Editing Anointing of the sick (section)

===Anglican churches===
The 1552 and later editions of the [[Book of Common Prayer]] omitted the form of anointing given in the original (1549) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.<ref name=ODCC/> The Book of Common Prayer (1662) and the proposed revision of 1928 include the "visitation of the sick" and "communion of the sick" (which consist of various prayers, exhortations and psalms).

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace" which is the definition of a sacrament. The Catechism of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America includes Unction of the Sick as among the "other sacramental rites" and it states that unction can be done with oil or simply with laying on of hands.<ref>Episcopal Church, 1979 Book of Common Prayer, p.860</ref> The rite of anointing is included in the Episcopal Church's "Ministration to the Sick".<ref>Episcopal Church, 1979 Book of Common Prayer, p.456</ref>

Article 25 of the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]], which are one of the historical formularies of the Church of England (and as such, the Anglican Communion), speaking of the sacraments, says: "Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God."<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/articles/articles.html#25| title = Thirty-Nine Articles}}</ref>

In 1915 members of the Anglican Communion founded the [[Guild of St Raphael]], an organisation dedicated to promoting, supporting and practising Christ's ministry of healing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guild of St Raphael |url=https://www.stbreladeschurch.com/guild-of-st-raphael.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=St Brelade's Parish Church |language=en}}</ref>