Grace Pritchard Burson

  • Pastor

    The Rev. Grace Pritchard Burson is a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, a branch of the ... View Post

    Pastor

  • Farmer

    As a seminary student, Grace experienced a crisis of faith related to the slow-motion environmental ... View Post

    Farmer

  • Writer

    When Grace was a child, much of her time was spent at her mother’s Hermes manual typewriter (and ... View Post

    Writer

  • Doula

    Check out Grace's full doula business website here! Grace has always been fascinated by birth and ... View Post

    Doula

Petty Cheating Jesus vs. the Enemy

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All Saints’, Dorval Great Vigil of Easter, Year C April 19, 2025 Satan being super cranky about being stomped on by Jesus as he harrows Hell This past Wednesday, I was trying to get ready for the Holy Week services and activities and the following things all happened within the space of a couple hours: Google Forms kept eating the… View Post

The word we don’t say

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All Saints’, Dorval Good Friday, Year C April 18, 2025 Photo: Angela Recine-Estima The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood – Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. (T. S. Eliot, of course.) I find myself… View Post

Palms, cross, serpent, skull

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All Saints’, Dorval Palm Sunday, Year C April 13, 2025 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Last month, my friend and colleague Jes Kast, a United minister in Pennsylvania, went to the Philadelphia art museum and saw the artwork… View Post

Service, sacrifice, sanctity

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent V, Year C April 6, 2025 The altar of repose, 2024 Service. Sacrifice. Sanctity. These are the three concepts that kept coming to mind as I re-read this week’s Gospel passage. Mary serves Jesus by anointing him – thus setting the example that he will follow just a few days later when he washes his disciples’… View Post

Funeral sermon for Michael Westwood

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All Saints’, Dorval Michael Westwood April 5, 2025 Meg and Michael’s names on the list of donors to the St. Mark’s organ restoration project in 2011. “For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” If you’re a musician like Michael Westwood was, you’ve already starting humming Handel’s music to these words…. View Post