Concerned Catholic: Mum will be 90 soon. She is really well cared for in her home, but is extremely frail. We have been warned that it might not be long now. When I went yesterday, Fr Tom was there, having taken her Communion. Talking outside her room, he suggested that he anoint her. I told him I wasn’t comfortable with that. It would make Mum really anxious. I am thinking of telling him he must not do this.
Chaplain: It is very good to hear that your mother is being well cared for in her nursing home, and that her spiritual needs are being attended to. If Fr Tom thinks it is right for your mother to be anointed, then I am sure this would be the best thing to do. Let me try explain why this is so.
