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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Prayers and sacramental care offered to someone approaching death, including reconciliation, anointing of the sick and final Holy Communion.
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Specification 3.1.6.4 · Paper 1
Revise: Liturgies of Life and DeathThe last rites are prayers and sacramental care offered to someone approaching death. They include reconciliation, anointing of the sick and final Holy Communion, called Viaticum. Prayers commending the dying person to God accompany this care.
Distinguish the last rites, which prepare a living person for death, from the funeral rite, which follows death. The funeral rite is not itself a sacrament.
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