If you read the Bible, you will see the practice of anointing with oil from the days of Moses down to the Apostles. It was meant as a ceremony that sealed someone to a certain mission or duty - in the case of the sons of Aaron it was to be priests. It is also used in calling kings in Israel.
Though I do not know everything, in my experience we use anointing today according to the direction found in James 5:14:
14Is any asick among you? let him call for the belders of the church; and let them cpray over him, danointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
In that anointing we use special consecrated oil, which is ordinary olive oil you buy from the store that then goes through a ceremony to become consecrated or set apart for the healing of the sick.
I went into this a little more in depth in a earlier entry for Administration to the Sick, so I am just going to say how amazing it is that this church is so biblical. Every now and then, if you are paying attention, you can pick up on these things that were true and used thousands of years ago, and though the implementation may have changed, we are still using them. The gospel has always been true.
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