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To: NYer

No offense, but it looks like a plastic “Sick Call” set. (Do priests still make Sick Calls?)


13 posted on 11/28/2008 9:43:57 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Oratam

Ours does every week, and also visits the home-bound in the neighboring parish 20 miles away where the priest neglects his duty in that regard.


17 posted on 11/28/2008 10:56:16 AM PST by baa39 (www.FightFOCA.com - innocent lives depend on you)
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To: Oratam
(Do priests still make Sick Calls?)

My pastor not only visits sick parishioners, he also says Mass at a local hospital and then makes sick calls in the hospital. He has shared some of those experiences with us in different homilies. Recently he commented on a politician in the hospital who had just learned he had a fatal illness. The politician asked Father to hear his confession in which he repented for having adopted a 'pro choice' stance during his elected term. Recognizing the error as he approached death, he asked Father what he could do at this late hour. Father told him to share begin by acknowledging this error with his own family.

20 posted on 11/28/2008 4:44:36 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: Oratam

Sacrament of the Annointing of the Sick

Yes, they do. And there are sometimes deathbed conversions when the priests administers the Sacraments of
Baptism
Eucharist
Condiemation
and Annointing of the Sick.

Our priest performed a fifth Sacrament for a dying man — a marriage to his lady friend of many years. (They were long term members of the parish in good standing.)


25 posted on 11/28/2008 10:14:19 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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