Glad I got all the words I wanted in the subject line. Anyway. I haven't been here in years. But my mom is in her latter stages of dementia and it's very hard telling from one day to the next what her condition will look like. The hospice people said that the nearby parish, whose name I'm familiar with, are very nice people and if I call for getting my mom anointed by the priest, they will help out, but I'm afraid they might not. I don't know what to say to them if I were to call. I don't want to lie by omission (which I don't plan to do, don't get me wrong), but if they knew the truth, they might refuse it. She had apostatized from the Catholic faith in her early adult life, did not show any signs of returning to it, and is married to a man who had been married before back in Pakistan. What saddens me is that if she were lucid right now, I'm very certain that she would outright reject the notion that her marriage to my dad is not valid, and that alone would cause her not to want to return to her faith. I agree with the teachings of Jesus Christ on divorce and remarriage, but in this fallen world, it is obvious that not everyone will see eye to eye on it.
How would you feel if you were in this situation? If you were recommended to call a priest for the Anointing of the Sick, would you feel awkward doing it, knowing that your loved one is probably disqualified? I've been looking up Anointing of the Sick for older sick people in danger of dying but from what I see, it's for people who have been faithful Catholics prior to becoming incapacitated. It's a very difficult pill to swallow. The hospice people don't know the details of my mom's personal life that I mentioned in this post.
How would you feel if you were in this situation? If you were recommended to call a priest for the Anointing of the Sick, would you feel awkward doing it, knowing that your loved one is probably disqualified? I've been looking up Anointing of the Sick for older sick people in danger of dying but from what I see, it's for people who have been faithful Catholics prior to becoming incapacitated. It's a very difficult pill to swallow. The hospice people don't know the details of my mom's personal life that I mentioned in this post.