Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:
1. Since the remission of actual sins comes by extremeunction, and since the office of forgiving sins is proper toChrist's priesthood, no lay person can administer thissacrament.
2. Nor can a deacon administer it. Scripture says (James5:14) with reference to extreme unction: "Is any man sickamong you? Let him bring in the priests of the church . .."
3. The conferring of extreme unction is not reserved tobishops; this sacrament is regularly conferred by any priest withinthe parish or district assigned to his care by competentecclesiastical authority.
"Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts."
St Philip Neri
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"Many words do not satisfy the soul; but a good life eases the mind and a clean conscience inspires great trust in God."
Thomas á Kempis
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"It is well to choose some one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never to abandon it."
St Philip Neri
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