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Objection 1: It would seem that those who are deformed should not be
anointed in those parts. For just as this sacrament demands a certain
disposition on the part of the recipient, viz. that he should be
sick, so it demands that he should be anointed in a certain part of the
body. Now he that is not sick cannot be anointed. Therefore neither
can he be anointed who lacks the part to be anointed.
Objection 2: Further, a man born blind does not sin by his sight.
Yet in the anointing of the eyes mention is made of sins by sight.
Therefore this anointing ought not to be applied to one born blind,
and in like manner as regards the other senses.
On the contrary, Bodily deformity is not an impediment to any other
sacrament. Therefore it should not be an impediment to this one. Now
each of the anointings is essential to the sacrament. Therefore all
should be applied to those who are deformed.
I answer that, Even those who are deformed should be anointed, and
that as near as possible to the part which ought to have been anointed.
For though they have not the members, nevertheless, they have, at
least radically, the powers of the soul, corresponding to those
members, and they may commit inwardly the sins that pertain to those
members, though they cannot outwardly.
This suffices for the Replies to the Objections.
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