Every 4th Sunday of the month, we honor our commitment to the diocese’s (and St. John’s) priority of Justice by celebrating a Racial Healing Eucharist. This liturgy includes collects and reflections celebrating saints who worked for Racial Justice in the Episcopal calendar of Saints. Each liturgy begins with an Acknowledgment of Indigenous Peoples’ Land and includes a Litany for Racial Reconciliation.
This Sunday, August 23 at 8am and 10am, we will be honoring we will be honoring Florence Nightingale, with guest preacher Dr. Tamara Zurakowski.
Tamara writes:
I am not a cradle Episcopalian, being raised as a Presbyterian in the Calvinist tradition. My first adventure in the Episcopal church came in college. I was confirmed in the Episcopal church while in graduate school in Ohio, and have been a member in a variety of parishes as Shirley and I moved about as we pursued our careers and raised a daughter. I learned something new in each parish, taking on roles in choirs, altar guilds, committees, and vestry. Since arriving at St. John’s , I have been active in the choir, altar guild, Vestry, and as a verger.
When not at St. John’s, I occupy myself as professor and director of the entry-level Master of Science in Nursing program at St. Catherine University. Shirley and I have been married since 1989, meeting during our PhD program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. We share our home with a loveable, but eccentric, English Toy Spaniel named Katie. Our adult daughter, SarahElizabeth, owns a farm in Ft. Ann, New York, where she and her partner raise Welsh ponies, some kind of sheep, a few chickens, four goats, and three cats.
