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INTRODUCTION
- Spirituality inspires and shapes the commitment of religious communities to found and sponsor
institutions to care for the sick
- Wellspring of moral living
- Spiritual disciplines have positive medical value and is significant in overall well-being of the
patient
- Holistic care = standard of care; modern practice that expresses philosophy of care
- Comprehensive and total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social,
economic and spiritual needs of the person; his or her response to illness; and effect of
the illness on the ability to meet self-care needs
- Spirituality is what we ultimately value with our commitment. It shapes the perspective from which
we see everything. The choices we make are based on the person we become and express our
spirituality.
- Christian spirituality ultimately values God and committed to live in relation to God, revealed in
Jesus, as the source and end of all love, the One in whom everything else has meaning and
worth
- Basic Christian Kerygma is that God has first loved us and that accepting this love opens us to
love all things in return so we must assume responsibility for ourselves, others and the world
Patient must weigh benefits and burdens. Weighing the benefits and burdens is influenced by the
patient’s spirituality. It will reflect what the patient values most about life.
CONCLUSION
The moral decision to refuse treatment or to undergo treatment cannot be separated from one’s
spirituality—deepest longing for what makes life ultimately meaningful.
Spirituality is not restricted to the inspiration of religious communities to engage in ministry of caring
for the sick nor is it just a practice of prayer and sacramental rituals. Rather, it encompasses the whole of
life lived in relation to God as or absolute value. It influences our outlook in life and supports our moral
character.
Ethics is not restricted to decision-making and justifying. Rather, it is also concerned with the inner
dynamics of personal action which is influenced by spirituality. To identify a problem and soke it is not just
a moral skill but also a measure of spirituality.
Healing and sustaining- have in mine something broader than physical and phychological healing and
encouragement in times of sickness, ministers cannot heal and sustain if they are not intimately
concerned with problems of physical and psychological health
C and reconciliation- especially effective when they occur in times of health crisis
PASTORAL CARE
- Directed to spiritual needs that are often appreciated more deeply during times of illness,
pastoral care is an integral part of Catholic health care.
- encompasses the full range gof spiritual services, including a listening presence; help dealing
with powerlessness, pain, and alienation; and assistance in recognizing and responding to
God’s will with greater joy and peace”
The specific spiritual task of pastoral care is not exhausted simply by counseling. It must
not be confined to talking about the presence of God, but it must deepen into experiencing
that presence in prayer, worship, celebration, and communion (CCC 2000, 1135 ff.).
Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Sickness is sometimes the reminder that we need that the sacrament of reconciliation, or
penance, is an apt means to facilitate conversion.
- This sacrament of reconciliation, or rite of penance, for the sick can be celebrated in the form
of a penance service in the hospital chapel or even in the ward, with the invitation to all who
wish to make individual confession and receive absolution
Baptism
- it still is obligatory to administer baptism to children to manifest the concern of the Church and
thus to keep alive the consciousness of the dignity of the human person from the first
moments of existence (CCC 2000, no. 1250)
- Consequently, nurses and physicians should baptize infants who are in danger of death and
even miscarried fetuses who exhibit human form and some sign of life.
- They should pour water on the child (on the head, if possible) so as actually to
touch its skin and should say, “I baptize you in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
- In this way they express Christian reverence and fellowship with this little
person who will forever be part of the Trinitarian community.
- If the infant is surely dead, baptism should not be administered, but the family of the infant
may be assured that God’s mercy has been implored through the prayers of the Church.
- For the dying unconscious adult, it is permissible also to perform such a baptism with the
condition, “If you are not baptized, I baptize you.” Clearly this is not a grave obligation unless
the person has asked to be baptized before lapsing into unconsciousness.
Eucharist
- the supreme sacrament and sign of the Christian community, indicating that such patients
remain a part of that community, even when absent from the public worship assembly, and
that they are destined for eternal life with the community (CCC 2000, nos. 1211, 1374; John
Paul II 2003) life-giving, health-giving sacrament, as the eating of bread and drinking of wine
are the basic symbols of the power to live and under these signs Jesus, the Lord of Life, is
himself present to give us eternal life.
- In a hospital it would be appropriate when possible to have the sick who are able and who
wish to listen to the mass in the chapel on closed-circuit radio or television then to be brought
communion immediately after the mass.
REFERENCES
https://www.chausa.org/docs/default-source/health-progress/spirituality-and-ethics-in-healthcare-pdf.pdf?
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