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  • About Us
    • Our History
    • Final Mass at Sacred Heart Church
  • DONATE
  • The Shrine
    • Updates
    • Announcement
    • Interior
    • On Site
  • Sacraments
    • Baptism
    • First Reconciliation & Eucharist
    • Confirmation
    • Marriage
    • Funeral
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Anointing of the Sick

Because of the new privacy laws, only family members are informed if one of our parishioners is in the hospital.   If you or a loved one are in the hospital and would like a visit from Fr. Nathan, please inform the hospital staff.    
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The anointing of the sick is administered to bring spiritual and even physical strength during an illness, especially near the time of death. It is most likely one of the last sacraments one will receive. A sacrament is an outward sign established by Jesus Christ to confer inward grace. In more basic terms, it is a rite that is performed to convey God’s grace to the recipient, through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Like all the sacraments, holy anointing was instituted by Jesus Christ during his earthly ministry. The Catechism explains, "This sacred anointing of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord as a true and proper sacrament of the New Testament. 

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). These graces flow from the atoning death of Jesus Christ, for "this was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, ‘He took our infirmities and bore our diseases’" (Matt. 8:17). 
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"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; the forgiveness of sins, if the sick person was not able to obtain it through the sacrament of penance; the restoration of health, if it is conducive to the salvation of his soul; the preparation for passing over to eternal life" (CCC 1532). 

Does a person have to be dying to receive this sacrament? No. The Catechism says, "The anointing of the sick is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death. Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived" (CCC 1514). 

​Phone 403-678-5022     Fax 403-678-1834     
Emergency No. ​403-675-5044 

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Our sister parish in the Bow Valley is St. Mary's of the Assumption in Banff
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