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The Sacraments of Penance and Anointing
OUR class will meet in Classroom 6 on Mondays and Thursdays from 4:00-4:50. Feel free to explore the various sections of this course available through this site.
FINAL
EXAMINATION
(ThS 574),
Fall 2014
Please complete all three questions.
1) Create a handout you intend to use to help penitents prepare for and celebrate the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. This should be your own work, and not simply a copy of a handout currently in use in a parish you visit. At the minimum: It should include: (1) assistance in making an examination of conscience, (2) biblical texts for meditation and/or use during the celebration of the sacrament; (3) suggested Prayers of the Penitent (Acts of Contrition). You may also include whatever other information or texts you believe will be of assistance to penitents. . (The handout may be of any size or format you choose (i.e.: folded or unfolded 8 ½ by 11 or 8 ½ by 14; brochure; etc.).
Please explain how you intend to use this handout: will you make it available outside the confessional to those who are waiting, and/or have it in the confessional to be given to each penitent?
In answering the following two questions, when you refer to numbered sections of Catholic Teaching Documents (canons, encyclicals, the Catechism, etc.) DO NOT simply cut and paste text into your answer. SUMMARIZE ACCURATELY what the relevant text says and explain why you have cited it, just as you would in any real pastoral situation.
2) You are asked to see a hospitalized member of the parish of which you are pastor. You have never seen him at mass, but you recognize his name from the parish mailing list. He is 89 years old, and has been told that he is dying. He tells you that he has not been to confession in more than twenty years, but that he would like “to make things right now”. He has been married three times, the first time in the Church, and the next two times in secular ceremonies. All three of his spouses are still living. He tells you he is not sure what sacraments to ask for, and he requests that you “bless” his present union before he dies.
What do you tell him about his marriage? What do you offer him?
3) After finishing with the parishoner described above you are approached by a nurse who asks you to see the patient and family in the next room. The patient was declared brain-dead eight hours ago and will be taken to the operating room to have his organs removed in about an hour. The patient, whom you do not know, is a Catholic; but the nurse is not sure whether he was anointed or received communion during this hospitalization.
His wife has been with him daily throughout this hospital stay, and she gave consent for the organ donation (she is designated as his surrogate decision-maker in a valid Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care); but she is exhausted and has now gone home. The patient’s two estranged children have just arrived from out-of-state. They are his children from a previous marriage (he was a widower) and are not on speaking terms with the patient’s wife. They are angry and perplexed, and on seeing you they demand that you offer their father “Last Rites”.
What do you do? What rituals do you offer them (please be specific), and what do you tell them?
MIDTERM:
THE
SACRAMENTS
of
PENANCE
and
ANOINTING
(ThS 574),
Fall 2012
To be (1) sent via e-mail or (2) placed in the professor’s box within one
week
.(i.e. on or before October 31, 2008)
Please answer all three questions.
1) You are the recently-installed pastor of a large Catholic parish in an inland city on the West Coast. A thirty-year old parishoner whom you have seen at mass, but whom you do not know by name, has made an appointment to see you. She is a lawyer for the District Attorney’s Office in your city. Her husband is also a lawyer. They have no children and attend mass weekly.
The parishioner explains that she was raised a Catholic, and until the age of twenty she went to confession on average every two or three months. However, several years after her marriage, while attending law school, she began attending “non-denominational” worship services and stopped going to mass and confession. She has not participated in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation since that time. She began attending mass again about four years ago and receives communion each time she goes to mass.
She tells you that during her years away from the practice of her Catholic faith she was taught that God forgives the sins of all who repent. Nevertheless, she has recently begun to wonder whether there might be some value to returning to confession. She asks you why it is necessary to confess her sins to a human being.
What do you tell her? If you choose to recommend that she read something, please summarize or quote - and explain (!) - what she will find in that text.
2) Your next appointment of the morning is a member of the parish council appointed by your predecessor. He is a fifty year-old public high school teacher who is very enthusiastic, but has never studied theology. He tells you he has heard of a neighboring parish where general absolution is regularly offered at penance services. He tells you that he has heard this is approach is very popular, especially among divorced and remarried Catholics who have not obtained annulments. He wants you to offer this at the next scheduled penance service.
What do you tell him? (and again, summarize or quote any information he may find in texts you recommend, and explain what it means)
3) Having finished your explanation of General Absolution, the same parishioner is quiet for a few minutes, then brightens considerably and asks you very enthusiastically whether it would be possible to offer a service of Anointing of the Sick. He explains he has heard that the Sacrament of Anointing can “serve the same purpose” as General Absolution, “but with fewer restrictions”.
What do you tell him? What sort of an Anointing Service would you be willing to offer? As above, summarize / quote and explain any texts you may recommend.
WELCOME to ThS 574: PENANCE and ANOINTING.
OUR class will meet in classroom 2 from 8:00-9:50 on Tuesdays and from 11:00-11:50 on Thursdays. Before we meet you may wish to review the sections from the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the sacraments of healing, which may be accessed from the Lectures section of the course, or you may use the following link: Catechism_on_Healing .
FINAL
EXAM
(ThS 574),
Fall 2005
Please
complete all three questions.
1) Create a handout you intend to use to help penitents prepare for and celebrate the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. This should be your own work, and not simply a copy of a handout currently in use in a parish you visit. At the minimum: It should include: (1) assistance in making an examination of conscience, (2) biblical texts for meditation and/or use during the celebration of the sacrament; (3) suggested Prayers of the Penitent (Acts of Contrition). You may also include whatever other information or texts you believe will be of assistance to penitents. . (The handout may be of any size or format you choose (i.e.: folded or unfolded 8 ½ by 11 or 8 ½ by 14; brochure; etc.).
Please explain how you intend to use this handout: will you make it available outside the confessional to those who are waiting, and/or have it in the confessional to be given to each penitent?
In answering the following two questions, when you refer to numbered sections of Catholic Teaching Documents (canons, encyclicals, the Catechism, etc.) DO NOT simply cut and paste text into your answer. SUMMARIZE ACCURATELY what the relevant text says and explain why you have cited it, just as you would in any real pastoral situation.
2) You are asked to see a hospitalized member of the parish of which you are pastor. You have never seen him at mass, but you recognize his name from the parish mailing list. He is 89 years old, and has been told that he is dying. He tells you that he has not been to confession in more than twenty years, but that he would like “to make things right now”. He has been married three times, the first time in the Church, and the next two times in secular ceremonies. All three of his spouses are still living. He tells you he is not sure what sacraments to ask for, and he requests that you “bless” his present union before he dies.
What do you tell him about his marriage? What do you offer him?
3) After finishing with the parishoner described above you are approached by a nurse who asks you to see the patient and family in the next room. The patient was declared brain-dead eight hours ago and will be taken to the operating room to have his organs removed in about an hour. The patient, whom you do not know, is a Catholic; but the nurse is not sure whether he was anointed or received communion during this hospitalization.
His wife has been with him daily throughout this hospital stay, and she gave consent for the organ donation (she is designated as his surrogate decision-maker in a valid Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care); but she is exhausted and has now gone home. The patient’s two estranged children have just arrived from out-of-state. They are his children from a previous marriage (he was a widower) and are not on speaking terms with the patient’s wife. They are angry and perplexed, and on seeing you they demand that you offer their father “Last Rites”.
What do you do? What rituals do you offer them (please be specific), and what do you tell them?
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