anointing with blessed oil and the prayer of the priest, is relieved according to the soul, and, if it is expedient for the soul, also, at least sometimes, according to the body (cf. St. Thomas, In IV Sent., dist. 23, q. 1, a. 1, 2, 3, 4; q. 2, 1 and 2; St. Alphonsus, VI, 706). It is also called simply anointing, or the anointing of the sick, the sacrament of those departing, etc.

With this definition given, we shall treat first of the existence, then of the essence, then of the effects, and finally of the necessity of Extreme Unction.

Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick)The Nature of Extreme Unction

Within this part

Part I. On the Existence of Extreme Unctionnn. 564–565
Part II. On the Essence of Extreme Unctionnn. 566–574
- Section I. On the Remote Matternn. 566–567
- Section II. On the Proximate Matternn. 568–570
- Section III. On the Form and on the Union of Matter and Formnn. 571–574
  - Scholion. On the Special Character of Extreme Unctionn. 574
Part III. On the Effects of Extreme Unctionn. 575
Part IV. On the Necessity of Extreme Unctionnn. 576–577