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#358365 - 01/20/11 09:01 AM
Oil for the Holy Mysteries
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In the '70s I understand Pope Paul VI of blessed memory, issued a decree stating that henceforth, oil for the Anointing of the Sick could be any oil derived from plants, and no longer just olive oil.
1) was this decree only for the Latin Church or for the entire Catholic Communion of Churches?
2) can the Holy Myron (Chrism) now be confected from any plant oil or is it still necessary to utilize olive oil?
I got to thinking about this issue when I was recently given some of the holy oil from the lampada @ the reliquary of St. John Maximovich.
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#358370 - 01/20/11 01:40 PM
Re: Oil for the Holy Mysteries
[Re: sielos ilgesys]
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sielos ilgesys, The following is from Sacram Unctionem Infirmorum: Therefore, since this revision in certain point’s touches upon the sacramental rite itself, by our Apostolic authority we lay down that the following is to be observed for the future in the Latin Rite:
THE SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK IS ADMINISTERED TO THOSE WHO ARE DANGEROUSLY ILL, BY ANOINTING THEM ON THE FOREHEAD AND HANDS WITH OLIVE OIL, OR, IF OPPORTUNE, WITH ANOTHER VEGETABLE OIL, PROPERLY BLESSED, AND SAYING ONCE ONLY THE FOLLOWING WORDS: "PER ISTAM SANCTAM UNCTIONEM ET SUAM PIISSIMAM MISERICORDIAM ADIUVET TE DOMINUS GRATIA SPIRITUS SANCTI, UT A PECCATIS LIBERATUM TE SALVET ATQUE PROPITIUS ALLEVIET. The following is from the Code of Canon Law (Latin): Can. 847 §1. In administering the sacraments in which holy oils must be used, the minister must use oils pressed from olives or other plants and, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 999, n. 2, consecrated or blessed recently by a bishop; he is not to use old oils unless it is necessary. Regarding the Holy Myron, this is from the Code of Canons of the Eastern Church: Canon 693: Holy myron, which is made from the oil of olives or other plants and from aromatics, is confected only by a bishop, with due regard for particular law which reserves this power to the patriarch. I was taught that another vegetable oil should only be used if there is no olive oil available. I would think such cases in which another oil has to be used would be rare. I hope this helps.
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