The rite is old and its reputation is a mistake. James 5 tells the sick to call the elders to anoint them with oil, and the church did that for a thousand years before the practice narrowed to the deathbed and picked up the name extreme unction, which finished the job by convincing families that calling the priest meant giving up. The Second Vatican Council renamed it the Anointing of the Sick in 1972 and pushed it back toward illness generally, including before surgery and in old age, and it is now commonly given in group services in a parish. The Greek rite in its full form uses seven priests, seven readings and seven anointings; in practice one priest does it. The oil is blessed by a bishop, usually at the Chrism Mass in Holy Week, and kept in the parish for the year.