This Evangelization Challenge can be put into play when you know a friend or family member is going in for major surgery, or is very sick. When someone tells you someone is close to the end of their life make sure to share with them the importance to get the Sacrament of Anointing of the sick before they are unconscious. Otherwise the person may not be able to have confession and receive the apostolic pardon of all their sins before the die. We want to ensure all people close to the end of their life have all the support possible to help them get to Heaven.

Scriptures Related to Anointing of the Sick

Mark 6:13 ESV

And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

James 5:14-15 ESV

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 John 2:27 ESV

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Isaiah 61:1 ESV

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Luke 7:46 ESV

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Luke 10:34 ESV

He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Acts 19:11-12 ESV

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Acts 28:8 ESV / 33

It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him, healed him.

Matthew 26:12 ESV

In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

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