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To: Smartaleck
The host doesn't go with "last rites".

Accepted. I am not Catholic, so I defer to someone who does know.

Another poster was referring to it as LAST RITES, and I assumed that was correct, as they have disconnected her tube and expect her to die. Made sense to me. Since communion is something that (I assume) is not given just before death ritually, it seemed LAST RITES would have been the proper term. I stand corrected.

Thank you for helping me correct my miscomprehension.

699 posted on 03/19/2005 6:44:52 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2
Since communion is something that (I assume) is not given just before death ritually, it seemed LAST RITES would have been the proper term. I stand corrected.

Communion is offered at every Sunday Mass.

703 posted on 03/19/2005 6:50:23 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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To: UCANSEE2
She was given Communion and "last rites", the proper term for which is Anointing of the Sick, one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ (Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Matrimony, Anointing of the Sick).
710 posted on 03/19/2005 7:06:58 PM PST by visualops
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