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The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides this definition of prudence in no. 1806: \u201cPrudence <\/em>is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it.\u201d\u00a0 I want to suggest here that celebration of the sacrament of the anointing of the sick is a celebration, too, of this virtue of prudence.\u00a0 It does this in part since, as the Catechism also teaches (in no. 1521), one of the effects of anointing is union with the passion of Christ: \u201c<\/em>By the grace of this sacrament the sick person receives the strength and the gift of uniting himself more closely to Christ’s Passion: in a certain way he is consecrated to bear fruit by configuration to the Savior’s redemptive Passion. Suffering, a consequence of original sin, acquires a new meaning; it becomes a participation in the saving work of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Psalm 73, the psalmist proclaims that \u201cit is good for me to cling to God.\u201d\u00a0 Augustine makes use of this verse in his discussion of sacrifice in Book X of the City of God: \u201cSince true sacrifices are works of mercy, whether shown to ourselves or shown to our neighbors, which are directed to God; and since works of mercy are performed with no other object than that we might be delivered from misery and so become blessed\u2014which only happens by means of that good of which it is said, \u2018But for me the good is to cling to God,\u2019\u2014it obviously follows that the whole redeemed city, that is, the congregation and fellowship of the saints, is offered to God as a universal sacrifice through the great priest who, in his passion, offered himself for us in the form of a servant, to the end that we might be the body of such a great head.\u201d*<\/p>\n

Anointing unites the sick person with the passion of the great priest, Christ.\u00a0 It should be emphasized here that this union is not merely a matter of the sick person suffering and Christ suffering.\u00a0 Rather, union is truly effected and symbolized when the sick person suffers as<\/em> Christ suffered, namely, by persisting in an attitude and practice of self-offering love.\u00a0 This point is made clear in the French rite of anointing, which refers in no. 55 to the sick person \u201cs\u2019associant \u00e0 l\u2019attitude aimante de Jesus Christ dans sa passion et dans sa mort\u201d [associating himself \/ herself with the loving attitude of Jesus Christ in his passion and in his death].<\/p>\n

The \u201cgood\u201d in any situation is to engage in self-offering love.\u00a0 Anointing encourages the sick person to discern that true good despite the temptations induced by health-related suffering\u2014temptations to selfishness or preoccupation with oneself.\u00a0 The love in which they engage while suffering is a living manifestation of the love of Christ.\u00a0 One could certainly claim that those who love despite suffering are living icons of Christ.\u00a0 Being joined to and inspired by Christ, the sick who love become models and inspirations for the Christian community.\u00a0 They are models of love, yes, and of prudence.\u00a0 That prudence should be expressed in the lives of all the community, not just the sick.\u00a0 How do I cling to God at the office?\u00a0 How do I engage in self-offering love at school?\u00a0 At home, do I make it my business to help others love more easily?\u00a0 How do I build up the community into a true fellowship, a body for so great a head?<\/p>\n

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* Saint Augustine, The City of God<\/em> (Books 1-10), ed. Boniface Ramsey, trans. William Babcock (New York: New City Press, 2012), 311<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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