Read the Catechism in a Year
Day 199 - Who administers the Anointing and what is "Viaticum"?
Who can administer the Anointing of the Sick?
Administering the Anointing of the Sick is reserved to bishops and priests, for it is Christ who acts through them by virtue of their ordination.
What is meant by “Viaticum”?
Viaticum means the last Holy Communion that a person receives before dying.
Rarely is Communion so vitally necessary as in the moment when a person sets out on the path that completes his earthly life: In the future he will have only as much life as he has in union (communion) with God. (YOUCAT questions 246-247)
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