Contact the Parish Office (505-425-7791) to make arrangements for Anointing of the Sick. 

Persons who are conscious should prepare to go to confession when the priests visits to anoint them.
Holy Communion can also be received if the person is able to swallow.

Anointing of the sick can be requested as a person's health changes and a family should not wait for the danger of death to request anointing for a family member.  Request anointing as the person's conditions changes and if possible, while the person is conscious.    


 

"The Anointing of the Sick is a remarkable sign of God’s great love for us. In his merciful efforts to bring us safely to himself in heaven, God seems to have gone to the very limit.

Jesus has given us the sacrament of Baptism, in which original sin and all pre-Baptismal sins are cleansed from the soul. Allowing for mankind’s spiritual weakness, Jesus also gave us the sacrament of Penance, by which post-Baptismal sins could be forgiven. As though he were impatient lest a soul be delayed a single instant from its entry into heaven, Jesus gave to his Church the power to remit the temporal punishment due to sin, a power which the Church exercises in the granting of indulgences.

Finally, as though to make doubly sure that no one, except through his own deliberate fault, would lose heaven or even spend time in purgatory, Jesus instituted the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick."

-The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, Retrieved from http://www.beginningcatholic.com/anointing-of-the-sick.html