viaticum

Noun

Meaning

An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

Provisions for a journey.

The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

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A final chapter provides Rites for Exceptional Circumstances, namely, the Continuous Rite of Penance, Anointing, and Viaticum, Rite for Emergencies, and Christian Initiation for the Dying. Source: Internet

Both made good confessions and received the Holy Viaticum." Source: Internet

As the man was in a semi-comatose condition, I did not venture to administer the Holy Viaticum ; still I must add that he could be roused and was roused from this state in my presence. Source: Internet

Within that part, the chapter on Viaticum is followed by two more chapters, one on Commendation of the Dying, with short texts, mainly from the Bible, a special form of the litany of the saints, and other prayers, and the other on Prayers for the Dead. Source: Internet

Monastic communities were allowed to celebrate Mass in private from 1209 onwards, and late in 1212 the Holy Viaticum for the dying was authorised. Source: Internet

On 8 February, he asked for and received the Viaticum and was anointed. Source: Internet

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