Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner | Women's Voices For Change

On Emotional Health: The Need to Say Goodbye

By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner

I often have to tell the loved ones of those who are dying to assure their dying loved one that they will be fine. I have been astonished by the human capacity to delay death until the assurances have been spoken.

The Message of Easter Is Mercy

By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner

Pope Francis delivered his first Sunday Angelus prayer and address from his papal apartment on Sunday, March 17. He said, "God never tires of forgiving us, but we sometimes tire of asking Him to forgive us . . . Let us never tire of asking God’s forgiveness.”

An Episcopal Priest Confronts Loss

By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner

I was told that one of our parishioners, Kristen, was outside in her car with her 6-year-old son. Her husband had died a few hours before, during a minor outpatient procedure. At the age of 51 he had gone into cardiac arrest, and they had not been able to revive him. Kristen wanted to bring her son by the church to talk to me because she was so afraid of saying the wrong thing about his father’s death and about heaven.