Repeating of Extreme Unction

Extreme unction prepares a sick person to face his judgment. If a person who has received this sacrament recovers from his sickness, he must some day come again into danger of death. Andhe will need again the strengthening of soul afforded by extremeunction. Thus the sacrament of extreme unction can be received morethan once.

But a person does not receive extreme unction more than once while he is in the same danger. He may receive it more than once in the same sickness, for a sickness may continue for a long time, with only now and again a period of realperil. A sick person, therefore, may receive extreme unction in each new danger. Indeed, it is the practice of the Church, in case of a person continuing in serious illness without showing much change, to permit the administering of extreme unction once amonth. For, after a month of serious sickness with no marked improvement, a person may well be considered to be in a new danger,a more immediate peril of death.