"The new Rite of Anointing encourages the whole Church to recognize healing prayer as a normal factor in our Christian lives." With this as their starting point, authors Barbara Shlemon and Matthew and Dennis Linn, S.J., demonstrate the close relationship between healing prayer and anointing. They do this in a step-by-step comparison of their own experience with healing prayer to the prayers, actions and expectations of the new Rite of Anointing. In the process they show how the revival of the healing ministry today fits into the original meaning and historical development of the revised sacrament of the sick. Their theme is a simple one: any crippling physical illness is an opportunity for emotional, spiritual and especially physical healing, a theme they support with moving examples of healing from their own experiences.