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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Last Rites are the very last prayers and ministrations given to Christians at the time of death. The last rites go by various names and include different practices in different Christian traditions. They may be administered to those awaiting execution, mortally wounded or terminally ill. The ministration known as the Last Rites" does not constitute a distinct sacrament in itself. It is equivalent to the more commonly administered sacrament of "Anointing of the Sick", which when given to people who are extremely ill and believed to be near death includes two other distinct sacraments: Penance and the Eucharist, the last of which, when administered to the dying, is known as "Viaticum", a word whose original meaning in Latin was "provision for the journey". Under these circumstance the Anointing of the Sick may be considered 'Last Rites'. The normal order of administration is: first Penance (if the dying person is physically unable to confess, absolution will take place as part of the effect of Anointing), then Anointing, then Viaticum. "
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Last Rites are the very last prayers and ministrations given to Christians at the time of death. The last rites go by various names and include different practices in different Christian traditions. They may be administered to those awaiting execution, mortally wounded or terminally ill. The ministration known as the Last Rites" does not constitute a distinct sacrament in itself. It is equivalent to the more commonly administered sacrament of "Anointing of the Sick", which when given to people who are extremely ill and believed to be near death includes two other distinct sacraments: Penance and the Eucharist, the last of which, when administered to the dying, is known as "Viaticum", a word whose original meaning in Latin was "provision for the journey". Under these circumstance the Anointing of the Sick may be considered 'Last Rites'. The normal order of administration is: first Penance (if the dying person is physically unable to confess, absolution will take place as part of the effect of Anointing), then Anointing, then Viaticum. "
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