The assumption that you have to be at death’s door to receive the sacrament of Anointing still lingers around Catholic culture and hinders the access of many people to the sacrament. In fact ...

The parishioners of St. Louis Gonzaga Church, 520 Rutger St. in Utica, New York will host an anointing and healing Mass at 6 ...

On April 16 this year, the Orthodox Church marks Holy Wednesday, a day that recalls the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas Iscariot and the anointing of Christ with precious ointment by a repentant ...

Christian worshipers pray at the Stone of Anointing at the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony during Easter Holy Week, at ...

The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition as the origin ... the better to signify the gift of the Holy Spirit, an anointing with perfumed oil ( chrism ) was added ...