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THEOLOGOS 1/2015 | ŠTÚDIE The Sacrament of the Sick according to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium 73 – 75 After the opening of the session on 11 October 1962 a  number of committees were established to deal with individual cases In the case of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick it was the Liturgical Commission, chaired by Cardinal A Larraona († 1973) The committee, due to the immensity of the work, was divided into thirteen subcommittees The matter of de sacramentis et sacramentalibus was addressed by the eighth subcommittee23, chaired by the Archbishop P. Hallinan († 1968) The composition of both the Commission and the eighth Subcommittee included the Polish Bishop Franciszek Jop († 1976) The subcommittee took the material that had been produced by the Preparatory Commission of the Council The content of the material under the numbers 57 to 60 were recorded postulates regarding the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick After a two-fold consideration of these four points, they were adopted at the plenary meeting of the Liturgical Commission held in late April and early May 1963 The newly developed points were read in Latin by Fr Stefanski24: 57 Extreme unction, which may also and more fittingly be called Unctio infirmorum, is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death Hence, as soon as any one of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age (senium), the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly (certe) already arrived 58 In addition to the separate rites for anointing of the sick and for viaticum, a continuous rite shall be prepared according to which the sick man is anointed after he has made his confession and before he receives viaticum 59 The number of the anointings is to be adapted to the occasion, and the prayers which belong to the rite of anointing are to be revised so as to correspond with the varying conditions of the sick who receive the sacrament As to point 60, which read: „the sacred anointing can sometimes be repeated during the course of a long term illness,“ the Commission put forth the postulate to omit the entire point due to a legitimate reason presented during the meeting The reason was that the wording of point 57, 23 24 For more on the Liturgical Commission, its division, and procedures see: R WILTGEN, Ren wpada do Tybru Historia Soboru Watykańskiego II, Poznań 2001, s. 79 – 82 cf J STEFAŃSKI, Sakrament , s. 37 – 39 19