2012 – Homage Year Of The Extreme Unction And Looking After The Sick In The Romanian Patriarchate

29/12/2011 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Following the initiative of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel taken during the working session of 17 February 2011, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church approved to declare the year 2012 as Homage Year of the Extreme Unction and looking after the sick in the Romanian Patriarchate. In this sense, the Holy Synod Office worked out a frame programme with church national character for implementing in 2012 the spiritual religious, cultural editorial and media project entitled 2012 – Homage Year of the Extreme Unction and looking after the sick in the Romanian Patriarchate. In 2012, the Romanian Patriarchate and the eparchies of the country will organise pastoral-missionary conferences, theological colloquies, debates and spiritual evenings on the Extreme Unction Sacrament (Bible-patristic and historical presentation, theological existential significance, repeatability and effects of the Extreme Unction, non-Orthodox innovations and practice on the celebration of this Holy Mystery etc.) The professors of the Orthodox theological educational institutions will also draft studies, comments, bibliographies with Bible, patristic, historical, dogmatic, liturgical, homiletic-catechetic, pastoral and social-medical content on the Extreme Unction Sacrament.