Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul

Sacrament of the Sick during Mass on the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle
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As usual Mass will be offered at 1800 on Thursday but there will also be an opportunity during this Mass for people to receive the Sacrament of the Sick & be anointed with Holy Oil which is the outward sign of this Sacrament.
The Church “believes and confesses that among the seven sacraments there is one especially intended to strengthen those who are being tried by illness, the Anointing of the Sick” (Canon 1511). Anyone who is being “tried” by illness of body mind or spirit may wish to consider receiving this sacrament. And of course we are more aware now that not all suffering or disability is necessarily able to be seen.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that: “By
the grace of the sacrament the sick person receives the
strength and the gift of uniting himself more closely to
Christ’s Passion: in a certain way he is consecrated to
bear fruit by configuration to the Savior’s redemptive
Passion” (Catechism 1521).
Just as the members of the Church are praying for the sick person, they help others through their suffering. “By celebrating the sacrament the Church, in the communion of saints, intercedes for the benefit of the sick person, and he, for his part, through the grace of this Sacrament, contributes to the sanctification of the Church and to the good of all men for whom the Church suffers and offers herself, through Christ to God the Father” (Catechism,1522).