charismatic heresy

UNMASKING THE CHARISMATIC HERESY "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths" 2 Timothy 4:3-4 - "False messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders in order to mislead, if that were possible, the elect" Mark 13: 22 - "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church" Pope Paul VI

11.19.2006

HOLY OIL



Someone should tell charismatics that what they do with "holy oil" is illicit and violates the guidelines.

It is a standard practice at large charismatic gatherings, (conferences) and healing services for the leaders and keynote speakers to administer “holy oil”. “Holy oil” (a sacramental) is carried in purses and pockets, charismatics are always ready and eager to use it. They use it to anoint themselves, each other, even family members. This is a wide spread problem. In all probability, when a bishop approves a healing service or a charismatic conference or a parish priest sends the charismatic brethren for a home visit, they wouldn’t think about lay people administering holy oil.

To correct this problem a new document came out in 1997 titled; "Instruction on Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of the Priest."

It was signed by the Pope and seven heads of Vatican dicasteries, the
Congregation for the Clergy, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council of the Laity, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

From Article 9 in "practical provisions" to "correct abuses" related to anointing with oil: "In using sacramentals, the non-ordained faithful should ensure that these are in no way regarded as sacraments whose administration is proper and exclusive to the bishop and to the priest. Since they are not priests, in no instance may the non-ordained perform anointings either with the Oil of the Sick or any other oil..." (emphasis added is mine)

"It must also be affirmed that the reservation of the ministry of anointing to the priest is related to the connection of [the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick] to the forgiveness of sin and the worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist. No other person may act as ordinary or extraordinary minister of the sacrament since such constitutes simulation of the sacrament."

Therefore, the Catholic use of the sacramental, “blessed oil “is to be administered by priests only. Although each bishop has the duty to establish norms for his own diocese, those norms pertain only to liturgical services of healing and there is no provision for the bishop to make norms for anointing by the non-ordained within a liturgy or outside of it.

at 19.11.06

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