In the Church's Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, throughthe ministry of the priest, it is Jesus who touches the sick to heal them from sin – and sometimes even from physical ailment. His cures were signs of the arrival of the Kingdom of God. The core message of his healing tells us of his plan to conquer sin and death by his dying and rising.

The Rite of Anointing tells us there is no need to wait until a person is at the point of death to receive the Sacrament. A careful judgment about the serious nature of the illness is sufficient.

When the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is given, the hoped-for effect is that, if it be God's will, the person be physically healed of illness. But even if there is no physical healing, the primary effect of the Sacrament is a spiritual healing by which the sick person receives the Holy Spirit's gift of peace and courage to deal with the difficulties that accompany serious illness or the frailty of old age.

~from the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults | en español

The priests of St. James the Greater and Epiphany of Our Lord encourage you to reach out to us before major surgieries so that we can perform the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick before the surgiery.  We also encourage you to alert us to any hospital stays or long term illnesses so that we may give you the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick when appropriate.  We also encourage you to work with a hospital's pastoral staff.  They maybe able to assit you in finding a priest for the anointing before one of us can arrive. Finally if there is a true Sacramental Emergency please call the parish office and follow the prompts to reach our answering service who will then reachout and get in touch with us.  

Not onlydoes it [the Sacrament of Penance] free us from our sins but it also challenges us to have the same kind of compassion and forgiveness for those who sin against us.  We are liberated to be forgivers.  We obtain new insight into the words of the Prayer of St. Francis: "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Jesus entrusted the ministry of reconciliation to the Church.  The Sacrament of Penance is God's gift to us so that any sin committed after Baptism can be forgiven.  In confession we have the opportunity to repent and recover the grace of friendship with God. It is a holy moment in which we place ourselves in his presence and honestly acknowledge our sins, especially mortal sins.  With absolution, we are reconciled to God and the Church. The Sacrament helps us stay close to the truth that we cannot live without God. "In him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). 

~from the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults | en español

Reconciliaton Times
Saturday Morning 7:30-8:20 AM at St. James 
Thursday Evening 7:10-7:50 PM at Epiphany of Our Lord.