{"id":40852,"date":"2018-02-22T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=40852"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:40:12","slug":"but-does-it-work-anointing-the-sick-as-a-model-response-to-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/but-does-it-work-anointing-the-sick-as-a-model-response-to-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"But Does It Work? &#8211; Anointing the Sick as a Model Response to Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">This piece was originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytheology.org\/2018\/02\/21\/but-does-it-work-anointing-the-sick-as-a-model-response-to-suffering\/\">here <\/a>at Daily Theology by Ben Durheim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Disclaimer<\/span><span class=\"s2\">: At the outset of this post, I feel I need to say at least one thing I\u2019m not talking about here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m not talking about suffering inflicted by sinful systems and actions, that we as humans should fight like hell to resist and prevent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In the wake of yet another horrific school shooting, as debates rage again about whether (!?!) and how to keep instruments of death from catalyzing such carnage, a moment is warranted to give that suffering primacy of place.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>That said, if, like me, you need a moment to think on things other than the maddeningly repetitious bloody mess of gun violence in the United States, please think with me here about suffering not inflicted by evil, but suffering which calls for accompaniment in the course of human life, sickness, and death.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>\u201c[A] pastoral process for anointing might best be done through the Easter cycle, beginning with Ash Wednesday or early in Lent \u2026 The communal celebration of anointing could then be celebrated during a major parish Mass on one of the Sundays in the Easter season, thereby proclaiming the vocation of the sick and elderly as a special share in the paschal mystery.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">-Bruce Morrill,\u00a0<i>Divine Worship and Human Healing\u00a0<\/i>(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009), 180.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Lent and Sinless Suffering<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">As I read these words from Bruce Morrill, I found myself moved to a recognition of what pastoral care for the sick and dying might bear witness to in the context of a world wher<\/span><span class=\"s2\">e suffering is inescapable and even necessary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This was particularly poignant for me this Lent, because besides currently traveling through Lent\u2019s second week, I recently finished reading John F. Haught\u2019s\u00a0<i>Resting on the Future<\/i>\u00a0(New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), in which he runs at a number of theological issues he believes need significant development if Christianity\u2014particularly Catholicism\u2014is to take seriously the notion that the universe is still coming into being, still unfinished.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>One of the chapters is on suffering, and while much of the book was stimulating, I found this portion to be distinctly unsatisfying, which is of course why I\u2019d like to spend some time here wrestling with the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Haught\u2019s attention in this chapter is mostly aimed at the question of what is sometimes called \u201cnatural evil,\u201d or suffering that does not have a cause easily blamed on sin or free will.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>After critiquing some of the classic theodicic arguments that attempt to explain suffering (i.e. that suffering is God\u2019s pedagogical tool, or that suffering fulfills some expiatory requirement), Haught more or less leaves his readers with the idea of what he calls \u201ccosmic hope\u201d in the context of a \u201cmetaphysics of the future\u201d (p. 98), the content of which seems to be an expectant humility before the unknown.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We Christians hope this existence is all developing toward the good, but exactly how we cannot say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This isn\u2019t theologically inconsistent so far as it goes, but to my reading, it leaves open the question of whether a God who looks at a world built on suffering\u2014from predation to pestilence to disease and natural disaster\u2014is actually worthy of worship.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It seems to me Christians should be ready to give an account of their hope (1 Peter 3:15), and I am not sure the best account (or really even a very helpful account) comes from desperately trying to reconcile theologies of a just and loving God with the sufferings of the world (or, in Haught\u2019s case, seemingly retreating into hope in things unseen).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>That said, next on my reading list is Elizabeth Johnson\u2019s\u00a0<i>Ask the Beasts\u00a0<\/i>(New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), so maybe my view will be amended after that encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Explanation vs. Accompaniment<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A more satisfying account, to my eyes at least, comes from letting theodicy fall away, and embracing the pastoral instead.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This is where Morrill\u2019s book does a fabulous job of approaching the question, albeit implicitly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Morrill\u2019s main thrust in the text is to articulate a cohesive liturgical theology of healing, but in doing so, he fleshes out a concept that would help immensely in giving a practical basis for Haught\u2019s cosmic hope:\u00a0<i>accompaniment<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Much of the early chapters of Morrill\u2019s book is devoted to developing a robust understanding of what \u201chealing\u201d might mean in the context of anointing the sick or pastoral care for the dying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He argues (especially in chapters 2 and 3) that healing is not, theologically speaking, exclusively or even primarily the category of moving from physical ailment to physical soundness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Instead, healing can be a development of wholeness and (re-)integration into one\u2019s community, such that healing is not simply experienced by the one anointed, but also by those who surround her or him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">It is this accompaniment that is the necessary condition (or at least one among others) to precipitate healing in the context of sickness or death.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Entering into and proclaiming the paschal mystery in this context of suffering can move the experience from \u201cwhy isn\u2019t this fixing me?\u201d to \u201cGod is present even and especially here.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Liturgical, ritual accompaniment in this sense is not \u201cstanding by\u201d while existence wreaks havoc on the body of a loved one; it is instead a witness to the love of God in the context of suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The reason I find this so compelling is that oftentimes when questions of God and natural evil boil up, the answers\u2014even if theo\/logically sound\u2014do not necessarily satisfy spiritually or bodily.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Oftentimes, at least in my experience, what I or my students long for in exploring questions of suffering is not the explanation of suffering, as if that would help, but the healing of suffering.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>To strive to explain suffering, often enough, can actually exacerbate it, deepening what can genuinely be an already tragic experience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>To enter into the story of the suffering person however, is something different entirely.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Even if a particular suffering cannot be alleviated or cured, the witness of God\u2019s presence in and through one\u2019s community provides a bodily\u2014as opposed to intellectual\u2014account of Christian hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This bodily, pastoral aspect is also why the connection to Christian ritual is so important.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is one thing to pledge one\u2019s presence verbally to a person who is sick or dying, but it is quite another to be present in body, and to take symbolic bodily action along with Christ and the church.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Ritual mediates this kind of\u00a0<i>real<\/i>\u00a0presence in a way that theodicy often simply cannot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>With no disrespect meant to Haught, I would rather my friends pray with me in suffering than explain to me why suffering is acceptable or necessary. 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