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- Garvey, Brenda
Faith and healing : Helping the dying find peace
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article36792
- Author
- Gaitskell, Victoria
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2012 April
- Author
- Gaitskell, Victoria
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2012 April
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 6
- Notes
- Brenda Garvey is an honorary lay pastoral assistant at St. Cuthbert's, Oakville, Ontario. She is also multifaith chaplain at Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga, and a licensed lay anointer. "In 2006, Trillium hired Garvey to assist patients with cancer and other terminal illnesses and their families. 'Death is as much a sacred miracle as birth', says Garvey, who notes that when she anoints Anglicans with the same oil with which they've been baptized, 'they feel they have come full circle and been touched by God again'. As Garvey sees it, her job is to help people of different faith, or of no faith, have 'a good death experience'. By offering comfort and meaning, Garvey helps them 'to be present in each precious last moment'."
- Author "is a journalist and parishioner at St. Cuthbert's, Oakville, Ont."
- Subjects
- Spiritual healing - Anglican Church of Canada
- Healing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Imposition of hands - Anglican Church of Canada
- Unction - Anglican Church of Canada
- Garvey, Brenda
- Death - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the dying - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the terminally ill - Anglican Church of Canada