Folia Theologica et Canonica 3. 25/17 (2014)

IUS CANONICUM - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem., Crystallization process of the ecclesiastical discipline regarding the sacrament of extreme unction and its canon law historical sources

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the effective Code of Canon Law Can. 1006.80 In contrast, the holy anointment is to be denied from a person who persists in external, public mortal sin (e.g., adulterous, notorious public sinner, who - although his acts would make it necessary - habitually, consciously, and notoriously does not live with the sacrament of penance).81 Administration must happen according to those words which were obligatory prescribed in the liturgical books - for validity. The liturgical books prescribe also the liturgical dress to be applied, from whose usage departure is permitted only in case of necessity.82 The place of administration is, according to the main rale, the home of the sick (the place of habitation).83

We must make an important note the problem of an extant local interdictum, which explicitly treated by the old manuals. As it is known, CIC (1917) Can. 2270 § 1 in places inside an effective interdictum locale generally forbade the administration of the sacraments. Despite of this, already § 2 of the same canon lists those feasts, when the prohibition deriving from the interdictum becomes suspended. Among this is the day of Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and Assumption. The curiosity of this is that these exceptions appeared even in the Liber Sextus of 129884, and became repeated on May 26lh 1429 by Pope Martin V (1417-1431) in his constitution Ineffabile.85

Inside the administration of the holy anointment the mode of anointing became determined a few times and in different forms during the Church’s history, whether we consider the customs accepted by the Eastern or the Western practice. In the Eastern practice it was customary to anoint the forehead, the loin, and the hands in the form of a cross; but the anointing at the part of the heart and on both sides of the hands also occurred.86 At present the administration of the anointment of the sick extends on the eyes, ears, nose, lips, chest, hands, and feet of the sick

.87 The Sacramentum Gregorianum, whose earliest version was made probably around 625/Ó3888. mentions the anointing of the neck between the throat and the nape, as well as at the area of the heart, and at the place of the illness or pain.89 If we take a look at the last edition of the old Rituale (1957), then we can see that at the normal administration of the holy anointment it list six anointing in the form of a cross, which includes the anointment

80 Cf. Erdő, P„ Egyházjog, 490.

81 PrOmmer, D. M., Manuale iuris canonici, Friburgi Brisgoviae 1922. 393.

82 Wernz, F. X. - Vidal, P., lus canonicum ad Codicis normám exactum, IV. 198.

83 Wernz, F. X. - Vidal, P., lus canonicum ad Codicis normám exactum, IV. 198.

84 VI 5. 11.24: Friedberg II. 1106-1107.

85 Martinus V, Const. Ineffabile (26 mai. 1429) § 3: Gasparri, P. - Serédi, I. (ed.), Codicis iuris canonici fontes, I. 61.

86 Liebermann, E. B., Institutiones Theologicae, II. 694 (n. 788).

87 Görögkatholikus egyházi szerkönyv (Euchologion), Budapest 1964. 63.

88 Klöckener, M., Sakramentar, in LThK3 Vili. 1455-1459.

89 PL LXXVIII. 235.