If bedridden or hospitalized call the Parish office (281-463-7878) and ask for a priest or deacon to come to the bedside of the person in need of anointing.

If you wish to receive the Anointing of the Sick prior to surgery or at any other time of illness and are ambulatory, you can request the anointing from a priest following a Mass or call for an appointment at the Parish office (281-463-7878).

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1514-1515; 1532): 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."

If a sick person who received this anointing recovers his health, he can in the case of another grave illness receive this sacrament again. If during the same illness the person's condition becomes more serious, the sacrament may be repeated. It is fitting to receive the Anointing of the Sick just prior to a serious operation. The same holds for the elderly whose frailty becomes more pronounced.

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.