Oral Examination December 2009

SACRAMENTOLOGY III

Oral Examination


Part A – Obligatory - Say the prayers the priest says when he is anointing the sick person (4).


Part B – In this section, the Student is required to answer only two questions from the following.

1 Elaborate the chief elements in the rite of individual reconciliation (14).
2 Explain briefly the following: Order of Penitents, Corporate Repentance, Indulgences, Communal Reconciliation with Individual Confession (14).
3 Explore the main points in the healing ministry of Jesus (14).
4 Discuss the following terms: ‘wounded healer,’ the significance of James 5.14-15, symbol of oil, laying on of hands and Viaticum (14).
5 What reforms did the Second Vatican Council make in relation to the Sacrament of Anointing? (14)
6 Elaborate the chief elements in the rite of anointing of the sick (14).
7 What graces and responsibilities does this sacrament facilitate for the sick person? (14)


Part C – The lecturer will ask two of the following questions.

1 Name five strands of thinking in regard to sickness and healing in the Old Testament (9).
2 Explain the importance of James 5.14-15. Give some reasons why anointing of the sick developed into a deathbed ministry in the Middle Ages (9).
3 Name some reforms made by the Second Vatican Council in relation to the Sacrament of Anointing (9).
4 Who may receive the sacrament of anointing? How does it reveal Jesus Christ? (9)
5 Explain briefly what indulgences are (9).
6 What graces and responsibilities does the sacrament of anointing facilitate for the community? (9)
7 What responsibilities does this sacrament facilitate for the sick person? (9)