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SZYMON DRZYŻDŻYK veniences for reasons of hygiene or difficulty in changing the position of a very sick man, the anointing i e the ears Therefore, the most appropriate would be a shortened anointing on the forehead – in order of importance; in the ordinary administration two anointings, on the forehead and on the hands This follows from the overall symbolism: the forehead shows the activity of the inner man, his hands outside activity The eighth subcommittee was to focus on developing all reported modi from 29 November to December 1962 The provision was then clarified that the anointing occurs before the reception of Viaticum, and not the Eucharist before the anointing, as it was before Proposal that the priest can carry the oil of sick during the journey was sent to the Congregation for the Sacraments With regard to the prayer, it was to be fixed to two or three appropriate to the patient‘s condition, but this was to be addressed by the preparatory committee for the new ritual The Commission also disagreed with the statement that the celebrant must be well versed in the state of health of the patient, in order to fairly evaluate whether the patient can participate in the abbreviated form of the rite or the ordinary one In terms of the new formula of the sacrament, the matter was referred to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (7 December 1965, the Holy Office) Such matters as the number and location of anointings and the matter how of concelebrants administer the sacrament were transferred to the competence of a future, post-conciliar commission, which would deal with the new ritual.67 All of the above proposed solutions were recognized by the council Fathers during the Congregation of the General Council of 15 October 1963 The problem of whether the sacrament could be repeated still remained before the Fathers.68 In the approved text of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy there is no mention of this issue To make it clear why it was decided to opt out of this issue it is necessary to go back to the conciliar hall The Council of Trent established the following standard; „if the sick after receiving this unction, shall recover, they may again be assisted by the support of this sacrament, when they fall under a similar danger of death.“69 This decision was the interpretation of the Roman Ritual: do not allow the repetition of the sacrament in the same disease; the condition of repetition had to be recovery from the previous condition and the recur67 68 69 30 cf J STEFAŃSKI, Sakrament , s. 53 This has to do with article 60 of the schema that was: in a long-term illness sometimes the holy anointing may be repeated – unctio sacra in diuturna infirmitate aliquando iterari potest Perceval, A P. Roman Schism Of the Minister of the Sacrament and the Time when it ought to be Given, p 275