Spiritual significance of the sacrament of anointing of the sich in hospital pastoral care

Diplomski rad analizira suvremenu situaciju i izazove s kojima se susreću bolesnici i djelatnici na pastoralnom području bolničkog dušobrižništva iz teološko-pastoralne, a napose filozofsko-teodicejske perspektive nastojeći pronaći sofrologijski smisao patnje i boli. Pritom rad ukazuje na važnost sakramenta bolesničkog pomazanja te govori o nerijetko povijesno pogrešno interpretiranom tumačenju samog sakramenta koji je iznimno važan u kontekstu bolničkog dušobrižništva, palijativne skrbi i hospicijskog pokreta. Diplomski rad želi ukazati na poteškoće u samom pastoralu bolesnika jer nerijetko ni sami bolesnici u strahu od neminovno nadolazeće smrti ne žele primiti sakramente ispovijedi i bolesničkog pomazanja, dok se s druge strane događa da nemaju ni pravodobne mogućnosti, ako bolnički kapelan obavlja još neke druge službe te se ne može potpuno posvetiti bolnici ili hospicijima te na taj način biti nada i utjeha u trenutcima umiranja.This graduate thesis analyzes the current situation and challenges faced by patients and staff in the field of hospital pastoral care from a theological-pastoral, and especially philosophical-theodical perspective, trying to find a sophrological meaning of suffering and pain. The paper points out the importance of the sacrament of anointing of the sick and speaks of the not infrequently historically misinterpreted explication of the sacrament itself, the one sacrament that is extremely important in the context of hospital pastoral care, palliative care and the hospice movement. The thesis wants to point out the difficulties in the pastoral care of patients, because often the patients themselves, in fear of inevitable death, do not want to receive the sacraments of confession and anointing of the sick, while on the other hand it may occur that they do not have timely opportunities if the hospital chaplain also has some other duties and is not able to fully dedicate himself to the hospital or hospices and thus be a hope and consolation in moments of dying