These are some of the words given by the Church of England for administering the sacrament of anointing. The sacrament of anointing might be more familiarly known as ‘extreme unction’, but this is misleading. There’s nothing extreme about this Sacrament. Anointing with oil has long been, and continues to be, an important part of the Christian life. As ‘Christians’, we are followers of the ‘anointed one’. […]