Examination December 2010

SACRAMENTOLOGY III

Final Exam December 2010
In the exam three questions will appear from the following and you will be requested to answer one.


1. Describe the chief elements in the rite of individual reconciliation (20). Explain briefly the following: Order of Penitents (4), Corporate Repentance (4), Indulgences (7), Communal Reconciliation with Individual Confession (10). Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
2. Consider various strands of thinking in regard to sickness and healing in the Old Testament (10). Explore the main points in the healing ministry of Jesus (20). Describe briefly the following terms: ‘wounded healer,’ the significance of James 5.14-15, symbol of oil, laying on of hands and Viaticum (3 each). Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
3. What reforms did the Second Vatican Council make in relation to the Sacrament of Anointing? (20) Elaborate the chief elements in the rite of anointing of the sick (25). Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
4. Explain the importance of James 5.14-15 (12). Give some reasons why anointing of the sick developed into a deathbed ministry in the Middle Ages (15). Who may receive the sacrament of anointing? (9) How does it reveal Jesus Christ? (6) Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
5. Explain the reforms made by the Second Vatican Council in relation to the Sacrament of Anointing (30). What graces and responsibilities does this sacrament facilitate for the sick person and for the community? (25) Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
6. Discuss some guidelines that will assist a confessor in deciding on a suitable penance for a penitent in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (20). How should a confessor minister to a scrupulous penitent? (15) Explain briefly what indulgences are (10). Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).
7. Give an account of the development of the Sacrament of Anointing from the time of Pope Innocent I to the Council of Trent (25). What graces and responsibilities does the sacrament of anointing facilitate for the community? (10) What responsibilities does this sacrament facilitate for the sick person? (10). Write the prayers the minister recites when he is anointing the sick person (5).