The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is offered at the Church four times a year after the weekend Masses and may be received by any Catholic who is suffering from complications of illness or old age, is anticipating hospitalization or surgery or feels the need of God's healing grace.

Members of the parish may call the office to request the Sacrament if they have been hospitalized or are in hospice care. It is best to call in time for the recipient to be an active and willing participant in the Sacrament.

As to Anointing by conferring the Holy Spirit completes the sacrament of baptism, so extreme unction is the complement and completion of penance. Penance restores the justification lost by sin, extreme unction takes away the infirmity left by sin; it 'removes that state which might be an obstacle to the clothing with glory of the resurrection'; and, as every sacrament makes us men in some respect like Christ, 'so we become by extreme unction like the risen Christ because it will be given to the dying as a sign of the glory to come in which everything mortal will be stripped from the elect' (Albertus Magnus). According to the teaching of great theologians, the holy anointing makes the man who stands at the threshold of eternity and loyally cooperates with the grace of the sacrament ready to enter directly upon the Beatific Vision.