Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church

At Saint Gregory’s, pastoral care includes learning and applying care for the dying based on congregation member Megory Anderson’s book, Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life. Megory’s Sacred Dying Foundation is dedicated to challenging the way our society experiences death and dying. The Foundation’s primary goal is to return the sacred to the act of dying by serving those who are at the end-of-life. The Sacred Dying Foundation is also committed to changing the paradigm of how we approach death as a whole through educating the public on new models of death and dying for our society.

Examples of this type of approach can be seen in Saint Gregory’s choir ministry of singing to the dying, in our program “Stewardship of Last Things” and in the community’s pastoral and ritual presence with those who are at life’s end. Saint Gregory’s application of Sacred Dying Philosophy makes us a model for other congregations regarding service to members at the end-of-life.