Father Mike Schmitz

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James, the Lord's word does convict those who, he says, you've lived on earth in luxury and in pleasure.

You've fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

You've condemned, you've killed the righteous man.

Have I inadvertently, by buying certain products, have I withheld the wages of those who made those products?

And I don't know, I have to find that out because if I don't, I'm liable for not finding that out.

The last thing I wanna highlight is the fact that we have seven sacraments in the Catholic Church and in the Orthodox Church, and one of those sacraments is a sacrament of healing, and that's the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

I'm also of confession and of the sacrament of healing.

And where do you get that?

Well, we get that here from the letter of James.

He says, is anyone among you sick?

Let him call for the elders.

The word there is presbyteroi, for we get priests from.

Call the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And the prayer of faith will save the sick person and the Lord will raise him up.

If he's committed any sins, he'll be forgiven.

So that's the kind of the origin of the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

But also it's also connected to the sacrament of confession.

Because it says that the priests will pray over them and they will be forgiven of all their sins.

And then the next line is, therefore, confess your sins to one another.