The ritual Pastoral Care of the Sick offers the church a wealth of assistance in visiting and praying with the sick, in facilitating services of Communion, and in tailoring the sacramental rites of anointing and Viaticum to meet the particular circumstances of each individual illness and journey into death. "Anointing of the Sick" is a theological introduction to the rite and focuses on the whole spectrum of pastoral care of the sick.
Lizette Larson-Miller explores the sacrament of the anointing of the sick and the crucial role played by a...
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The ritual Pastoral Care of the Sick offers the church a wealth of assistance in visiting and pray...
About the Contributor(s): Lizette Larson-Miller is Nancy and Michael Kaehr Professor of Liturgical Leadership and Dean of the Chapel at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Walter Knowles is an independent scholar and musician in Seattle, Washington.
About the Contributor(s): Lizette Larson-Miller is Nancy and Michael Kaehr Professor of Liturgical Leadership and Dean of the Chapel at the Church Div...