Through this sacrament we pray for physical healing and are grateful for its primary effect which is the spiritual healing by which we receive the Holy Spirit’s gift of peace and courage to deal with the difficulties that accompany our suffering.
The anointing of the sick conveys several graces and imparts gifts of strengthening in the Holy Spirit against anxiety, discouragement, and temptation, and conveys peace and fortitude (CCC 1520).
Anointing will be administered to all Catholics wishing to receive this sacrament due to poor or declining health; including, but not limited to, anyone facing surgery, prolonged rehabilitation or convalescence, all affected by depression or anxiety and the elderly weakened by age.
Following the Mass, all participants and their family/escorts, are invited to Clairvaux Hall, the lower Church, for a luncheon served by the St Michael the Archangel Ladies of Charity.
We look forward to praying with you and sharing a meal on May 21st. Please contact Angela Gaughan, Pastoral Associate at 412-561-6021 or agaughan@smapgh.org to register for the Mass or both the Mass and the luncheon.
The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick has as its effects: the uniting of the sick person to the passion of Christ, for his own good and that of the whole Church; the strengthening, peace, and courage to endure in a Christian manner the sufferings of illness or old age...(CCC 1532)